Engage in a six week insight and journaling program and learn how women are succeeding, despite the challenges of unconscious bias. Explore your values and career opportunities to strengthen your authentic style for impact and accomplishment.
“Never underestimate your ability to lead from a place of emotional intelligence, strength and compassion. Reprogram your inner voice of confidence so you never sell yourself short when self-advocating, leave money on the table in salary negotiations or let stress get the best of you.
In this eLearning program, I’ll to show you the data that says women are excellent leaders. I’ll guide you through applying these truths to your own career and authentic personal brand identity. By the end of this six week process of education and self-reflection, you’ll envision yourself as aconfidenct, strong leader and have a career plan to make it happen!”
Dana Theus, Executive Coach
About This Program
One of the most powerful tools InPower clients recieve are structured questions and prompts to explore their own power through a reflection journal. There is no homework review, test or grade. Your journal is simply the place you go to listen more deeply to your own thoughts. Through this kind of coach-guided reflection, you’ll discover ways to reframe many of the thoughts and feelings holding you back. Join today to discover new ways to INpower yourself and your career as an authentic female leader.
In this program, I’ll be giving you readings and journaling prompts to explore in the areas below. You’ll discover new information and inspiration to power you in redefining your leadership style.
Learn what the research says about authentic feminine leadership styles (including the Double Bind for female leaders)
Tap proven, high-road shortcuts to career advancement for women
Explore intuitive and emotionally intelligent strategies to lead and manage others (and how to avoid the Double Bind!)
Discover the safest path to high-profile visibility (Dodge the Imposter Syndrome!)
Set up a 1-2-3 career development plan to activate your goals (and your dreams!)
How to make a difference with your personal commitment to lifelong mastery of your career
How it Works Each week for 6 weeks you'll receive an email with links to new articles and videos you can review. You'll also be given several journaling questions to support you in reflecting on what you've learned in reading the articles, how the information applies to you and what actions you can take to grow in these areas. You can review the topics below. Your first email will arrive as soon as you register!
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Contents
Welcome!
Welcome to InPower Women's Authentic Feminine Leadership Journaling Course!
This program is designed to bring you up to speed with some of the best, InPower, practices of leading-while-female. Each week for 6 weeks you'll receive an email with links to videos, articles and podcasts on a specific topic (see topics below). The links will include short summaries of the topic and a link to the source itself. The email also includes journaling prompts to facilitate your own reflection on these topics.
This program is provided FYI as companion reading for the InPower Women Mastermind program.
TOPIC OUTLINE: The Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership
Week 1: The State of Women in Leadership
Week 2: What You Need to Know About Unconscious Bias
Week 3: Personal Brand Strategies for Women
Week 4: Authentic Strategies for Leading & Managing Others
Week 5: Dodge the Imposter Syndrome
Week 6: Your Authentic Feminine Leadership Career Plan
Companion Reading: Guide to Women in Leadership (PDF)
PEER COACHING & MASTERMIND: You're invited!
Week 1: The State of Women in Leadership
Time to dive into our first lesson in The Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership. Before you take a deep dive into your own goals, strengths and opportunities, it's a good idea to get the facts on women's progress in the workplace, and in professional society. How does your experience compare to "the norm" as outlined by the data?
This week you'll use your journal to explore some of your own beliefs about women's progress and opportunity. How up-to-speed are you on what the data tells us about women in leadership?
Week 2: What you need to know about unconscious bias and discrimination
Ready for Lesson 2 on The Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership? This lesson on Unconscious Bias really isn't the downer you might be worried about. Some fascinating research is empowering us to think of sexism, racism and lots of other prejudices as physiological and psychological blindspots we all have. They're "caused" by the natural functions of the brain and we have more choice in whether we act on them than we think we do. The best way not to become limited by our biases is to learn to see them operating in ourselves and in others.
This week you'll use your journal to explore some of your own biases and the ones you see--inside your brain and among family, friends and co-workers--that you've allowed to limit you. What mind trick will you discover to reframe your opportunity to succeed?
Dealing with Sexual Discrimination & Self-Sabotage
The Double-Bind Of The Female Boss
What To Do When White Women Aren't Allies At Work
Effective Gender Communication
How Female Leaders Can Reduce Discrimination and Harassment
How to Get White Men on Board with Building a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Culture
How Men Can Reduce Bias in the Workplace
Week 2 Reflection Questions
Week 3: Personal Brand Strategies for Women
Now that you're grounded in the facts of women in the workplace (including an expanded view of the unconscious biases that lead to discrimination) let's get personal.
This next chapter of the Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership will take you into your own definition of career success and give you some tips for crafting your personal brand visibility. Whether you're on the brink of a job search, or just positioning yourself for future opportunities, integrating these strategies into your career toolkit will pay off far into the future.
Use your journal to identify the specific practices and tips you'll experiment with in the month ahead.
Week 3 Journaling Prompts
Create A Personal Vision of Success
Decide to Be Visible
Want An Executive Job? Get an Executive Mindset
Create a Confidence-Boosting List of Your Accomplishments
Presentation Tips I
Presentation Tips II
How to be a Thought Leader
Cultivate Mentors AND Sponsors
Tips for Attracting an Executive Sponsor
Personal Branding Tips & Traps
What does Executive Presence even mean?
