This presentation explores why businesses need to take gender diversity seriously to remain competitive and sustainable. It also introduces our women's development programme that is designed to create strong, confidence and equipped women leaders. For more information go to bitly.com/womenwithimpact

1. Women with Impact
Programme: An Introduction
Creating Strong, Confident and
Equipped Female Leaders

2. A Collaborative Programme By
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Our Programme in a Nutshell:
Personal development training that will ensure that women feel valued,
personally aware, better informed and who can support cross functional
collaboration.
Continued support to the delegates to improve decision making, assist
innovation and achieve business goals.
A talent review and return on investment assessment to provide the business
with a better understanding of the value that the programme has achieved.

3. Who’s It For?
Individuals who:
• Are at a point of transition in their career and are unsure about what to do
• Feel they have more to offer but not sure how to change things
• Suffer from feelings of overwhelm or being out of their depth at work
• Lack a sense of direction or focus
• Struggle to communicate confidently with certain people or in certain situations
• Are experiencing ongoing stress
• Have a lot of potential, but need some help to unlock it
Organisations that:
• Are experiencing a period of change or growth and need to ensure they are
utilising the potential of all of their employees
• Have talented female employees that they could not afford to lose
• Have a male dominated senior management team and so missing out on the
well documented business benefits of having diversity at the top
• Looking for an innovative and cost effective way to gain a competitive
advantage

4. Why Women Matter
It is possible that your organisation could be unintentionally disengaging, and
restricting your talented female employees. If this is the case it could be affecting your
bottom line. Here’s why.....
•Extensive research has shown that businesses with gender diversity at the top
perform significantly better and are more financially successful. (McKinsey & co)
Developing your female employees could improve YOUR business performance
and profitability.
•80% of consumer decisions are made by women, and yet in the UK they represent
only around 15% of executive committee members.
Do your key business decision makers represent your customer base?
•The world is facing a catastrophic shortage of highly skilled workers. Businesses
increasingly need to nurture and retain their talent to remain competitive.
Can you afford to lose talented female employees; restrict 50% of the talent
pool; and spend money on avoidable recruitment campaigns?

5. What Are The Issues?
Environmental Issues Individual Issues
Cultural expectations around childcare Less self and career confidence than men
Female leadership & communication
styles don’t fit in with prevailing culture
Communication skills that are less
effective than men's
Lack of flexible working practises Less clarity on career direction
Lack of strong female role models Sights set lower than men
Biased recruitment practises Less likely to apply for a job if didn’t meet
the job specification
Corporate culture (working practises,
performance model, language, role
models)
Less visible than men, network less, less
likely to promote their achievements and
highlight performance
Lack of awareness of difficulties women
face
Fear of failure and more hesitant to
progress
73% of women believe that there are barriers preventing
them from progressing to top management positions.
(Institute of Leadership & Management)
(Based on research from McKinsey & Co, and Institute of Leadership and Management)

6. Our Solution
We have designed a two day developmental programme to create strong,
confident and equipped female leaders - ideal to help your talented female
employees overcome internal barriers to success.
Programme Outline:
Module one: Delegates will explore leadership styles, their strength and limitations;
and how to build stronger relationships by understanding behavioural preferences.
Module two: Delegates will develop a compelling career vision to increase drive and
motivation.
Module three: Understanding the importance of exposure and image, delegates will
create their personal brand and learn key strategies to enhance their visibility to
increase success.
Module four: Delegates will learn effective communication skills to help them manage
conflict, speak with authority and lead business objectives.
Module five: Delegates will learn empowering strategies to help them manage
pressures and boost resilience.

7. Going That Extra Mile....
•Benefit from individualised support that addresses their
specific circumstances
•Embed their learning from the two day programme, thus
maximising the business’ return on investment
•Address limiting personal issues that they may feel
uncomfortable sharing with an internal coach, mentor or
manager
In addition to the two day programme, delegates will benefit from 6 months one to
one coaching or mentoring support. This will help them to:
And also....
At the end of the 6 months you will be presented with a ‘return on investment’
report setting out specifically how the programme has affected business
performance.

8. Programme Benefits
To Individual To Business
Increased confidence, resilience
and motivation
Embedded learning via 6 month
mentoring/coaching support
Feel valued, personally aware
and better informed to achieve
business goals
Increased business performance,
profits and productivity
Better able to lead their teams
and drive forward improvements
Improved retention of high
potential talent at a time of skills
shortages.
Better equipped with success
strategies to advance their
careers
Competitive advantage of a
gender diverse management
team

9. Delegate Package
•A full DISC behavioural profiling assessment and report
•2 days workshops with two expert facilitators
•6 months follow up one to one mentoring/coaching support
•Comprehensive handout pack with tools and techniques
•Personalised Success Plan
•Overnight accommodation at Cranage Hall Hotel
•All meals and refreshments
•Return on investment report for the business
•Opportunity to network with other like minded professional
women
Cranage Hall, Cheshire
INVESTMENT
£1395 (2 days
residential)
£600 (6 months
support)
TOTAL: £1995

10. Why Choose Us?
Kate Young BA (Hons); DIP NLP, Coach, Clin Hyp; MBIH (LIC)
•Qualified and experienced Coach, NLP Practitioner and DISC
behavioural profiler
•Over 12 years experience in HR
•Experienced senior manager responsible for business
transformation
•Public sector background
•Extensive workshop facilitation experience
Catherine Crockett ITIL Expert, MBA
•14 years experience in executive leadership roles
•Experienced business mentor and coach
•Experience in telecommunications, technology and customer
care sectors
•Woman in Business Award 2006

11. Take Action
Is your business ready to take the initiative?
Is your business ready to make best use of it’s female talent?
Do you want to future proof your business by nurturing ALL of your talent?
If the answer is YES, then register your high potential female delegates today.
We run our programme on a monthly basis, check website for details.
TO BOOK OR REQUEST A COMPLIMENTARY ‘TASTER’
WORKSHOP
Call Kate on 07816 837966/01889 802732 or
Catherine on 07979 953795
Complete the online form at bitly.com/womenwithimpact
Email catherine@catherinecrockett.co.uk