Empowering Women to Achieve
January - March 2025
An Empowering You Leadership Program Designed and Delivered for
Summary
As part of its ongoing commitment to increasing women in leadership, London Gatwick is delighted to be partnering with leadership development specialists Empowering You on an initiative specifically designed to support female colleagues in developing their leadership capabilities and realising their potential. “Empowering Women to Achieve” is a unique opportunity for all women working within Global Graded roles at London Gatwick, regardless of their career stage, to take part in an intensive and immersive leadership development program.
The initiative is open application, so anyone can put themselves forward for consideration, and the 20 successful participants will be selected through a completely confidential and transparent process.
Empowering Women to Achieve is supported by London Gatwick, to ensure that colleagues are able to access this opportunity, and is aimed at women who are actively looking to develop their leadership capabilities and realise their potential. Empowering You programs celebrate diversity in every cohort and so applicants are welcome from any career stage or discipline.
Delivered between January - March 2025, Empowering Women to Achieve brings together a community of 20 like-minded professionals who will embark on a unique leadership journey together, learning by experience and from each other.
Key Learning Points
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During the program, participants will work individually and collaboratively to:
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Accelerate leadership potential and embrace a ‘leader as learner’ mindset
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Explore strategies to understand and engage more effectively with team members and stakeholders
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Understand and develop your own personal and authentic leadership skills
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Identify and respond to challenges within the team and organisation
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Leverage the combined expertise of peers to progress individual and collective growth
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Collaborate to deliver a team project, the outputs of which will be presented live to an audience of peers from across the organisation
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Program Modules
Segmented into four key modules which are explored throughout four in-person group workshop sessions, individual coaching and a team community challenge, Empowering Women to Achieve engages participants in a detailed exploration around the fundamentals of authentic leadership from self-awareness, collaboration and influence, through to optimising your personal impact.
Participant Experience
Empowering Women to Achieve immerses participants in a multi-layered development journey, designed to ensure maximum individual impact.
This program is delivered in an experiential format, including group activities and action learning sets. Two professional leadership facilitators are used throughout our workshops to make sure we maintain high levels of personal engagement and diverse perspectives.
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Learning readiness - optional group call with Programme Leader
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Self-assessment
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4 x full day in-person group workshops
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3 x 1 hour 1-1 coaching sessions working on individual developmental priorities
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Guest industry speakers sharing personal leadership stories
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Coaching workbook and questionnaire
- Team collaboration challenge
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A presentation to a wider community
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On completion all participants will receive a certificate
Enrolment
This is a selective program and participants will be selected by a panel based on applications received and to achieve a diverse representation of participants.
Please note that this program is NOT open to any London Gatwick colleagues with less that six months service or who are currently being managed under the company’s capability procedure.
Each applicant will be required to complete an application form for consideration.
Places are limited to a maximum of 20
Workshop times/dates are as follows; you are expected to attend all workshops and graduation to complete the programme successfully.
Workshop Date Information:
1st Group Workshop
29th January 8.30am - 4.30pm
30th January 8.30am - 4pm
2nd Group Workshop
25th February, 8.30am - 4.30pm
26th February, 8.30am - 4pm
It is an expectation that all participants will attend each workshop and complete each module in order to successfully graduate from the programme. Exceptional circumstances will be considered of course.
Team Challenge Presentation and Graduation: Wednesday 26th March 2024, 2pm-4.30pm, Venue - Hilton Hotel, London Gatwick.