Is the Best Leadership Masculine or Feminine? [video]
Leadership "Truths" Women Should Ignore
Leadership Lessons From Top Female Executives
Week 3 Reflection Questions
Week 4: Authentic Strategies for Leading & Managing Others
This week it's time to get to the heart of authentic feminine leadership. Women (and men) need to develop their own approach to leading and managing others. This goes well beyond being good at your job. It means including "leader" in your job description and your identity. It means being aware of what you do--and don't do--to get you and your team to the goal line. At the end of the day, leaders are good at their jobs, and they're good at inspiring, empowering and developing others to be good at their jobs, too.
This next chapter of the Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership will take you into an exploration of the skills and abilities that make people good at leading and managing others. You'll get tips on emotionally intelligent leadership, conflict management, hiring, change and more!
Use your journal to identify the specific practices and tips you'll experiment with in the month ahead.
Week 4 Journal Prompts
Succeeding In Your First Management Job
Develop Your Leadership Practice
Emotions vs. Emotional Intelligence
Women, Emotional Intelligence & Leadership
5 Tips to Strengthen Your Self-Efficacy
Time Management to Avoid Burn Out
Conflict Management 101
Leadership Myths About Coaching Others
Leadership Mistakes
How not to be an "accidentally" toxic boss
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TIPS: Executive Communications
TIPS: Hiring the Modern Workforce
TIPS: Change Management
TIPS: Employee Engagement
Week 4 Reflection Questions
Week 5: Dodge the Imposter Syndrome
I hope last week's lesson on leading and managing others helped you understand your leadership strengths and identify how to grow yourself into a higher-level leader. Now it's time to take on that little voice undermining your ability to get there. We all have a negative voice inside us, the one that tells us we're 'not all that,' and 'on borrowed time until someone realizes we're not as good as we say we are.' Psychologists even have a name for it: The Imposter Syndrome.
This next chapter of the Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership will help you understand The Imposter Syndrome more deeply, and the different ways it erodes your personal power. We'll also give you tools to sidestep and retrain it so your power can flow through you more easily.
Use your journal to identify the specific practices and tips you'll experiment with in the month ahead.
Week 5 Journaling Prompts
What is the Imposter Syndrome? [video]
Exploring the Imposter Syndrome [video]
Leadership, the Imposter Syndrome, and being REAL
How to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome
Tame Your Emotional Triggers
3 Steps to Confidence
What if They Still Don't Take You Seriously?
Take Back Your Power (Part I)
Take Back Your Power (Part II)
Take Back Your Power (Part II)
7 Ways to Use Your Power
Week 5 Reflection Prompts
Week 6: Building Your Authentic Feminine Leadership Career Plan
You've learned a lot these past six weeks about Authentic Feminine Leadership. Now it's time to put all that knowledge and insight to work--for you!
I've designed this final lesson to help you think about where you are in terms of where you want to be. Use the articles about how to activate your career plan to reach your dreams, along with the journaling prompts below, to focus your dreams and take action today towards making them come true tomorrow.
Bonus! You can use this section's journal prompts fluidly, over and over, to check in on your career planning as you evolve into higher levels of your potential. (See below for more on how to keep your career plan continuously evolving.)
Week 6 Journaling Prompts
How Long Should You Stay At A Job?
When Should You Begin a Job Search?
Go for Your Dream Job
The Best Careers, Fields & Companies for Women
Networking for Your Dream Job
Tips for Networking Success
Mika Brzezinski & Daniela Pierre: career advice [video]
How to Successfully Negotiate Your Salary
Your Career Is A Journey
Week 6 Reflection "Step 1-2-3 Career Planning"
You've completed the Authentic Feminine Leadership Course. Now What?
Class is dismissed!
I hope you've enjoyed enjoyed the InPower Coaching course, Guide to Authentic Feminine Leadership with me (and your journal) in depth.
I'd love to hear from you about what you've learned. What's your biggest takeaway?
I hope you have a plan to keep your development momentum going. If you'd like support, I hope you'll contact me to talk about executive coaching.
If you haven't already joined our InPower Women community, check it out! We'd love to see you at some of our upcoming events.
As a thank you for doing this work on yourself, you can use the savings code AUTHENTICLEADER20 to receive 10% off any product in the InPower Coaching Library.
“As a young professional, I’m always on the lookout for strategies to help me enhance my interpersonal and leadership skills. So many tools available today are too theoretical and not easily transferable to real life situations, but InPower is different. Using these resources, it’s easier for me to communicate effectively, and I’m not as intimidated. I highly recommend InPower materials and techniques to anyone who wants to hone their communication and leadership skills.”
K.R., RN and International Health Professional
Meet Your Coach: Dana Theus
Dana Theus is an executive and career coach specializing in helping you activate your highest potential to succeed and to shine. With her support emerging and established leaders take powerful, high-road shortcuts to developing their authentic leadership style and discovering new levels of confidence and impact. Leveraging a 25+ year career on the front lines of business, Danahas worked for Fortune 50 companies, entrepreneurial tech startups, government and military agencies
