The 5th Women in Leadership Summit 2017

Building Self-Confidence - How to Put Yourself Forward to Lead

Confident, resilient leaders lead confident resilient teams.  How is it that some people exude confidence and others struggle with self-confidence and self-belief for most of their lives?  And does a nagging self-doubt put a handbrake on your leadership aspirations?

Confidence is something we can develop and grow throughout our lives. Our confidence grows when we succeed and can take a beating when we fail. When we succeed, we can build on that success to build our confidence.

Conversely, failure is also essential to our growth and development - to our skills, our confidence and personal strength. Making mistakes and failing at something, and being able to recover from this failure, emerging stronger and wiser than before, are all fundamental parts of the leadership journey.

Facing challenging situations is also a necessary part of everyday life. But when we are first faced with signs of obstacles our confidence diminishes and that all too well-known ‘fight or flight’ feeling can kick in and get in our way. Learning what it takes to build self-confidence and resilience and to trust our own decisions in the face of these challenges is a giant leap towards successful leadership.

By mastering the skills for managing your self-talk and growing your self-confidence, women who attend this workshop will be equipped with techniques to create their own leadership presence and will have strategies to face situations that don’t go according to plan with confidence and poise. Learning these skills will not only benefit our delegates, but also teaches skills which can be passed on to their teams.

Understanding Your Strengths and Weaknesses
- What type of leader are you?
- What are your strengths and areas for development?
- Embracing who you really are

Taking risks
- Learning to deal with failure
- Getting comfortable being out of your comfort zone
- Understanding how to build resilience

Managing self-confidence
- Recognising your inner critic and what it is telling you
- Replacing self-doubt with self-belief
- Developing ongoing strategies to manage your self-belief

Putting yourself forward for leadership
- Creating a vision of success
- Understanding your calling
- Developing strategies to take a leap into the future you want

A journey into leadership

Developing your own leadership style

Being comfortable outside your comfort zone

Introvert vs extrovert leadership

Seizing opportunities for career progression

Leadership is an inspiring but daunting proposition, and tackling the logistics of actually putting yourself forward for career advancement is not to be taken lightly, nor is it easy. It takes courage, confidence and dedication to establish yourself in a strong position for leadership excellence. Hard work and time is essential, but worth it when leading to further rewards. This interactive discussion panel invites together some of New Zealand's most accomplished and distinguished senior leaders to discuss key strategies used to promote themselves in the workplace. Discuss:
- The benefits of having an effective mentor
- Finding and utilising your strengths
- Effective communication and having your efforts noticed

Juggling the generations

Creating strong support groups

The leadership journey can be a lonely one with many difficult challenges. It is essential, then, to know how to build strong support groups with other leaders travelling on similar journeys. This can be in the form of mentors, sponsors and allies all with the same aim, to help one another. In advance of the Networking Session which will invite delegates to workshop their networking skills and form lasting connections, Ruth will discuss:
- Understanding the value of networking
- Empowering and encouraging other women
- Being connected with or apart of male networking and other homo-social groups

Taking ownership of your career

Everyday leadership - Looking at the smaller picture

Knowing your value and maintaining balance.

Too many women question their abilities when faced with their career opportunities. Knowing your value is important.  Having self-belief is important. Your brand is important.  And understanding your limits is essential in maintaining balance. When juggling professional and personal demands, it is difficult to know when to prioritise. Rawinia has extensive leadership experience and plays a major role with Sky Television, and will discuss how she made the most of opportunities in her career and how to maintain a healthy work/life balance in her demanding leadership role. Discuss:
- Having confidence in your abilities
- Prioritising your commitments
- Working smarter and knowing your limits

Overcoming obstacles on the road to leadership success

Developing emotional intelligence

Future directions for female leaders

This interactive discussion will allow participants to revisit the key topics and themes touched on throughout the two day forum. Delegates will have the opportunity to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses as a leader, and prioritise a set of changes they can make to improve their effectiveness as leaders. Explore:
- Essential leadership lessons for aspiring female leaders to take the next step
- Success factors for finding your voice, influencing and initiating change
- Support systems for emerging leaders: coaching and mentoring

Maximising Your Team’s Potential - Pride, Praise and Professional Recognition

Successful leaders effectively motivate, encourage and instill vision at both an individual and organisational level. Creating a team environment is an effective way of instilling pride and must promote a desire for success and inspire your team to achieve. At the core of this vision, there are three critical ‘P’s’: Pride, Praise and Professional Recognition. By creating a strong, positive and hard-working working environment, you will then naturally attract and retain strong, positive and hard-working candidates.

Not many individuals are encouraged when working alone. Being a part of a high-achieving working environment with reward benefits, professional recognition and genuine gratitude is essential. Working, not only for ourselves, but for a bigger picture, goes a long way when motivating a team.

By constructively developing people beyond their current skill set, confidence and knowledge, we help them to become a more valuable member of the organisation and to themselves. Not only does properly developing people achieve this, but by having firm trust in them develops a more responsive, loyal team member.

By attending this workshop, you will be equipped with practical tools to develope your team effectively and instill pride in their work. You will be taught ways to create loyal and hard-working team members and techniques to becoming a strong, positive influence and deliver value to your business.

Motivating and encouraging your team
- Instilling pride
- Developing hard-working individuals
- Techniques to building a supportive team environment

Maximising performance
- The use of praise to encourage hard work
- Techniques to developing loyal team members
- Fostering your team’s strengths

Maintaining a positive influence
- Effective communication with your team
- Being a reliable and effective leader
- Practicing integrity

Coaching and developing others
- Developing trust
- Encouraging promotion
- Providing effective benefits and reward systems