Events at the Maureen Bickley Centre
Strategic Intervention Series: Program 1
Mentoring for Retention
The MBC is pleased to offer a short program of highly strategic workshops for HR Managers, Recruitment staff, equity coordinators and team supervisors on how to establish and sustain successful mentoring practices for the retention of women in the workplace. A recent study (Piterman, 2008) supports the view that organisations in Australia continue to either miss out or lose much of women’s leadership contribution.
- When the business case for diversity is so clear, how do senior managers attract and retain talented women for their leadership teams?
- In a competitive work environment good mentorship can provide an edge (EOWA, 2006) and is widely recognised as essential to career development and the retention of good people, particularly women (Piterman, 2007).
Find out what successful organisations are doing to actively develop and retain their women leaders and develop some strategic tools in mentoring for retention. This innovative program, to be delivered by MBC consultants Dr Susan Harwood and Dr Linley Lord, comprises three workshops over a four-week period, enabling participants to test out some strategies between each session.
Key elements include:
- The Gender dialogue: assessing the discourse around women leaders in your workplace
- Values-espoused versus values-in-action: the policies are in place but why the continuing poor outcomes?
- Retention strategies that work: what it takes to retain good women
- Talent development and promotion – case studies
- Developing and managing strategic mentoring relationships
- Managing cultural resistance
| Date: | TBA |
| Time: | TBA |
| Place: | Graduate School of Business 78 Murray Street (cnr Pier Street), Perth WA 6000 |
| Cost: | $1500 (plus GST) for the program of three workshops |
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Strategic Intervention Series: Program 2
Generation ‘F’ - Your Competitive Edge
How to ‘discover’, attract and retain the force of Gen F*
The MBC is pleased to offer a short program of highly strategic, late afternoon workshops for senior executives and business managers on how to successfully attract, engage and retain Gen F: the cohort of women identified as underutilized, work-ready, highly experienced and well qualified in a recent report from EOWA [Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency]. While many women want more responsibility and career progression they have difficulty finding employers who value their skills, knowledge and experience; at the same time, many men are acknowledging that the workplace is a “boys club”. This series of short workshops will enable participants to engage with their experts and their peers during in-depth, confidential conversations about how to tap in to ‘Gen F’. We will work with you to identify and develop strategies to redress gendered practices that prevent a critical mass of women from entering (and remaining in) your boardrooms, senior executive groups and leadership teams.This innovative program, to be delivered by MBC consultants Dr Susan Harwood and Dr Linley Lord, comprises three workshops over a four-week period, enabling participants to test out some strategies between each session.
Key elements include:
- The Gender dialogue: assessing the discourse around women leaders in your workplace
- The Uneven Playing Field: why is it still harder for a woman to make it than a man?
- Gender bias: where and how does it begin for a new recruit in your workplace?
- Attitudinal change: challenging and eradicating dinosaur thinking
- Retaining working parents: clearing the obstacle path between policy and practice
- Attract, engage, retain: attitudes and behaviours that work – ‘Gen F’ success strategies
| Date: | TBA |
| Time: | TBA |
| Place: | Graduate School of Business 78 Murray Street (cnr Pier Street), Perth WA 6000 |
| Cost: | $1800 (plus GST) for the program of three workshops |