Women Executive Leadership Program

Why are women still underrepresented and face gender-specific hurdles and challenges as they navigate today’s corporate world?

The Women Executive Leadership Program (W-ELP) is designed to empower women to reach new levels of knowledge-based confidence and gain a greater sense of ownership of their leadership potential and unique skillsets. It will equip women executives to learn, engage, articulate and deploy a changing culture in their work environment and overcome the challenges women face in the executive world.

Throughout the course of the program, participants will delve into multiple areas such as leading during change and difficult situations, understanding the woman’s perspective in business, achieving a work-life balance, overcoming cultural biases and stereotypes, understanding change dynamics, adopting an agile mentality, becoming more empowered and engaged, sharpening their leadership skills and amplifying work goals through effectively managing and developing their teams.

Module 1

Lead with Impact/Influence (2 sessions - 6 hrs)

1. Understand different leadership styles and how they mesh
2. Identify your leadership/behavioral style and personal traits
3. Learn how gender influences power and leadership

Module 2

Leaders, Agility, MBTI, and Cultural Change (5 sessions - 15 hours)

1. Understand change and the importance of being agile
2. Use the change management process effectively and efficiently to achieve goals
3. Implement a change process in a real-life project
4. Use the self-awareness and smooth the change process “MBTI assessment tool”
5. Achieve cultural transformation and use agility to change the organizational culture

Module 3

Leaders as Coaches (3 sessions - 9 hours)

1. Determine reasons that make coaching the ‘preferred’ leadership style
2. Identify successful strategies for powerful delegation and give effective feedback
3. Practice a coaching mindset that results in higher performance leadership

Module 4

Team Coherence (2 sessions - 6 hours)

1. Know how to build and achieve team coherence
2. Understand the tips and techniques relevant to women in executive leadership roles and learn to apply them

Module 5

Networking, Work-Life Balance and case studies (2 sessions - 6 hours)

1. Construct a plan to build or enhance your network
2. Learn the tools to achieve a work-life balance
3. Explore world-class case studies and the critical factors behind women leaders’ success

Female leaders with a minimum of eight years of experience in leadership roles.

Module 1: Lead with Impact/Influence (6 hours)

Introduction to Leadership

Personal Traits

• Know your behavior style
• How to deal with other styles
• Tips for self-development

Explore Your Talents

• Run talents assessment
• Understand different talent types
• Difference between talent and skill

Leadership Styles

• Daniel Goleman's 6 leadership styles
• The leadership styles played
• Preferred styles vs. situational styles
• Leadership styles in action

Women-Specific Challenges Overview

• Gender bias/equality in the workplace; are there double standards?
• Work-life balance and women’s multiple roles
• Effectively seeking mentors and building networks

Assigning Change Projects to Teams

• Explain projects, and gamification challenges and start brainstorming

Session closing remarks and Next assignment

Module 2: Leaders Agility/Change/MBTI/Cultural Transformation (15 hours)

Module 1 Review

• Change management quiz
• Projects updates discussion

Understand Change Dynamics

• Why change management is important
• The 4 types of responses to change
• How to deal with resistance

Change Management Process

• The 8-steps of managing change
• Preparing for the change
  • Developing the urge to change
  • Creating the team
  • The vision statement
  • Build Change Plan
  • Change enablers and barriers
  • Develop communication strategy
  • Assess associated risks and mitigation plans
  • Identify quick wins

Session closing remarks and next assignment

MBTI

• What MBTI is
• How this assessment helped women in the 50s and continues to help them till now
• The theory of personality preferences
• The 4 dichotomies of MBTI
• Understanding the 16 personalities
• Using MBTI for better communication, change, and agility

Cultural Transformation

• What is organizational culture
• Disney case study
• How do values affect culture formation?
• Types of cultures
• Pillars of culture assessment
• Influencing cultural change

Session closing remarks and next assignment

Change Project

• Practical project implementation
• Real-world application
• New challenges
• Dealing with VUCA

Module 3: Leaders as Coaches (9 hrs)

Situational Leadership

• What is situational leadership
• How to leverage the model in development?
• Final leading tips – know your team exercise

GROW Model

• How to GROW
• Using the GROW model to coach your team
• Practical exercises and coaching sessions

Feedback

• Why is feedback important
• Develop the feedback process
• Case study: role play on a feedback mechanism

Delegation

• Why do we delegate
• Understand the delegation process
• Case study: delegation role play

Session closing remarks and next assignment

Module 4: Team Coherence (6 hrs)

Team Dysfunctions

• 5 Dysfunctions of a Team – “Patrick Lincioni”
• Traffic Jam Exercise – Symptoms of Trust – building stage
• Resolve conflicts and enhance commitment
• Build accountability and be result attentive “Quality House Ex”

Women in Executive Leadership Role - Discussion

• Open discussion
• Project preparation
• Implementation tools and techniques
• Case studies

Session closing remarks and next assignment

Module 5: Networking, Work-Life Balance and case studies (6 hrs)

Networking

• Learn tactics for building effective, supportive professional networks
• The power of relationships
• The importance of mentors/role models/sponsors and finding one

Work-Life Balance

• Women’s multiple roles - are there conflicts?
• Energy management vs. time management
• The Well Being Model PERMA-V
• Balance productivity and happiness/the positivity ratio by Barbara Fredrickson

How top Women Succeed

• Real-life case studies

Case Studies - Projects

Session closing and remarks

Post-program

Coaching

• Three, one-hour online coaching sessions for each participant

Emotional Intelligence Course

• Access to a self-paced emotional intelligence course

Networking

• Annual alumni meetings with sessions covering trending and hot topics

The tuition fee for the program is EGP 29,500 (includes total tuition costs, materials, and a certificate of attendance)

UN Women Egypt is offering a 50% scholarship for women attending this training program provided by the AUC.

*For payment options, refer to the payment section FAQs on our website or contact us on 15592.

AUC School of Business Executive Education has joined valU, flexible payment plans for up to five years with the lowest interest rate.

ValU

• All cancellations must be sent in writing by email. A full refund will be provided for cancellations made 14 days or more before the start date of the course
• A 50% refund will be provided for cancellations made 7 to 13 days before the start date of the course
• No refund will be provided for cancellations made 6 days or less before the start date of the course
• Refunds will be issued to the same payment method used to make the initial payment. Refunds to credit cards are processed within 30 days provided that the participant has the actual credit card in addition to the POS receipt or bank statement while requesting a refund
• The refund of alliance programs is subject to the conditions of the alliance partner

1. Prepare a clear scanned copy of the following documents (saved in PDF format):
a. Original bachelor’s degree certificate
b. National identification card (ID)/passport
2. Fill in the application and upload the above PDF documents
3. The Admissions Committee will review your application and contact you if needed
4. You will receive an acceptance email specifying the next steps for online payment. Your registration is confirmed upon payment

For any inquiries regarding the application process, contact us at 15592 or by email.