Programme Description

The Women Leadership Development Executive Programmes are exclusively tailored to enable astute women executives’ opportunity to apply leading edge knowledge; experience and industry insight from our highly charged workshop climate.

The programme helps you and your organization excel by developing you into a highly effective, visionary leader. Throughout the course, you will address key business and personal leadership challenges, understand how to analyze and approach them as opportunities, and return to the workplace ready to lead at the next level!

To grow into the leader you want to be and the leader that your enterprise needs it is important to assess your current role and capabilities, and build on them through an open and honest solicitation of professional feedback and coaching.
Synergy gained through charged interactions, practical case studies and our expertise in executive education.

Positions women executive’s ready, to address the chaotic nature of the global business climate in ways that innovatively redefine the sphere of influence your organization establishes in industry.
On completing the programme with us, you will be able to join the Women’s Executive Education Programme Alumni (WEEPA), and become part of a vibrant women leader’s executive’s regional network. Through the (WEEPA) you will be able to network with members and peers from over 15 SADC countries and continue a partnership with us that will have long lasting benefit for you and your organization.

Benefits

Knowledge of the dynamics involved in successful negotiation and the skills to develop expertise as a value creating negotiator.
Ability to optimize team effectiveness through analyzing team composition, leveraging information sharing, and resolving leadership challenges
Skills to interpret the subtle messages of power, identify and understand management styles and their organizational impact, and manage meetings involving many individuals with different goals and agendas
A deeper understanding of social networks and techniques to influence individuals and groups.
Expertise to address company challenges and individual needs; to achieve your business goals, you depend on the actions and the passion of individuals.
By giving your team members the scope to develop themselves, you ensure they have the ability to develop your organization.
You increase productivity, retention and satisfaction, and build a business that each of them can be proud of.
Build enterprise proficiency through results based feedback
Following our Training Impact Analysis delegates who have attended the Women Development Program demonstrate increased proficiency in implementation of key workshop take aways as shown in the graph below.

Who should attend?

Executives attending typically have several years of senior management experience. They work in companies of different sizes, representing widely diverse industries and coming from all around the SADC Region.
Past participants have included:

• Corporate Women Executives
• Managers and Directors of Business units
• Women Executives poised to take on leadership positions.
• Newly appointed Female Managers

The broad, regional representation offers an unequalled opportunity to share and expand world views and enhance multicultural understanding, alongside exploring modern business issues
The graph below projects a typical mix of delegates by function for Women Leadership Development Programmes in 2010.

Delivery Model

Our learning model is characterized as being interactive and dynamic. It taps into the experience; insights and knowledge which enable women participants to develop a shared language of enterprise requirements and gain an understanding of the company's mission, values, businesses, challenges, and opportunities.
This sense of open peer to peer camaraderie helps build effective professional and personal peer networks that are based on trust, communication, and cooperation.

Accreditation

Our workshop programs are created in line with contemporary trends; aligning enterprise knowledge development strategies and the women career development needs. All the workshop modules are aligned to SAQA Unit Standards.

Programme Workshop Series

The program focus is on specific behaviors that are critical in effective leadership. As you attend through the integrated program sessions, you will develop the mindset and competencies necessary to transform you from an efficient worker to an effective, successful, and valuable leader. You will be positioned to integrate your new skills with your specific organizational challenges, and thereby return to the workplace with an immediately actionable plan for contributing in strategic ways. Major themes include:

Programme Schedule

All our Women Leadership Development Executive Programmes can be customized to address the specific needs of companies and individuals.
Whether it involves a small change to an existing programme or a fully tailor-made course, all programmes are designed and delivered by recognized leaders in their fields.

Register

Please complete the online registration form of your program of interest.