Managing Up and Mentoring Below: How Today’s Women Leaders Do It All
Leadership development is an integral part of pursuing long-term professional success
and advancing your career. While functional business skills can be taught,
cultivating
practices to manage effective teams and global organizations is less straight-forward.
This panel will provide participants with the opportunity to learn how professional
women
have adopted leadership styles to enhance their management strengths, improve their
weaknesses and serve as role models. Panelists will share practical perspectives from
their experiences, allowing participants to optimize their potential and strengths as leaders.
Social Responsibility: Strong Ethics, Smart Business
Sustainable enterprises as those that measure success in terms of a “triple bottom line”:
financial
profitability, ecological integrity, and social equity. Attendees will gain an
understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) best practices and current trends.
This panel will include women executives who have challenged traditional conventions
and integrated programs to promote sustainability, as well as suggestions and thoughts
on how conference participants can include CSR in their lives.
Creating Value and Growth Opportunities Through Innovation
Simply having great ideas is not enough. In order for companies to benefit from great
ideas, these ideas must be cultivated, encouraged, voiced, and realized. Women can be
instrumental
in fostering such innovation within companies. How can women in business
maximize their ability to innovate? As leaders, how can women instill a culture that encourages
innovation? This panel will highlight new opportunities and advice on how to incorporate an
innovative mindset into business endeavors. Learn how to overcome the usual stumbling
blocks to innovation by attending this inspiring panel.
Catch Me If You Can: The Female Entrepreneur’s Mantra
According to Forbes magazine, women entrepreneurs abound. In fact, every day an astounding
420 women establish their own business.* A number of factors explain this high rate, but
regardless of the reasons for their entrepreneurship, each of these women face a
difficult,
though rewarding, challenge. Starting a new organization requires vision,
passion, and
decision-making abilities. Learn from our panel of entrepreneurs about the benefits
and challenges of taking the initiative and venturing out on your own.
“Perfecting Presentational Performance”
Workshop presented by Peggy Droz
Based in part on the Stanislavski “Method” style of acting, the workshop will include:
A series of physical and mental agility/warm-up exercises.
Presentations by participants of the
pre-assigned “homework” assignments: A one-minute speech (this will be timed!) for a
local civic organization of the participant’s choice about a company for which she works (can
be a real company or can be imaginery). The purpose of the speech is to give the audience a
good overall view of what the company does and her role in the company. In-class
“surprise” assignments based on the presentations.
A small acting exercise that will help individual participants practice a more genuine delivery style
for business presentations. (Acting exercises to make you more genuine? Sounds
like a
contradiction, doesn’t it? You’ll see that by tapping into your own life store of memories,
you’ll be able to make your presentations, particularly intros and “outros”, richer and more vibrant.)
What each participant needs to bring to the workshop: