Workshops

Hit the Ground Running

Your first 100 days tackling any new leadership challenge (team, job, initiative, change) is an unparalleled opportunity to accelerate your career: imagine creating long-term positive momentum! It can also be a critical, vulnerable time, when easily avoided tactical errors can launch a crisis of confidence in leadership from which it’s tough to recover. In this lively, spirited workshop, learn how to maximize success, minimize risk and exploit your strengths when taking control.

Learn how to:

Manage the push to move quickly against the pull to make thoughtful, informed decisions
Identify the common pitfalls of leadership transitions and ways to overcome them
Allocate that most precious commodity: your time
Craft a leadership transition plan that maximizes success
Identify "what matters most" in each of the 4 stages of leadership transition
Respond to initial setbacks that can make or break a career

Special Feature! Learn the 7 Choices of Wildly Successful Women developed through nearly 300 interviews with effective executives.

Whether you are inheriting a major division, launching a new initiative or transferring industries, Hit the Ground Running will be the thoughtful whisper in your ear, the reassuring pat on the back, and most importantly, your roadmap to real, tangible success.

Meet the Author - Liz Cornish

Liz Cornish, MBA, is a sought-after speaker and organizational consultant. An expert in teambuilding, leadership development, change management and long range-planning, she coaches leaders from one person start-ups to Fortune 500 as they develop, support and maintain effective performance. Her client list has included Ernst and Young, the Naval Post-graduate School, SC Johnson and Son, and many healthcare systems, executive programs, and women’s network associations.

Her book, on which this workshop is based, is the product of hundreds of interviews with highly successful executives, thousands of research hours, and 25 years of experience. Liz’s varied background includes many years and miles as an international outdoor adventure educator. She has led executives up Mt Kilimanjaro, survived riots in Kenya, kayaked the powerful Zambezi River in Africa, ran the 100th Boston Marathon & soloed above the Arctic Circle.

An authorized FWI Certified Program Facilitator (CPF) must present this workshop. Click here for a list of current CPFs.

To learn more about putting on the program in your area, please download the Hit the Ground Running Program in a Box, e-mail ann@fwi.org or call toll-free 866-236-2007.

See Jane Lead: Every Woman's Guide To Discovering Her Leader Within

Most women may not realize it, but they already possess the qualities to make them great leaders. Dr. Frankel shows women how to overcome these self-sabotaging behaviors that prevent them from realizing their full management potential. Filled with unique practical advice and real-world examples of successful female leaders. See Jane Lead outlines the most effective ways women can take charge of their business and personal lives.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND BENEFITS

In See Jane Lead, bestselling author and internationally recognized executive coach Lois P. Frankel, PhD, provides women with the 99 most effective strategies to unleash their natural leadership skills and achieve success in today's business world.

Meet the Author - Dr. Lois Frankel

Dr. Frankel was a featured speaker at the 2007 FWI Annual Conference.

Positive Risk: How SMART WOMEN Use Passion to Break Through Their Fears

This program is developed from the cutting edge material of best-selling author Barbara Stoker's latest book, Positive Risk: How Smart Women Use Passion to Break Through Their Fears.

JOIN OTHER FWI MEMBERS for a dynamic, interactive and fun workshop that will help you answer the following questions:

Are you risking up to your ability?
Do you give yourself enough credit?
Is your passion greater than your fear?
What is your Courage Ratio?
How do you define success?
What invisible risks are you taking?
Whose mountain are you climbing?

PROGRAM OUTCOMES AND BENEFITS

During this program, you will step beyond theory becoming actively involved and focused on the mountains you are tackling in your own life. You will explore the risk you face and where you'll find the courage to see it through.

By attending this program, you will:

Achieve greater professional and personal rewards from your career
Explore the reality that women are natural born leaders
Build on your existing skills, talents, and strengths
Address the 15 Critical Questions every woman should ask to ensure that she is taking the right risks in the smartest way possible.

Positive Risk is a ground-breaking workshop that will provide practical advice you can apply the very next day at work.

Meet the Author Barbara Stoker

Barbara Stoker is one of the foremost thinkers on women and risk. Barbara acquired her expertise in risk-taking through a dynamic career that includes licensing several Walt Disney movies, launching Hallmark's Gift Business and developing Porcelain Barbie for Mattel Toys. She is also an avid climber and paragliding pilot in addition to authoring Intelligent Risking for Women (2004), and A Woman with a Minute (2005). Her next book, LINK Thinking is due out in 2007.

An authorized FWI Certified Program Facilitator (CPF) must present the workshop. Click here for a list of current CPFs.

To learn more about putting on the program in your area, please download the Positive Risk Program In A Box, e-mail ann@fwi.org or call toll-free 866-236-2007.

