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Meetings Toolkit for
Women’s Networks and Affinity Groups

There is great value in having leaders train leaders, but women who lead internal women’s groups have day jobs!  They are just too busy to create content for meetings.

So, they asked us to create engaging meetings that would support women in their companies to build skills. They asked us to create meetings that they could facilitate without doing a lot of preparation.

We are delighted to offer “Just Add Women®” meeting agendas and related materials:

• Detailed Meeting Leader’s Guide including
  • Facilitator Meeting Checklist
  • Sample email invitation describing the session

• PowerPoint presentation (as required)
• Meeting Attendee Materials

Topics

Each of the proposed meeting topics deals with a challenge women face in the workplace:

• Building A Strategic Network
  • What is a strategic network and how is it different than networking?
  • What is a strategic network critical for women?
  • How to assess your current network
  • Action Planning: Closing the gaps

  
  

• Managing Complicated Conversations
  • What makes a conversation complicated?
  • Why complicated conversations can be even more complicated for women
  • How we can get in our own way
  • Vignette
  • How to position ourselves for productive conversations
  • Action Planning: Preparing for a complicated conversation

  
  

• Getting Timely Feedback
  • What is the case for timely feedback?
  • What is helpful feedback?
  • How we can get in our own way
  • Making it easy for people to provide feedback
  • Action Planning: Inviting timely feedback

  
  

• Positioning Yourself for the “Right” Assignments
  • What is a career plan and why you should you have one?
  • How we can get in our own way
  • Vignette
  • Making it easy for people to say “yes”
  • Action Planning: Creating your career plan

  
  

• Establishing Meaningful Mentoring Relationships
  • Why formal mentoring may not be enough
  • Why one mentor isn’t sufficient
  • Engaging a mentor
  • Maintaining the magic
  • Action Planning: Working with your mentors

  
  

• Stepping Up to Leadership
  • How to lead from wherever you are – and why you should
  • How we can get in our own way
  • Identifying leadership opportunities
  • Securing buy-in
  • Action Planning: Making your value visible
    

Using a Negotiation Framework to Deal With Challenges
Negotiation is about reaching agreement – it is the way that business gets done.

But many view negotiation very narrowly – as a formal bargaining session where everyone comes to the table knowing they are there to negotiate.  And of course, it is; we refer to these situations as capital “N” negotiations.  Think about reaching an agreement about project scope and pricing with a client as an example.

However, as important and often overlooked, are the little “n” negotiations – those everyday encounters at work where decisions are made and problems are resolved informally.  Consider, for example, the situation where a team is being assembled to work on a highly visible matter – who will lead the team? Or, who will get to take the last week of August for vacation when several want it?

Often, people don’t even realize they have been in this kind of a negotiation until it’s over; in fact, some have referred to these little “n” negotiations as “drive-by” negotiations!

We believe that women can use negotiation as the way to advocate effectively for what they want and need in a style that is authentic and in a way that works in their corporate culture. When they do, not only do women benefit but their employers do as well.

Therefore, each “Just Add Women®” meeting is structured to take advantage of the same Negotiation Framework, a proven, step-by-step process.   The Negotiation Framework helps people to prepare and implement a workable strategy.

Benefits include:
Meeting Leaders spend little time preparing to lead meetings after they have mastered the Negotiation Framework.

Attendees learn to use the Negotiation Framework and enhance their negotiation skills.

Train the Trainer and consulting to ensure a successful implementation are also available.

To order, call (866) 616-9804.