LIVE ONLINE COURSE WITH
IBM’S GLOBAL PARTNER
FOR AI & ANALYTICS
16 MAY 2023 - 22 JUNE 2023
6 WEEKS
Course Language: English
How do effective female leaders increase their influence and drive impact?
Join IBM’s AI & Analytics Global Partner, Noelle Silver, for a 6-week transformational leadership development program designed exclusively for women to reflect, connect, and lead with confidence.
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
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YOU WANT TO MOVE INTO A LEADERSHIP POSITION
Learn what it takes to be an effective leader and the skills you need for future success. Map out your personal and professional goals with confidence.
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YOU ARE A THRIVING WOMAN IN LEADERSHIP
Become a master in communication and negotiation and learn the keys to effective leadership. Get the tools to improve yourself, build a team, and take your company to the next level.
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YOU WANT TO ADVANCE YOUR CAREER
Build your leadership, communication, and negotiation skills and develop a mindset to advance in your career. Learn to increase your influence and strengthen your authority.
YOUR ASCENT STARTS HERE
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DEVELOP YOUR OWN ROADMAP TO LEADERSHIP SUCCESS.
What does success look like to you? This course will give you the tools you need to reach your goals in work and life. Create a 12-month plan to achieve your personal and professional goals and overcome common hurdles facing women in leadership.
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LEARN FROM THOSE WITH DEEP INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE.
Learn under the guidance of Noelle Silver, an executive leader at top companies such as NPR, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Alexa, while connecting with other high-achieving women through workshops and in-class activities.
ABOUT THE COURSE
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7 WORKSHOPS Map out your personal and professional goals. This course will help you think deeply about your own core values, vision, and leadership style as you learn to overcome the challenges of being a woman in leadership.
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12-MONTH ACTION PLAN Develop a detailed plan for future success. With a 90-day personal development vision and a 12-month goal-orientated action plan, you’ll finish this course with a clear path to achieving your goals.
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TANGIBLE SKILLS Learn to negotiate and communicate like a pro. Gain confidence in dealing with tough conversations, learn the keys to effective communication, and build your resilience as a leader.
INSTRUCTOR
Noelle Silver Russell
- Global AI Solutions Lead, Accenture
- Led technology teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Alexa
- Specializes in helping companies with emerging technology, cloud, AI, and Web 3.0
- Founder of AI Leadership Institute, empowering and inspiring organizations globally to begin thinking more deeply about AI
- Passionate about teaching women and people of color how to use the power of technology and influence to achieve success in business
- Multi-award-winning technologist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker
SYLLABUS
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01
THU (16.05)
Being a Woman at Work
Learn about the inherent challenges and opportunities for women in leadership, considering where we’ve come from and where we are now with workplace inequality.
- - The impact of COVID-19 & economic conditions on women
- - Knowing the difference between power, influence, and authority
- - The importance of mindset and determining your ‘why’
- - Workshop: Develop a personal mission statement and core values
Assignment #1: The ‘7 whys’ exercise.
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02
TUE (18.05)
Self Awareness, Branding, and Presence
Discover your purpose and vision and learn to tell your story with guest speaker Sandy Carter, Senior Vice President and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains.
- - The importance of self-awareness in career management
- - Building your personal brand
- - Examples of successful women in leadership
- - Workshop: Develop your simple sentence story
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03
THU (23.05)
IQ, EQ, and AQ: Leadership Intelligence
Examine the different types of intelligence needed to communicate as a leader and how to be a successful woman in leadership.
- - IQ: Functional excellence
- - EQ: Emotional intelligence as a superpower
- - AQ: Adaptability and a growth mindset
- - Workshop: Introduction to non-violent communication
Assignment #2: Eliminate emotional false beliefs.
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04
TUE (25.05)
Building Resilience
Develop a strategy for overcoming challenges and always landing on your feet.
- - Overcoming obstacles in your career
- - Setting healthy boundaries
- - Managing up and leading leaders
- - Decisions as a pathway to success
Assignment #3: Vision and goal exercise – create your professional scorecard.
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05
TUE (30.05)
Problem-Solving Like a Leader
Discover different techniques for collaboration and problem-solving.
- - Rethinking problems and building confidence
- - The truth about customer obsession
- - Tools for collaboration
- - Workshop: Generating ideas through design thinking
Assignment #4: 100 ways to stay motivated exercise and hands-on collaboration tools.
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06
THU (01.06)
Building Your Leadership Presence
Learn how to raise your voice in the workplace. Develop a personal branding strategy and understand the difference between mentorship and sponsorship for leaders.
- - Bringing your authentic voice to the world
- - Inclusivity and influence for fostering innovation
- - Positivity, reciprocity, and servant leadership
- - The difference between sponsorship and mentorship
Assignment #5: ‘Who am I?’ exercise, story inventory, and homework for life.
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07
TUE (06.06)
The Art of Giving Feedback
Practice giving and receiving both positive and negative feedback with empathy and compassion.
- - The importance of feedback and key challenges
- - The feedback sandwich
- - Vulnerability and perceptions of failure
- - Workshop: Bad news and drive by sandwich
Assignment #6: Using the template provided, find five people to get feedback from. Be prepared to share your reflections and what was new to you.
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08
THU (08.06)
Vision, Goals, and Measuring What Matters
Develop a 12-month detailed goal-orientated plan for personal and professional success.
- - Understanding the vision of your leadership and employees
- - OKRs as a methodology for measuring results
- - The power of WBRs, MBRs, and QBRs in reporting
- - Tools and resources for measuring the success of your team
Assignment #7: Create OKRs for your life.
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09
TUE (13.06)
Negotiating Like a Pro
Understand how to negotiate from a position of power and confidence.
- - Knowing where you want to go
- - Key strategies for negotiating a win-win
- - Mindful negotiations and non-violent communication
- - Role-play exercise: I want a raise
Assignment #8: Make a list of things that you need support from others to achieve professionally and personally. Pick two and consider your desired outcome and common objections. Practice role-playing how you might negotiate the best possible outcome.
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10
THU (15.06)
Networking
Learn how to connect with like-minded people and be the CEO of your own life. Uncover common myths about networking.
- - Your network as your net worth
- - Become the CEO of your own life, with an advisory board
- - Being congruent in your personal, professional, and digital life
- - Workshop: Help and be helped
Assignment #9: Connect with everyone in the class on LinkedIn and set up a coffee date with one of your classmates.
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11
TUE (20.06)
Success and Self-Care
Discover mechanisms for self-care and how to establish harmony in work and life.
- - Creating a virtuous cycle of work and family
- - Focus and stress management
- - Building confidence with self-care
- - Workshop: Mindfulness and meditation practice
Assignment #10: Create a list of activities and practices that will help you feel centered, calm, and taken care of. How will you prioritize these? Take the seven-day mental diet challenge.
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12
THU (22.06)
Future Development as a Leader
Build your personal and professional strategic plan to get the results you want in life. Define where you want to go and how you can get there.
- - Working backwards with your 12-month plan
- - Sub-targets as a key to success
- - Productivity hacks for women in leadership
- - Working out what’s next
Assignment #11: Prepare a 90-day personal development plan.
ENROLL
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