For Women Only: Leadership and Management Skills
Date: To Be Determined
Time: 3.5 hours
Place: FHSU Memorial Union or onsite at your location
Overview
Women comprise close to 50% of the U.S. labor force but are faced with many challenges their male counterparts are not. Only 15% of women hold senior management positions, and according to trends indicate that this percentage is starting to drop after a decade-long increase. Today's organizations demand both leadership and management skills in order to achieve sustainable result. For women, these skills have a more significant impact on one's career than men.
Learning Objectives
During the workshop, you will:
- Examine leadership and management skills and help develop competencies needed to meet the challenges women face in the workplace
- Establish the distinction between leading and managing
- Identify skills and competencies needed to be effective as both a leader and manager
- Develop individual and group actions needed to achieve performance goals
Target Audience
This workshop is for women currently leading, managing or supervising as well as women who aspire to increase their leadership-management skills to be more effective in their current positions. Sorry men, as the title suggests, women only in this workshop!
Your Facilitator
LeAnn Brown, SPHR currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Leadership Studies at Fort Hays State University. She teaches courses in leadership and team dynamics and serves as a consultant with the FHSU Management Development Center. Prior to working in higher education, Brown worked in the corporate and non-profit sectors in human resources and organizational development. She has conducted leadership and management workshops for corporations, universities, churches and non-profit organizations in Oregon, Washington and Kansas. Ms. Brown is pursuing her PhD in Global Leadership from the Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech), specializing in organizational management.