Women in leadership training is a development program that helps women managers and emerging leaders claim the visibility, influence and roles they are ready for. Participants map their influence, rewrite limiting beliefs, practise holding the floor in meetings, negotiate a stretch role and pitch themselves to senior leaders. Bodhih runs it over 2 days or five 3-hour virtual sessions.
- Delivered in person at your location or as live virtual sessions
- Designed with the ADDIE model and evaluated for behaviour change
- Offered by Bodhih since 2008 to 2,000+ organisations across 7 regions
Last reviewed by Siddharthan VGJ, Founder · Bodhih Training, Bengaluru
In 2017 India ranked third lowest in having Women in Leadership roles for the third consecutive year (Grant Thornton, 2017), and this is how to change that statistic.
What are the current trends coming from Women in Leadership research?
The Grant Thornton 2017 Survey on “women in business: New perspectives on risk and reward” shows India ranks third lowest in the proportion of business leadership roles held by women for the third year consecutively (Grant Thornton, 2017). Only 17 percent of senior roles are held by women in India. The survey of 5,500 businesses in 36 economies further adds that 41 percent of the Indian businesses surveyed have no Women in Leadership roles, 7 points higher than the last year.
For a country like India that prides itself on many recent swings in other gender statistics like mortality rate, adult sex ratio, and women illiteracy rates, this is unflattering data.
Embracing diversity is no longer a cultural notion or an idle imperative, but in the world of business having more Women in Leadership roles helps drive efficiencies and effectiveness within teams, functions and organizations. The prevailing mindsets around glass ceiling are coming apart.
Fixing lack of mental diversity is well acknowledged and it is also precisely the space that is addressed by Bodhih’s workshop offering on Women in Leadership.
What is Bodhih’s Women in Leadership course all about?
Beginning with a learner brainstorming session and facilitator led presentation, the class receives an overview of the individual challenges as well as typical challenges for emerging leaders across industries. Competencies for effective leadership are understood from the multiple lenses of rapport building, interpersonal dynamics, creating well-formed outcomes by asking the right questions.
At Bodhih’s Women in Leadership training is sought after session that is part of a larger leadership skills training suite.
The session draws richly from personal development and management literature.
Women in Leadership mentorship program asks the participants to complete a leadership assessment instrument that deep dives into the managerial styles of the various learners. Bodhih’s facilitator through videos and presentations, surfaces the various aspects of a leader like being proactive in spotting risks and opportunities, communicating vision and execution roadmaps with clarity, encouraging team members to come out of comfort zones, using organizational mechanisms to build trust and ownership and finally crafting and administering performance appraisal processes of rewards and incentives.
Growth and Comfort do not Co-exist (Gini Rometty, IBM CEO, its first lady CEO)
Bodhih’s Women in Leadership roles sessions explores the personal effectiveness attributes that is needed for women leaders to stake claim for their rightful positions in the hierarchy. The participants learn about circle of control and circle of influence and differentiate the benefits of both. Through class exercises, learners are motivated to think ways to increase their current circles of influence and how to make personal victory of self by operating from the area of control.
These learnings are captured through group activity, video presentations. Bodhih’s facilitators work on assertiveness and building trust mechanisms that empowers women leaders to communicate the gravitas of their position that they hold and convey the right message in the right manner.
What is the edge in Bodhih’s Conflict Management strategies and techniques programs?
Bodhih’s workshop on conflict resolution techniques aims to bring cutting edge industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights that ensures Conflict Management steps are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long term benefits are to institutionalise Conflict Management skills across teams by assessing one’s natural and dominant style of Conflict Management and developing a flexible approach to conflict management.
The heart of Bodhih’s Women in Leadership certification program lies in the powerful session of ‘believing that they are at par’
This insightful session delivered through video and class presentations touches upon belief systems and then explores the necessity of cultivating new beliefs for new results and finally deep dives on how generating right belief is the way to success. This is done through reflective exercises of looking through outcomes of past positive and negative belief systems.
At Bodhih, Women in Leadership development training the various subjects that receive rigorous attention are brought together in an execution plan of next steps.
