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STRONG WOMEN/STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE
PART I: THE ART OF STRATEGIC PERSUASION
This workshop is designed to provide powerful women with skills to succeed in accomplishing their goals in negotiations and meetings. Participants will be introduced to techniques that people in the theater and in leadership training understand about how to be effective. They will learn how to articulate a clear purpose, land their message, be heard, enhance personal presence, depersonalize attacks, and manage hot moments. Participants are asked to bring examples of past challenging negotiations or meetings. These moments are examined in the workshop, through the use of role-plays. Discussion, coaching, and the replay of scenarios creates a highly interactive, personal and powerful learning of the wide range of tactics available for success. Participants will leave with a superior sense of how to think strategically about their professional challenges and leadership opportunities.
PART II: STRATEGIES FOR LEADING CHANGE
Making change happen can be done from any position in an organization. Many highly successful women can easily identify what changes need to happen, but find it difficult to lead others to confront the challenges facing their group. This workshop, which builds on the theatre and leadership techniques introduced in The Art of Strategic Persuasion, will increase the capabilities of powerful women to effect organizational change. Participants will experience new vocal presence, learn to differentiate types of challenges, understand how roles determine strategies, and identify the pressures behind the resistance to change. Using a case from the group, participants will explore a method to clarify the larger purpose while identifying the trap of “quick fixes.” Participants will leave with new strategies for successfully leading change in their institution or organization.
Nancy Houfek is Head of Voice and Speech at the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. She has served as consultant to professional speakers throughout the United States since 1978. She has presented workshops for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard Medical School, and The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, as well as for many clients in the private sector. A film of her work with Harvard faculty, "The Act of Teaching," has been produced by the Bok Center for national distribution to faculty development centers.
Dr. Lee Warren is Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, where she has worked since 1988. Providing teaching support to faculty and graduate students teaching assistants, she works on issues of group process, consults with groups and individuals, leads workshops and seminars, and makes videotapes for training sessions. Her particular interests center around leadership, classroom diversity, and case teaching.
Cancellation policy: Cancellations received at least 30 days before the event will receive a complete refund. Cancellations received 14 days before the event will receive a 50% refund. Cancellations received less than 14 days before the event are non-refundable.
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