Inclusive Leadership: Strengthening Personal Skills and Promoting Gender Equality
Course objectives Personal Leadership Skills
At the end of the course you have:
- acquired insights in your personal value system and leadership strengths and weaknesses.
- acquired insights in how you influence and are being influenced
- acquired insights in your personal sources of power and how to use and extend these
- acquired insights in how the working environment influences leadership
- acquired insight in how leadership can be effective in the context of your organisation
Course objectives Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
At the end of the course you have:
- a conceptual and practical understanding of gender related issues and institutionalisation
- Understand how you can assess gender equality and women empowerment within your institution and/or environment
- Have acquired deeper insight into underlying concepts, mechanisms and dynamics
- Gain experience from other participants coming from all parts over the world
Course topics Personal Leadership Skills
- What does it mean to be a leader?
- Leadership power and influence
- How to engage and motivate people?
- Skill of the leaders
- How to initiate and lead (strategic) change?
Course topics Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
- Introduction into gender related concepts and gender institutionalisation
- Introduction into women empowerment
- Assessing gender equality in an institution
- Affirmative action
- Promoting awareness and networking
- Gender policy and strategy
- Female talent development
- Engagement of men
Teaching methods
This short course involves an interactive learning approach, in which the participant is stimulated to move beyond his/her own organization or sector. Learnings take place through:
- Classroom interactive lecturing
- Self-study
- In-class group assignments to reflect on the learning
- Individual assignments, presentations and discussions
- Guest lectures
Your profile
- You are in a management or team leadership position or you have aspirations for a management or leadership position
- You want to improve your performance
- You want to develop skills by action learning
- You have an open attitude
- You are an executive with responsibility for gender policy and/or women entrepreneurship policy
- You are an consultant of lecturer working in areas related to gender policy and/or women entrepreneurship policy
- For all those who are dedicated to promote gender equality and women empowerment in their institution and environment
