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Recording and presentation: Taster sessions for the Aspiring Women Leaders programme
Area: People Development
Duration: 60 minutes
Recording and presentation – English version
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Who should attend the webinar?
- 1-3 PQE, Managers, future Managers or Directors
- HR / L&D or Partners that are considering registering some of their high potential female leaders on the programme
About the webinar
This webinar is an opportunity for 1-3 PQE, future Managers or Directors that are looking to get promoted in the future to gain a valuable insight into this highly engaging virtual Aspiring Women Leaders programme lasting either 3 or 6 months.
Participants in this webinar will meet the experienced Facilitators, explore with other Nexia colleagues the common challenges women face when looking to get promoted and move up to the next level, and learn more about how the programme will benefit you.
The Facilitators having a wealth of experience working for the Big 4 and for professional services firms.
Benefits/Takeaways:
- Hear what great results other people have had on similar programmes and how you can accelerate your own development
- Enjoy group conversations with peers around practical challenges
- Meet the facilitators and understand more about the approach and the impact that the programme can have
- Learn how the programme will help you to develop a Nexia network
- Have an opportunity to ask questions
Advance – Aspiring women Leaders programme – starting in September 2022
What is Advance?
Advance is a unique leadership development programme focusing on building confidence, and designed specifically for women. Having worked with many “Nexian” women, we know they are highly intelligent, capable and focused, so this programme is far less about teaching women what leadership is , and far more about helping them paint a clearer picture of the woman they wish to "become" and supporting them to take practical action to realise this at work. The result: Women will naturally lead with more decision and clarity, in effect creating their own confident and unique leadership style.
Who is it for?
For those women who have 4-6 years of experience under their belt, may be in middle management positions, and are wondering what next? This, we know, is often the point that firms lose women. Advance is an ideal way to recognise a woman’s value to the firm, to enable them to navigate their way forward with more confidence, and encourage them to continue to contribute to your firm’s success.
Advance is also suited to women in management roles such as marketing and HR.
There is additional optional one-to-one virtual coaching available as part of the programme with an experienced qualified coach for an additional fee.
How to women benefit?
- Increased self awareness, confidence, and trust in their own unique personal leadership style
- A strong network of likeminded women who will continue to support and challenge each other.
- A set of tools to help them navigate their way effectively around a firm
- A better understanding of what contributes to executive presence
How does your firm benefit?
- Increased retention of female talent, leading to increased gender diversity at senior levels, which in turn leads to greater collaboration, innovation, longer client relationships and essentially boosts your bottom line.
Programme overview:
This 6 month programme offers participants a powerful combination of prerecorded material, experiential exercises and coaching. We know it’s crucial to get engagement from the very start, so every woman will have a personal 1:1 welcome call. This is where we establish rapport, build relationships, find out what each woman really wants from their Advance adventure, and introduce them to the membership site and private social media group.
This superb virtual programme is run by women, for women, in a safe confidential environment. Women watch core development materials and do the exercises at their own convenience with the added bonus of weekly support calls, which build in accountability and agency. Women also have life long membership and access to resources, which means they can rewatch and refresh their memory on specific topics any time they like.
When:
The Gold programme runs from Mid September 2022 to Mid March 2023.
Core modules
Module 1: Your Brilliance
This focuses on individual brilliance, we look at values, strengths, ambition and “future self”.
Module 2: Basecamp
Women evaluate themselves and consider what challenges they face.
Module 3: Inner Strategies
This module covers how to sustain positivity under pressure – it’s easy to feel confident when you have a million pounds in the bank; this is about how to create a million mental pounds as a foundation for achievement and a cushion against adversity
Module 4: Outer strategies,
This module is all about impact and visibility . We know how important it is for a woman not only to feel confident but to be seen as confident by colleagues and clients. Women will explore personal branding, the impact of body language, and stakeholder engagement.
Module 5: Resilience
We make sure that individuals are resourced to deal with setbacks and challenges . We share key embodiment principles, and how managing and regulating our physical state influences our mental and emotional state, thus enabling us to perform better.
Module 6: Saboteurs : This module explores how to handle our saboteurs (such as the inner critic), so that women can navigate effectively in their chosen direction within the firm. There are powerful personal exercises, and a focus on practice to help self regulation and build additional confidence so encouraging women to create, explore, and make the most of available opportunities.
Module 7: Executive Presence:
This module focuses on how to communicate with impact when you’re a minority in the room. We share tools and techniques to help women own their power, command attention, and generate respect at a senior leadership level.
Module 8 The 3 C’s. Consolidate, Continue, Celebrate.
Here we focus on how to embed what has most contributed to building confidence and developing personal leadership style, building on and celebrating progress.
We have built in specific outputs to the Advance experience. For example, future self vision and action plans. A less tangible but very real outcome is the development of what we call a “future focused female family” . This is a peer group that challenges and supports and will endure long after the official end of the Advance programme, ensuring the Advance adventure has long lasting impact for both the woman and the firm.
Advance Silver
We believe every firm should be able to invest in supporting and developing women to realise their potential. Our 3 month Silver Experience ensures price is not a barrier to entry and suits firms who wish to invest in large numbers of women.
Who is it for?
Silver is for 1-3 PQE, junior employees, new joiners or new Managers, setting them up for success. It lasts 3 months, from mid September to mid December, has 6 modules, and 12 weekly calls for peer coaching and support. It is a foundational programme laying the cornerstones for every woman’s career, focussing on self awareness and personal growth.
Programme summary and comparison:
Your Advance team:
Following a career in the military, Allex Jenkinson has
spent the last 20 years in professional services. She
leads on inner strategies, focusing on the power of
choice, leadership style, & action planning.
Steph Harvey is our Resilience guru and shares her
expertise on balance, embodiment, & setting
boundaries.
Helen Tuddenham draws on senior leadership experience with PWC and leads on outer strategies and executive presence, looking at personal brand and visibility, mentoring and how to own your power when you’re a minority in the room.
Audrey Pantelis is an accredited coach specialising in resilient leadership. On advance she openly shares her lived experience in understanding the challenges of promotion as a black women in a predominatnly white, male space to inspire women in the workplace.
Anjani Ghandi has lead multi-cultural, multi-lingual HR teams in various industries and across continents. For her, HR & Coaching have always gone hand-in-hand. She leads on Sabateur Handling.
Kielan Tayler is a change specialist and executive coach. She leads The Advance Programme and her focus is on helping women connect with their own Brilliance.
If you have any questions about the Aspiring Women Leaders training programme please contact Alastair McTavish at alastair.mctavish@nexia.com or Laura Maestro at laura.maestro@nexia.com
- Please click here to register for the Aspiring Women Leaders programme
- For information about the five Nexia 2022 Leadership and Professional Development programmes that were attended by 115 Nexians last year please click here
- To ensure you and your staff benefit from high-quality complimentary Audit, IFRS and professional skills learning and live IFRS webinars please register on www.nexialearning.com and click here to download a fantastic short guide to the site to help you get the best from all the learning resources available.
