Women Leadership Seminar Offers Unique Experience For Learning Leadership And Communication Skills

The Strategic Edge, a company in New York, NY, founded and owned by Meredith Gardner, Ph.D., offers a number of seminars and training courses to improve across the board communications in business and personal lives. They are now proud to announce that they have developed a new seminar, which can be delivered in one or two days. This seminar has been designed to create a unique experience for women of ingenuity and initiative, providing them with leadership and communication skills for even greater effectiveness. This is an in-house seminar for a company, and more about this can be gleaned from the company website at www.strategic-edge.com.

Meredith Gardner herself says: "In today's complex organizations, we are often challenged to provide others with what they need, get what we want, and simultaneously sustain rapport within relationships. Doing so effectively, with the ever-increasing pace of change, demands new levels of communication and interpersonal skills among leaders, managers, team members, and individual contributors."

The new seminar 'Communication Skills for Even Greater Personal Effectiveness' responds directly to a clear need by providing women with practical knowhow that can be immediately applied in the workplace and the home. As shown on www.strategic-cio-solutions.com, which focuses on seminars for CIOs and IT experts, the seminar has been designed for technical women, particularly those who are STEM graduates. The seminar will enhance their expertise in building multi-level communication bridges by applying their feminine interpersonal savvy and by creating successful trust-based relationships. These skills are critical to achieving effective working relationships and collaboration.

Some of they key elements that will be discussed during the seminar include rapport (what to do when it is lacking), trust (how to build it and repercussions when it is absent), active listening skills, questioning styles for even better results, giving and receiving feedback (constructive versus critical), handling conflict (difficult people and tense situations), and collaboration (components for success).

Meredith, who uses her particular skills as shown on www.linkedin.com/in/meredithgardnerphd, adds: "Many CEOs who make gender diversity a priority by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior positions, and developing mentoring and training programs are frustrated. They and their companies spend time, money, and good intentions on efforts to build a more robust pipeline of upwardly mobile women, and then not much happens. I show participants how to build on their feminine interpersonal savvy, and how to use this to improve processes overall."