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To succeed in today’s competitive and rapidly changing markets, you need to adopt an entrepreneurial approach to your own career advancement. Our program has been uniquely designed and developed by University of California, Berkeley faculty—-experts on the topic of gender, negotiations and leadership. In order to maximize adaptability and resourcefulness, today's emerging leaders need to have an authentic awareness of themselves and the capacity to influence others in a mutually beneficial manner.
All successful leaders come to a point in their careers when further advancement is contingent upon further refining a set of crucial analytic and communication skills. The Women’s Executive Leadership Retreat will give you the skills needed to recognize and transcend the barriers holding you back so that you can make your career goals a reality. By examining leaders’ challenges through a feminine perspective, you will better appreciate when and why gender matters in organizational advancement. Finally, our program has partnered with the Greater Good Science Center and is uniquely focused on helping women achieve balance between career advancement and personal happiness.
Program Description
In today’s rapidly changing world, women are shattering leadership barriers in unprecedented ways. This cause for optimism brings with it a call to harness the power of gender to shape the future. The Women’s Executive Leadership Retreat is designed to poise the next generation of high potential women to succeed as individuals, team leaders, and organizational visionaries. We will provide the skills needed to develop relationships critical to success and advancement in your job. In this highly interactive, personal, and experiential retreat, you will gain a deep understanding of your leadership approach, negotiating style, beliefs and assumptions about power, and your network structure. We will build on your increased self-awareness to assist you in becoming a happier and more effective leader and negotiator
At the end of the program, participants will be awarded a certificate of completion by the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education.
Methodology
A basic assumption driving the Women’s Executive Leadership Retreat is that the most effective women leaders balance career success with personal happiness. To this end, UC Berkeley has designed an integrative program that explores the individual in relation to her environment. Building on cutting-edge social science, the program is designed to launch women already on the fast-track to success into the next stage of their career path.
Through a series of highly interactive sessions, participants will create a vision for their own success while acquiring the skills necessary to sell ideas, gain commitment, and create social networks that serve them and their goals.
Program Topics
- Raising "Human Capital" (your knowledge, skills) and leveraging "Social Capital" (your networks)
- Supporting your beliefs and assumptions to gain success
- Learning to love the game of negotiating
- Identifying and avoiding backlash
- Explore and examine who you are as a leader
- Surprises about power
- Identifying and manifesting happiness for you
Who Should Attend
- High potential women "stars" — executives, VPs and senior managers approaching the peak of their career years.
- Their partners, mentors, and coworkers, whose happiness and success are linked to these "stars."
- Members of organizations concerned with creating and maintaining a diverse and thriving workforce.
Advantages
- Gain an understanding of the five primary obstacles to women's leadership success
- Increase self-awareness and reliance on a variety of personalized leadership assets
- Develop the capacity to manifest your leadership goals through effective negotiating and an expansive view of power
- Be poised to capitalize on the science of happiness and achieving balance between career and personal life
- Gain an appreciation of when and why gender matters in organizational advancement
