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Pilot Program Session Outline
Seminar Format
The four-session program (spanning eight-weeks) will combine action-based learning (high stakes scenarios, Socratic dialogue and experiential exercises), cutting-edge research, and high-level conversations informed by top women executives. All participants will have ongoing access to the Thought Leadership Greenhouse network. The pilot dates are:
| • | Session 1, October 6, 2010: Foundations of Thought Leadership (1:00 – 8:00 pm, dinner included) |
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| Cutting-edge research offers insights as participants explore their expertise with a hands-on exercise designed to make them think far more expansively about their knowledge and experience, and how to use it for greatest impact. | ||
| 1. | Introduction (Shelley Correll) | |
| 2. | Exercise in Expertise (Katie Orenstein) | |
| 3. | Foundations for Leadership: examining the foundations for power and re-norming beyond stereotypes and traditional models (Deb Gruenfeld) | |
| 4. | Leadership in action: conversation with industry leaders | |
| • | Session 2, October 20, 2010: Make Your Case: The Elements of Persuasion and Influence (1:00 – 8:00 pm, dinner included) |
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| Participants will tackle key questions that push them to think more expansively about their knowledge, ideas and causes, and map the greatest impact. | ||
| 1. | In-depth OpEd Project training (Katie Orenstein). Evidence: building a credible, solid case; Building consensus – empathy and respect; Getting results: how to make a case that people will act on; and Thinking bigger | |
| 2. | “That’s Ridiculous!” exercise (Katie Orenstein). An exercise on addressing opposition—whether using empathy and respect, acknowledging and dismissing, or validating and then trumping another point of view | |
| 3. | Leadership in action: conversation with key thought leaders and gatekeepers | |
| • | Session 3, October 27, 2010: Facing Opposition: The difference between being right and being effective (1:00 – 8:00 pm, dinner included) |
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| Do women ask? In this session, we explore and practice negotiation and the impact of how we negotiate on our career and our influence. | ||
| 1. | What happens when we know we're technically right but we're not effective? (Katie Orenstein) | |
| 2. | Getting (More of) What You Want: Strategies for Creating and Claiming Value in Negotiations (Maggie Neale) | |
| 3. | Leadership in action: conversation with industry leaders | |
| • | Conference Call, November 3, 2010, Time TBD |
| Conversations with media gatekeepers |
| • | Session 4, November 17, 2010: Buy In: Presenting your ideas for impact (1:00 – 8:00 pm, dinner included) |
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| 1. | Pitching yourself and your ideas for results (Katie Orenstein) | |
| 2. | Acting with power (Deb Gruenfeld) | |
| 3. | Panel representing thought leadership forums | |
| 3. | Celebration of accomplishment | |
All sessions will take place at Stanford University. The cost is $4,500 per person.
