Ethics Based Leadership for Women

This workshop, framed through an ethical lens, is offered to empower women who wish to consider the privileges, responsibilities, and challenges of holding leadership positions. Despite advances, women are significantly underrepresented in the workplace. In addition to external societal barriers for which many women are held back, there are many internal messages that sabotage the move into leadership. We will examine common beliefs ("I should be nice," "I am an imposter", etc.) and behaviors that can hold women back as well as offer suggestions for moving forward.

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

• Recognize the relationship of ethics to leadership.
• Identify challenges women face and suggestions for minimizing them.
• Indicate suggestions for women to overcome beliefs and barriers that are obstacles to leadership.
• Recognize skills of assertive communication.
• Select ways to give respectful feedback and handle receiving negative feedback.

Highlights

The major topics covered in this class include:

• Virtue ethics and leadership
• Challenges to leadership for women
• Self-awareness and defeating internal messages
• Imposter syndrome
• Speaking my truth, finding my voice
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Raise your hand, stand up and sit down