Women of Excellence: Business Leadership Workshop
Dates: 14 March 10:30 am – 1:30pm
Venue: Alfajiri Hub, 204 The Main Change, 20 Kruger Street, Johannesburg, GP 2094

What You’ll Learn

• Learn assertiveness skills for women to apply in meetings and predominantly male environments
• Become comfortable in your own skin
• Develop an action plan based on what you learned
• Deal with conflicts confronting women
• Recognise your strengths and weaknesses
• Practice assertive behaviours in challenging situations
• Overcome obstacles to assertiveness skills for women
• Build and project a positive self-image
• Assess your stress and adopt assertive techniques to help manage stress
• Develop an assertive action plan
• Use assertive communication techniques: verbal, nonverbal, and assertive listening

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Assessing Yourself

• Identify and acknowledge your own strengths
• Outline the conflicting roles and know how to reduce role conflict

Assertiveness Skills for Women: Techniques and Practices

• Distinguish between the basic response styles of passive, assertive, and aggressive
• Avoid being manipulated by others

Key Communication Skills Necessary

• A successful formula for assertion
• Say “no” and survive
• Assertive techniques of fogging, broken record, negative assertion, negative inquiry, and compromise
• Differences between how women and men communicate
• Send harmonious messages
• Listen assertively

Negotiation

• Assumptions about negotiation and how these impact abilities
• Negotiating more effectively
• Develop a personal negotiation plan and personal negotiation skills

Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve the Desired Personal and Professional Balance

• Pinpoint your internal obstacles to assertiveness and practice control strategies
• Self-reliance and special support systems
• Your specific anger buttons and how to deal with them productively
• Techniques for preventing and coping with stress