UNMASKING THE GENDER EFFECT:
Capitalizing on Women and Men in the Workplace
The Purpose of this workshop is to develop creativity and teamwork, to increase promotability of people with diverse competencies, and to foster organizational change.
The Objectives of the workshop are to:
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Identify gender based communication styles and attributes of gender cultures
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Learn how to understand cultural differences without stereotyping
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Utilize new competencies and resolve issues by understanding valuable differences in decision making and problem solving
Introduce skills to facilitate communication across differences and to cultivate organizational change.
This multi-media, interactive workshop is thought-provoking and entertaining. You will learn the essentials of understanding the different "cultures" of men and women. You will come away with knowledge and skill to accelerate your career advancement and the advancement of others. You will discover unexamined factors linked to our socialization as men and women and redesign perceptions that impact our thinking, behavior, and way of doing business to increase individual and organizational effectiveness.
You will learn
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How different "gendered" perceptions create misunderstandings and impede productivity, creativity and promotability in the workplace and how to turn this around to foster high performance.
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How women add value to the workplace.
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How men add value to the workplace.
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What is invisible and unarticulated that makes the "glass ceiling" impenetrable.
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How understanding gender differences can eliminate incidents of sexual harassment and hostile environment and prevent other losses.
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What women say men don't get about women and what women don't know they don't get about men
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What women know and they don't know how they know it and what men know and they don't know that they don't know.
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What the "gender key" is to breaking through the immutability of the status quo and initiating greater profitability and healthy change in organizations.
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How, by understanding strengths and limitations of gender differences, you create freedom to work powerfully with all people's differences and build more effective workplace community.