How would you gain from Women in Leadership mentorship programs at Bodhih?
Bodhih customizes its Women in Leadership sessions along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.
In addition to the ADDIE model, the Women in Leadership certificate workshop takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.
The edge in Bodhih’s Women in Leadership mentorship program comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights that ensures Women in Leadership program learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Women in Leadership programs by embedding practices of nurturing personal competencies in women top talent and aligning their personal ambitions to the overall organizational needs to the overall goals of the organisation and also to build a strong woman mentorship program.
What is Bodhih’s promise on Women in Leadership development certificate training?
Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on woman in leadership mentorship program talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, developing a strong system of talent management that identifies women leadership potential and also the attention in building reputation as serious leadership material.
Sample training plan: 2-day hands-on design
This two-day workshop helps women managers and emerging leaders claim the visibility, influence and roles they are ready for. Each participant brings one real stretch move, such as a role she wants, a project she should lead or a pay conversation she keeps postponing, and works on it throughout. She maps her influence, rewrites a limiting belief with evidence, practises holding the floor in a meeting, negotiates the stretch role and pitches herself to a panel of senior leaders.
Participants can describe their leadership style, map their influence and state a clear position with presence in a meeting.
- 09:30–10:00Three turning pointsEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00My leadership style, read honestlyDiagnostic
- 11:15–11:45Control, influence, acceptConcept burst
- 11:45–13:00Influence map for my stretch moveBuild sprint
- 13:45–14:45The belief auditPeer coaching
- 14:45–15:30Ninety seconds of gravitasSkill drill
- 15:45–16:45Hold the floorRole-play
- 16:45–17:30What I will stop hidingReflection
Participants can negotiate a stretch role, handle conflict with peers and pitch their leadership case to senior leaders.
- 09:30–10:00Introduce her, not youEnergiser
- 10:00–11:00Asking for the stretch roleReal-play
- 11:15–11:45Trust and ownership in teamsConcept burst
- 11:45–13:00Conflict with a peerRole-play
- 13:45–14:45My leadership pitchBuild sprint
- 14:45–15:30Pitch rehearsal circlesFeedback round
- 15:45–16:45Sponsor panelPresentation
- 16:45–17:30My 90-day visibility planAction planning
Every session’s activity, timings, outputs and materials, plus pre-work, a 90-day reinforcement plan and how impact is measured. Free, emailed to you instantly.
Recommended: 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 5 × 3-hour live virtual sessions over three weeks, plus a 90-day follow-up with a senior sponsor. A sample design: every Bodhih program is customised after a short needs analysis.
How long is women in leadership training?
The recommended design is two days in person, from 09:30 to 17:30, followed by a 90-day plan with a sponsor. It also runs as five live virtual sessions of three hours over three weeks. A one-day version suits smaller cohorts, and a longer journey adds mentoring circles.
What activities are included in women in leadership training?
Participants work on one real stretch move throughout. They map their stakeholder influence, audit a limiting belief with a peer coach, record a 90-second position statement, practise holding the floor when interrupted, rehearse asking for a stretch role and pitch to a panel of senior leaders.
Frequently asked questions
What is women in leadership training?
Who is the Women In Leadership Training program for?
Managers, team leads and senior leaders at every level. Bodhih tailors the examples, case studies and depth to your industry, culture and team level.
How long is the Women In Leadership Training program?
Bodhih recommends 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 5 × 3-hour live virtual sessions over three weeks, plus a 90-day follow-up with a senior sponsor. The length can be shortened or extended after a needs analysis.
Can Women In Leadership Training be delivered online?
Yes. Women In Leadership Training can run in person at your location, as live virtual sessions for distributed or hybrid teams, or as a blended journey that adds self-paced learning on Bodhih.org between sessions.
How is the impact of Women In Leadership Training measured?
Success measures for Women In Leadership Training are agreed with you before design, as part of the ADDIE model. Bodhih can add pre- and post-program assessments on AssessAll and manager check-ins to track behaviour change.