The Role You Were Born to Play:  Leadership Lessons from the Silver Screen

SUMMARY

Ladership lessons straight from the box office to your office. Through an innovative combination of movie clips, experiential exercises and discussion, participants will learn eight essential leadership qualities.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Suitable for all women who wish to improve their leadership capabilities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

   1. Learn eight essential leadership qualities
   2. Gain confidence in their professional and personal lives
   3. Discover their own unique leadership style and voice

SPECIFIC BENEFITS

  1. Participants will develop awareness of their innate leadership strengths & the practical application of these strengths
  2. Training will deepen and reinforce participants’ learning through emotional experiences and exercises
  3. Participants will obtain and practice skills to develop confidence in leading others

WHY THE TOPIC IS ESSENTIAL

Becoming an effective leader can be learned. Concentrating on these core personal qualities will provide participants with a powerful foundation for leadership in a variety of situations.

The Alpha Mare: Women and Power

SUMMARY

As women we sometimes struggle with our own legitimate power.

Because we don’t want to be perceived as demanding or hard to please, we often or feel hesitant to embrace a powerful role. Even the strongest women sometimes perceive power as being negative.

In our desire to be seen as fair and compassionate, we may give away our appropriate power, settle for someone else’s version of what we should or shouldn’t do, or behave as though we have no choice.

Using metaphors from the equine world, Darcie explores the issue of women and power, inspiring women to feel comfortable with power and use their power for the greater good of their employees, their families and their communities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

   1. To help women get comfortable with their own legitimate and appropriate power
   2. To help women see the many ways in which they may avoid, abdicate or give away their power
   3. To inspire women to embrace their power and use their power honorably

SPECIFIC BENEFITS

  1. Women will develop a new sense of awareness about how they perceive and think about power
  2. Women will be able to identify ways in which they avoid or abandon appropriate power
  3. Women will learn to shift their perception of power from negative to positive and become better leaders as a result of their new awareness
  4. Women will be inspired to see that it can be an honor to be powerful with they use their power in a way that serves the greater good

WHY THE TOPIC IS ESSENTIAL

  • Women often unconsciously associate the word “power” with negative experiences.  Yet, when used appropriately, power is a necessary and valuable asset.
  • It’s not until we are comfortable with our own power that we can embrace our power and feel comfortable in a leadership role.
  • Having a deep self-awareness of our own personal power and how we can use it for the greater good fosters honorable and humble leadership qualities in women, which they can exercise in their businesses, their communities and their families.

Be The Orchestra Conductor: Your Real Role as a Leader

SUMMARY

Think of your company as an orchestra. You are playing the violin, the trumpet, the clarinet and the drums (even the triangle!). But your real role as a business owner is to be the orchestra conductor.

As small business owners, we wear so many hats that it's really easy to lose track of our real role:  leading the company.
 
If you want your company to grow, you need to learn what a conductor does and when she does it. That's the only way to get the best music from the entire orchestra.

Drawing on years of experience of working with hundreds of female business owners, Darcie will lead workshop participants to understand the tools and the process to bring out the best in others, get effective execution and create a culture of accountability.   

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Learn to focus on results (rather than activity) and on the specific key indicators they need to measure in their businesses
  2. To learn the essentials of personal accountability and how to develop a culture of joint accountability in their companies
  3. Understand the principles of personal and joint accountability to achieve their desired results
  4. To learn the components of a successful strategic plan and ninety day plan

SPECIFIC BENEFITS

Participants will learn to:
   1. Replace"doing" with "leading"
   2. Focus on outcomes, not activities
   3. Act on an intentional growth strategy
   4. Create accountability for herself and her team
   5. Understand why she MUST focus time on her business, not just her clients

WHY THIS TOPIC IS ESSENTIAL

  • Many small business owners falsely believe that being a leader means having the best ideas.
  • While training on leadership qualities & and character traits is important, many business owners have never been trained on how to lead the company with a systemized process to get plans in place and executed.
  • Most small business owners do not understand the importance of having a strategic plan or are intimidated by the concept.  If they do have a plan, it often sits on a shelf and gathers dust.
  • Participants learn how to develop a strategic plan, a ninety-day plan, and how integrate the plan into day to day operations.  They will understand how to use their plan to inspire increased employee commitment and accountability.

The Ladies Room: Women Working With Women

SUMMARY

With refreshing honesty and candor, Darcie explores the stereotypes, beliefs and behaviors that can cause us to be our own worst enemies as we work with and for women.

Drawing on insights learned from eleven years of consulting exclusively with women business owners and executives, Darcie inspires women to avoid oversimplification and identify the real issues that get labeled as simply “too much estrogen.”

THREE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. To identify the often-negative stereotypes about women working with women, how they get created, and how we perpetuate them
  2. To understand how gender differences play out in the workplace
  3. To transform negative stereotypes into attitudes, expectations and behaviors that foster positive, healthy working relationships between women in the workplace

SPECIFIC BENEFITS

  1. Women will learn to look more deeply into workplace dynamics and identify the real issues that get oversimplified and labeled as “too much estrogen”
  2. Women will see how our natural predisposition for relationships and empathy can work for them, or against them, depending on their expectations and behavior
  3. Women will be inspired to take personal responsibility to transform negative stereotypes into positive, and transform unhappy work environments into productive and rewarding workplaces  that bring out the best in ourselves and others, without giving up our feminine side

 WHY THE TOPIC IS ESSENTIAL

  • Through our own behavior and oversimplified assumptions, women often participate in perpetuating negative stereotypes about women working with women.
  • Gaining a deep self-awareness of our own communication styles, expectations and assumptions helps us transform those stereotypes from negative to positive and fosters productive, healthy, rewarding workplaces with predominately female employees and female leadership.