Her Place at the Table: Creating Conditions for Career Success

Too many women work hard, deliver the results and expect a tiara to fall on their heads. It just doesn't happen that way - women have to negotiate for the conditions to create career success. That's why the FWI Foundation is delighted to partner with Carol Frohlinger of Negotiating Women, Inc., to create Her Place at the Table: Creating Conditions for Career Success.

Join other women for a dynamic, interactive and fun workshop that will provide you with the tools you need to:

Understand the special tests that the workplace reserves just for women - and how to pass them with flying colors.

Avoid the traps that can stall your career.
Interact more effectively with your boss to get the support you need.
Negotiate for the resources you need to get the job done.
Influence colleagues and team members to attain business objectives.

With this program, you'll have an opportunity to put the skills learned in the program into practice through interactive case studies and role plays in a safe environment. By attending this program, you can expect the following results:

You'll have an opportunity to assess what you've been doing that is working - and to consider what isn't.

You'll get feedback and suggestions about how to handle specific challenges you are facing at work.

You'll feel more confident and competent to create conditions for your own career success.

Based on ground-breaking research from over 100 women leaders, this workshop will provide practical advice you can apply the very next day at work. This workshop will help you achieve the leadership success you deserve by giving you the tools and experience to take your own seat at the table.

Meet the Authors - Deborah M. Kolb and Carol Frohlinger

Deborah M. Kolb is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership at the Simmons School of Management and co-founder of the Center for Gender in Organizations there.

From 1991 through 1994, she was the executive director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is currently a senior fellow at the program, where she co-directs the Negotiations in the Workplace Project.

Kolb is co-author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2004) and of The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success (Simon & Schuster, 2000). That book was named by Harvard Business Review as one of the top ten business books of 2000. It also received the "Best Book" award from the International Association of Conflict Management and has been published in paperback under the title, Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas of Bargaining.

Kolb received her Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship. She has a B.A. from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado.

Carol Frohlinger is a co-author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2004). The book examines the challenges women face when they assume leadership positions and how negotiation skills help them to meet those challenges.

Ms. Frohlinger has worked with major companies for the past 15 years to identify and solve performance management problems. She has created, developed and delivered many successful training interventions on topics including negotiation, leadership, team building, sales, sales management, presentation skills, market planning as well as technical programs including commercial and consumer lending.

Corporate clients with whom she has consulted include American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, Dun & Bradstreet, and T. Rowe Price. Her coaching clientele includes women executives from a variety of industries including banking, law, consulting, public accounting and pharmaceuticals.

A nationally recognized speaker and meeting facilitator, a former sales manager, commercial banker and practicing attorney, Ms. Frohlinger has been a Visiting Professor at the Simmons School of Management and holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

An authorized FWI Certified Program Facilitator (CPF) must present the workshop. FWI Certified Program Facilitators

To learn more about putting on a program in your area, email ann@fwi.org or call toll free at 866-236-2007.

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

A workshop on how to achieve the success you deserve

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Girls Don't Get the Corner Office Dr. Lois Frankel focuses this highly interactive and experiential program on why adult women act like "little girls," the unconscious mistakes they make to prevent them from achieving the success they deserve, and practical tools for projecting increased competence and confidence in the workplace.

Frankel, President of Corporate Coaching International, a Pasadena, Cal. consulting firm, is an author and an internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace behavior. With over two decades in the field of employee development, she is a frequent guest on talk radio and television programs, at association conferences, and at corporate workshops and retreats. She most recently appeared on NBC's The Today Show, CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer, and CNN's In The Money.

The author of numerous journal articles related to employee and organization development, Dr. Frankel has also written several books. Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (Warner Business, 2004), reached the top of Amazon's bestselling business books within a week of its release. Her last book, Overcoming Your Strengths: 8 Reasons Why Successful People Derail and How to Get Back on Track (Harmony, 1997), was named "the best unsung business book" of the year by Fast Company magazine.

Meet the Author - Dr. Lois Frankel

Dr. Lois P. Frankel, President of Corporate Coaching International, is an author, sought after public speaker and an internationally recognized expert in the field of work place behavior. For over 20 years Lois has traveled around the globe helping organizations achieve their business goals by maximizing use of their human capital. Her most recent book, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make that Sabotage Their Careers, touched a chord with working women around the world making it an international bestseller. Dr. Frankel was the featured speaker at the 2004 FWI International Conference and is returning this year to present her 2005 release Nice Girls Don't Get Rich.

An authorized FWI Certified Program Facilitator (CPF) must present the workshop. Click here for a list of current CPFs.

To learn more about putting on a program in your area, email ann@fwi.org or call toll free at 866-236-2007.”