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Your Brilliant Career: Career Development for Women
“This is a really good course as it stands and has a great facilitator”
Team leader, Department for Education
Madeleine Albright famously said: “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.”
Although women are now more visible in public leadership roles, there is no denying that they are still under-represented at the top levels. This highly practical programme addresses the issues, stereotypes, and challenges that women typically face in pursuing their careers and allows space and time for participants to reflect deeply with each other on what they really want.
Too often a career development plan is based on deficit – I want to be THERE, but I’m only HERE. Or perhaps we feel we SHOULD make a career move because people tell us that is what we ought to do. This workshop harnesses a very different approach: by using an appreciative inquiry technique, we will start to explore what brings participants joy and energy in their working lives, what values, principles and preferences are particularly important to them in their working life, and what strengths and skills they already bring. This positive yet rigorous approach enables participants to imagine a preferred future that they may not have allowed themselves to dream of until now, and then to consider the steps that need to be put into place to allow this to come about.
The course leader’s facilitative approach provides opportunities for personal reflection and mutual support.
At the Civil Service College, we tailor our courses to each attendee’s role and organisation, ensuring that each participant gets the most out of the training. Our courses and trainers are continuously updated and evaluated to ensure that we are always delivering the best service possible.
Key Training Features:
- THE WORLD WE OPERATE IN: STEREOTYPES, REALITIES, ISSUES AND BARRIERS: both participants experience and what research tells us
- USING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY TO START YOUR CAREER PLANNING: Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver
Who Can Attend:
Your Brilliant Career is designed for women at any level and in any sector interested in exploring and planning a career that feels 100% authentic and right for them.
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will explore gender stereotypes and realities, Identifying and dealing with issues and barriers to advancement faced by women in the workplace and then applying appreciative inquiry to career planning, including developing networks and support mechanisms
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Summary
Duration
10:00 - 16:00
Price
£650 + VAT
Location
Civil Service College, Westminster, London
In-House Option
This course is available In-House and can be tailored to meet your individual training requirements.
EnquireLead Trainer
Angela Blacklaw
Angela has a broad range of experience working in and providing training for the public sector. Her expertise covers; communications, leadership, talent management and more.
Read BioAngela Blacklaw
Angela has years of senior expertise in personal and organisational development, leadership, change, wellbeing and resilience, operating at both strategic and practitioner level. Questioning and curious, she often brings an alternative perspective and encourages others to see things differently too.
Following 20 years of supporting individual and organisational learning and change in the civil service, latterly as Head of Talent Development in the Department of Health, Angela quickly built a reputation for solid delivery. In that time Angela has worked as an associate for respected consultancies such as Ernst & Young, Korn Ferry and the Civil Service College and is a member of the faculty of the NHS Leadership Academy. She has worked with clients from varied backgrounds including civil servants, scientists, analysts, musicians, High Court Judges and healthcare practitioners at all levels.
Her core specialisms include:
- Building warm, honest and challenging coaching relationships, enabling people to achieve more than they thought possible;
- Expertise in leadership and talent development, change, wellbeing and resilience;
- Designing and facilitating powerful and memorable learning experiences;
- Enabling people to learn the skills to support and challenge others.
Angela is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an Accredited Time To Think® Facilitator. She also holds a Certificate in Organisation Development, and a Master of Science in Human Resources.
Qualifications:
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
- Certificate in Organisation Development from the NTL Institute
- Accredited Time To Think® Facilitator
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"Having small groups allows us to have more time for the trainer to suit individual needs."
New Forest District Council
"It was excellent - small numbers allows maximum facilitation."
Director of Public Affairs, Advertising Association
"Brilliant trainer - very welcoming and made me feel at ease and confident in sharing sensitive information."
Department of Health
“Particularly enjoyed the opportunity for reflection on own style and circle of influence.”
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“This session has been absolutely wonderful - thank you everyone for sharing, for discussing, debating and laughing.”
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