Women in Leadership

What is the reality of being a woman in the corporate world in 2021? In the first part of this class, you'll get a big-picture perspective on female leadership as it stands today. Then, you'll zoom into an essential skill: overcoming the communication double-bind.

• Workplace inequality: Where we've come from and where we are now
• Impact of COVID on women
• Power, influence, and authority: Knowing the difference
• Workshop: Finding your voice

Why are you showing up each day, and what do you bring to the table? In this lesson, you'll learn how to talk about your accomplishments and strengths, and take on responsibility for the work being done.

• Understand the components of a personal brand
• Create the core elements of your personal brand
• Build your brand offline and online: LinkedIn and beyond
• Connect your personal brand to your organization's brand
• Workshop: Self-promotion made easy

Understanding the impact of emotional intelligence on workplace success is one of the best things you can do for your career. Today, you'll boost your EQ skills and practice inferring emotions from behavior.

• Defining Emotional Quotient (EQ)
• How is EQ important for EQ for women leaders?
• 4 key components of EQ
• Workshop: Decoding Emotions

There are unique challenges facing women in the workplace — you know all about them, but what can you do to overcome them? In today's class, you'll build strategies to overcome the hurdles women tend to face at work, particularly now in the return to the office.

• Impact of COVID on career women
• Being OK with done, not perfect
• Setting boundaries and overcoming barriers
• Case study: McKinsey Women in the Workplace research
• Group exercise: Resilience

As the woman in the room, you're held to a higher standard than men. In this class, Kellogg's VP and Enterprise PMO will walk you through her decision-making process for delivering results and building buy-in from your team, your boss, and stakeholders.

• Reframing problems with the Root Cause framework
• Generating ideas with design thinking
• Managing stakeholders
• Methods to develop confidence to challenge status quo

As women, we hear all the time about our confidence problem. This lesson challenges that stigma. You'll get equipped with tools to communicate confidence for effective performance and career development, no matter where you are in your own self confidence journey.

• Effective voice techniques and body language "gotcha’s"
• Use power and influence to impact politics
• Developing social capital and forming alliances
• Finding mentors

Today's class is all about getting and understanding constructive feedback from your team and network. You'll also dig into the right way to be vulnerable as a woman in leadership and how to manage failure to make room for future wins.

• Importance of feedback key challenges
• Feedback methods (HIP)
• Vulnerability and failure perceptions

Giving and accepting feedback are very much acquired skills. To that end, you will spend this class refining the methods you learned in the previous lesson in a class-long workshop.

• Application: Work with a partner on the free feedback activity provided by Lilah.
• Class discussion: What did you learn? Share key takeaways from the workshop with the class

The goal of this class is for you to be on the right side of every negotiation. You'll learn how to be effective in the negotiation process and avoid being “the thirsty girl at the bar”.

• Gender gap in negotiating
• BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement)
• Key strategies for negotiations to create win/win outcomes
• Controlling emotions using prepared tactics

The right mentor can be a catalyst for building social capital and important relationships. You'll hear from a strong woman leader on why mentorships are so beneficial for women specifically, and how to pursue them the right way.

• Myths in networking
• Building a networking structure
• Selecting your Personal Board of Directors
• Syncing your digital and physical brand

You can’t be effective if you don’t take care of yourself. This class will give you data points that will help you understand the importance of managing your most precious resource: your time and energy. You'll also learn 7 hacks to be more productive, feel better, and show up as your best self.

• Aligning sleep and productivity
• Having it all...with help
• Tools and tips for balancing personal fulfillment and career

You've covered a lot of ground in the past 6 weeks. So what’s next? Lilah will guide you on future possibilities to grow as a leader and share some final thoughts on life in balance.

• Tools to design a nourish to flourish plan
• 90-day vision: Goals that are possible and exciting
• Rituals and routines to get “stuff” done
• Tackling what’s next