Positioning Yourself for Promotion Workshop

Sample Agenda

Day One

-Introduction, Overview, Course Requirements
-Historical overview; Perceptions of women in policing; Myths vs. Facts of Women
 in Law Enforcement
-What Challenges Do We Face? Leadership Requirements Needed; Issues
 Significant to Women; How Do We Overcome These Challenges? (Group
 Discussion)
-Break
-Personal Achievement Inventory (Exercise)
-Lunch
-Relationship Map (Exercise)
-Brass Ceiling - What's holding you back? How to overcome barriers;How to
 overcome internal and external pressures
-Break
-How to find your own mentor
-General Leadership - ABCs of basic leadership principles
-Final stretch
-Improve your capacity for leadership - Risk taking, what stops you from taking
 risks; strategies to advance your leadership skills

Day Two

-Defining success; Leaders learn from their failures;
 Recognizing how to motivate yourself and others;
 Exercise: What do I want?
-Break
-Gender differences in Communication - Adopting an Empowering
 Communications Style
-Assessment Center - How to prepare yourself
-Lunch
-Case Studies - group exercise
-Goals chart - How to set your goals (Exercise)
-Break
-Characteristics of Women in Command;Building your leadership style and
 creating your roadmap to success