WELCOME TO A WOMEN AND WORKPLACE SUCCESS

PROGRAM FOR JUNIOR AND MID LEVEL MANAGERS

Why a women only program?
Global gender balance only by 2085 (at the current rate)
Business needs to focus to accelerate the
process!
120%

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%
Global Diversity Global Global Managers Senior Managers Executive Roles
Professionals
Why businesses must engage
35.1% higher
ROE reported
amongst
companies with
more women.

McKinsey Report
Why businesses must engage
Up to 69%
higher
Profitability
reported
amongst the
Fortune 500
companies with
more women.

Roy Adler Study

Why businesses must engage
Almost 120% higher
equity with the Top
10 companies
amongst the Fortune
500

Roy Adler Study

Why businesses must engage
Mc Kinsey report 2015
analyzed 15 gender
equality indicators in 95
countries
“Full-potential” participation
would add up to $28 trillion
or 26% to annual global
GDP in 2025
Facts about women at work!
India’s women contribute
only 17% compared to
global average of 37%.
China: 41%. Sub-Saharan
Africa 39%.
The overwhelming disparity
Common Perceptions
• -- A male boss is assertive; a female boss is aggressive.
• -- A male boss is attentive to details; a female boss is
picky.
• -- He knows how to follow through; she micromanages.
• -- He's ambitious; she's self-centered.
• -- He loses his temper occasionally; she can't control her
emotions.
• -- He's a man of action; she's reckless and impulsive.
• -- He controls his emotions; she's cold.
P.I.E.
The Formula for Career Success
Projects, networking,
mentorship, secondments,
volunteering, coaching,
presentations to cross
functional teams or skip
levels…

Harvey J Coleman
THE FLIGHT PATH FOR WOMEN
IS DIFFERENT
Flying Lessons Overview
Managing Internal
Impactful
and External
Workplace
Conflict
Interactions

Fuelling-up Managing Co-pilot

Taking Off Cruising
Turbulence Program

Self Discovery and

Goal Setting Excellence in
Networking and
Influencing Skills Stakeholder
Support
 Learning Journey - Details
Our workshops aim to raise aspiration levels by exposing women to ways and
means of maximizing their personal and professional potential. The intent is to
help them build confidence and overcome socialized inhibitions. More
specifically, it will equip and enable women to forge ahead in their careers under
the following 4 areas:

• Self discovery and goal setting

– A self exploration and articulation of aspirations culminating in an action
plan
• Impactful workplace interactions
– A space to explore and work on impactful communication strategies for
interpersonal success
• Excellence in networking and influencing skills
– Taking personal competence to impact the organization is the focus in this
module
• Managing internal and external conflict
– Enabling women to identify coping strategies for the inevitable professional
and personal conflict issues arising across different life-stages
 Workshop 1
Self Discovery and Goal-Setting
Module Topics or Key Learning Details

Introduction 1. Introduction to the program Activity: Juggling

2. Expectation setting Learning Goals: Post a strength
finder inventory (H-O-T-C) have the
participants share expectations in the
form of learning goals
Locus of Control 1. Defining success Activity: Winning Craft
2. Compulsions and motivation Journey Essentials: Exploring
3. Locus of control and my controls, deciding what one can and will
threshold push, control, sacrifice, risk and where
4. Circle of concern, influence, one can build teams and support
control systems
5. My crew
Role Expectations 1. Discover my self Activity: Three Mirrors activity
2. My role expectations  Discovering the multiple roles and
3. My legacy the key expectations against each
 Articulating a legacy
Goal-Setting 1. SMART Goals Activity: Stretch
2. Plan: Month – Quarter – 1 Year – Action plan for self, encompassing
 Workshop 2
Impactful Workplace Interactions
Module Topics or Key Learning Details
Point of View 1. Having a Point of View Activity: POV
2. Developing and maintaining Learning Goals: Being able to articulate a
domain expertise point of view and see different points of view
based on domain expertise – video-graphed
activity
Communicatio 1. Crafting and delivering a self Activity: A Shifting Audience
n Essentials introduction Learning Goal: The effectiveness of your
2. Your communication is the communication is based on the action at the
result you get receiver’s end - is what you intended being
3. Body language realized else change the way you communicate
4. Executive Presence Activity option: Destination Finder
Interaction 1. Assertiveness vs. Activity: Push and Push Back
Excellence Aggressiveness Journey Essentials: How to give solutions
2. Saying Yes Yes Yes! instead of saying what you can and cannot
do…
Executive 1. Being Yourself Activity: Presenting your best self and true
Presence 2. Meetings self
3. Presentations
4. Cafeteria conversations
Workshop 3
Excellence in Networking and
Influencing Skills
Module Topics or Key Learning Details

