University of Southern Maine

Women's Ways of Leading

In this changing and challenging economic climate, a new style of leadership is emerging - one that calls for leaders and organizations to operate more effectively within looser matrix structures. Leaders are being recognized for their intuitive abilities, keen listening skills, their proficiency at multi-tasking, reading people's needs and emotions and building relationships. For women leaders, many of these skills are second nature. As a result, women leaders are increasingly being seen as a competitive advantage within organizations and are being leveraged accordingly.

Building off the most recent research and the experience of leaders in the room, this highly interactive and informative one-day session is an invitation for women managers and leaders from all sectors to explore the strengths women naturally bring to leadership roles and to discuss ways to unleash and harness those skills to increase personal effectiveness and ultimately, organizational success. Participants will consciously create and hone their own leadership styles and perceptions and will walk away with a number of resources, concrete strategies, and specific techniques to support them as they seek to apply them in their business and leadership endeavors.

Specifically, participants will:

• be oriented to a number of models of women's ways of leading
• gain a greater appreciation of how women leaders are contributing to the financial success of organizations in concrete and measurable ways
• explore the most common traps women leaders can fall into
• develop strategies to increase effectiveness and more fully leverage innate abilities

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$185 (6 contact hours/ 0.6 CEUs)
Abromson Center, 88 Bedford Street, USM Portland campus