Women Career Development Program
One of the drivers of the gender pay gap is that women are not progressing in the workplace as fully as their talents would allow. The core goal of this program has been designed around helping women, who are on the career ladder and wanting to progress, further their careers and make the best use of their skills & experience.
Outcomes and Capabilities
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Outcomes
The specialization focuses on the fundamental skills which are so key in your professional development. Upon completion of the virtual sessions, you will have learned fundamental skills in effective business communications, building your brand and network, building your personal resiliency, effective presentation skills, enhancing virtual collaboration, emotional intelligence, managing conflict, the power of teamwork, understanding communication styles, and influencing skills.
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Capabilities
Verbal Communication | Written Communication | Stakeholder Management | Personal Resiliency | Emotional Intelligence | Listening & Questioning | Teamwork | Conflict Management | Influence | Presentation Skills
Course 2
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Summary
This class focuses on the fundamentals of effective presentation skills. Outcomes: By the end of this session, you will be able to: Tell your story effectively to and get the desired impact | Engage and handle your audience confidently | Tailor your message to different audiences | Determine how to choose the right visual aids | Understand more about physical attributes of the presenter Capabilities: 。Verbal Communication i.e. Ability to deliver messages in clear and compelling language with appropriate tone | Engages/Interacts others through active listening and acknowledging other’s concerns/perspective | Summarizes discussion or audience’s perspective to confirm understanding and alignment 。Written Communication i.e Ability to create executive summaries and communications targeted towards senior stakeholders | Ability to write policies, standards, and/or procedures | Ability to write with clarity, conciseness, and professionalism 。Presentation Skills | Ability to create presentation (oral and written) across various levels (peers, manager, and stakeholders) | Ability to deliver in person and virtual presentation to senior management and stakeholders | Skilled in design of presentation using standard office software applications
Course 4
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Fundamental class discussing, why you collaborate, how to collaborate, collective impact, providing Early Talent the foundational skills needed to effectively benefit from the Power of Teamwork. Outcomes: Understand the benefits of collaboration in the workplace / Understand how to improve individual contribution to a common goal | Understand how to develop interdependency within a team | Be able to define commitment and buy-in to end goal | Understand how to build a relationship Capabilities: Teamwork i.e. Accepts responsibility for individual and team successes by promoting an inclusive environment | Works with others collaboratively to integrate ideas, achieve common goals, and enable each person to fully contribute to the team | Able to collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups
Course 6
Course 1
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This class focuses on an introduction to personal branding and networking. Outcomes: By the end of this session you will be able to: Define what networking is and how to introduce yourself effectively (including how do divide up your time / network agendas) | Explain the benefits of networking | Understand how to take a strategic approach to building and maintaining your network | Describe how to enter a room with confidence and approach people you don’t know (virtually and in-person) | Use body language & open questions to make your audience feel at ease | Understand how to manage your brand
Course 3
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This class focuses on the fundamentals of managing conflict, including determining your conflict management style to help you better negotiate and find a solution. Outcomes: After completing this course you will be able to better understand your conflict management style and use this knowledge to be more effective in: Improving the ability to negotiate results | Holding meaningful conversations with clients to improve the client experience | Identifying opportunities that come from conflict and difficult interactions Capabilities: Conflict Management i.e. Expresses views clearly and firmly using non-confrontational language | Identifies conflicts of interest that can occur within teams and conflicts that may arise as a result of business decisions | Facilitates discussion between the conflicting parties and create win-win solutions using collaboration or negotiation strategies
Course 5
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Our Professional Skills Program includes virtual offerings that are tailored to the core professional skills that are critical to your success in a corporate, and personal setting. Learning to build your personal resiliency may sound like a self-help topic but it is essential to your well-being in general and will also help you in your professional life. Outcomes: By the end of this session, you will be able to: define resiliency – what it means to be resilient and why it is important, discuss the impact of change and uncertainty on human behaviors, outline the 3 dimensions of personal resiliency (care, cope, and connect), understand anytime – anywhere mindfulness, and commit to the resiliency challenge. Capabilities: Personal Resiliency | Displays calmness and poise during difficult business situations and continues to drive outcomes | Maintains quality when handling multiple tasks and projects under stressful situations or tight timelines | Maintains work / life balance
Course 7
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This course will help you identify strategies for enhancing your emotional intelligence that you can apply to your work and personal life to make a difference in your performance and relationships. Outcomes: Participants will be able to define and describe EI and its key components, assess their own emotional intelligence, identify areas where they may need to enhance their EI, identify their emotional triggers and respond with greater self-control and resilience, and develop awareness of the others’ emotions in order to respond with greater empathy. Capabilities: Emotional Intelligence | Growth Mindset & Personal Resiliency
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What does it mean to influence? In this course, you will learn the keys to essential influencing skills. Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, you will be better able to define influencing and its benefits, identify key attributes of an effective influencer, discuss approaches and tactics used in influencing, describe how social currencies can be used to influence others, and finally create an action plan for what you can do now. Capabilities: Influence | Ability to influence or persuade others to develop mutually beneficial/acceptable solutions with facts and data | Ability to explore creative alternatives and implications with parties/stakeholders involved in the negotiation | Engages others through appropriate use of facts, convincing examples, and direct persuasion to support productive discussions and relationships