Networking 1. Networking Skills Activity: Spider’s Web

2. Agenda Learning Goal: Networking – What you want
3. Positive Networking Impressions – Whom to reach out to – Give and Take –
4. Social Networking Maintaining Connections and Relationships
Strong Agendas!

Team 1. Bruce Tuckman Model: Forming – Activity: Dance!

Management Storming – Norming – Performing Learning Goal: Managing team dynamics
2. Strategies for movement

Influence Influence Activity: Worksheet and case led activity

1. Influencing Opportunities Learning Goal: Influencing Strategies
2. 9 Influencing Strategies

Stakeholder 1. Understanding stakeholders Activity: In Their Shoes

Management 2. Perspectives across levels Journey Essentials: Mapping stakeholders
3. Delivering against expectations and their needs
Delivering and communicating results
Workshop 4
Managing Internal and External Conflict
Module Topics or Key Learning Details

Work-Life Wheel of Life Activity: Wheel of Life

Balance Identifying the source of turbulence
Handling turbulence (pregnancy, role
changes, death of a relationship-
affairs)
Negotiating space
Learning Goals: 8 anchors to a balanced life
Action planning to improve balance
Monitoring progress and checking other
sources of imbalance

Conflict 1. Difference of opinion Activity: Papers

Management 2. Constructive and destructive Learning Goals: The positives and negatives
conflict of conflict – Strategies to manage conflict
Thomas – Kilmann Conflict Mode Inventory

Dilemmas We 1. Guilt Video: Dove Video - how we see ourselves

Face 2. Dilemma Learning Goals: Managing guilt, dilemmas ,
3. Insecurities insecurities through mentors, friends and
4. Recruiting help family
Reaching out!
Individual 1. Continuous Learning Activity: 70:20:10
Development 2. Making Mentorship Work Learning Goals: Creating a continuous
Plant 3. Individual Development Plan improvement and growth focused plan
Our Other Flying Lessons Offerings

Women and Workplace Success Sessions

• 1-day quick tips session
• ½ day inspiration pack

• Sensitization Sessions for mixed audiences

• Sessions for managers of women
• Theatre-based workshops for voice and personal presence
• Women’s only outbound workshop

• Coaching
• Hogans and MBTI Assessments and feedback sessions
Flying Lessons Team
Nirmala Menon
Founder and CEO of Interweave Consulting Pvt. Lt.
Alumnus of XLRI and Temple University
Listed as one of the top 50 diversity professionals in the Global Diversity List by the Economist
Over 30 years of industry experience in India, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Mexico,
Ireland, USA…

Aparna Ponnappa
Founder of REDD Network
Alumnus of XLRI
Promoter of Experiential Learning Systems across Corporate and Education Sectors
Professional experience of over 17 years in HR, Marketing and Business Management
NLP Practitioner

Subha Chandrasekaran
Founder of RainKraft
Alumnus of XLRI
Professional experience of over 15 years in Transaction Banking, Business Management and
Financial Services
Expertise in Large Teams Management and Outsourced Processes
Our suite of offerings from Interweave

Areas of Work
Inclusive Workplace 

D&I policy articulation
Inclusion surveys & audits
 Workshops to appreciate D&I as business imperative
 Communication Collateral for culture change
 Creating employee networks
 Knowledge partner for special events on D&I

Gender Sensitization  Consulting Solutions

 Gender inclusion strategy, policies, practices
 Interactive Training Workshops
 Communication collateral to sustain momentum

Empowering Women  Workshops to overcome socialized limitations

 Planned career development
 Targeted skill building – interpersonal skills, personal branding, work-life
balance, visibility and networking
 Targeted coaching

Prevention of Sexual 

Policy articulation to ensure compliance
Training Workshops for managers & individuals
harassment  E-learning modules
 Communication Collateral
THANK YOU