WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
Our Women in Leadership course is an adaptation of our Leadership course, tailored to help current or aspiring female leaders increase their awareness of who they are, what they value and how they can extend their impact within organisations.
On top of building your personal courage and confidence, you'll increase your understanding of your own perceived limitations and learn strategies to break through these perceptions. You'll also learn to identify your core strengths and ways to apply these in a leadership role, all within a safe and supportive learning environment alongside other like minded female leaders.
Outward Bound Women in Leadership puts you in real situations with real consequences. You’ll take on a series of experiential challenges using the bush and waterways of the Marlborough Sounds as your classroom. You’ll work through situations while tramping, camping, at sea and in the water and during height activities, that will all challenge you physically, mentally and emotionally. These outdoor activities are combined with expertly coached reflection and workshops, which will help you maximise the impact of your learning.
The course includes expert leadership coaching throughout, as well as pre-course psychometric testing. You’ll complete the Team Management Profile (TMP), which assesses working styles. The results are explored in workshop sessions, helping you understand both your own style and how to work effectively with others. Other workshops cover key leadership topics, including courageous conversations, growth mindset, coaching models and leading through change.
Throughout the course, outdoor challenges build courage and confidence and lessons are practical, memorable, and immediately applicable back at work.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
5 days of experiential learning
1 x business/leadership facilitator
2 x experiential instructors
Psychometric profiling and debrief
All specialist equipment
All meals (dietary requirements accommodated)
Access to supplementary clothing and footwear
Course collateral
Shared accommodation
PROGRAMME & OUTCOMES
"True leadership is built from the inside out and although the Outward Bound activities will be similar to other courses involving sailing, the solo experience, scaling rock faces and jumping off jetties, the focus will definitely be on building mettle, developing self awareness and creating a supportive peer network."
Tania Gough, Course Facilitator
BOOKINGS & FEES
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
When you come to Outward Bound, there are items that you will need to bring with you and items that we will supply. As for the things that you need to bring - we encourage you to borrow as many items as you can, or buy second hand! Check out our course gear list for a full run down and some hot tips on what to bring and what not to.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Like our Leadership courses, Women in Leadership includes workshops delivered by a trained facilitator and TMI profiling analysis. The Women in Leadership course focuses specifically on supporting students to reach professional goals with a focus on honing their own personal leadership style. Our one-week courses follow our traditional Outward Bound model with a compact course that focuses more on personal development: building confidence, realising a personal goal, better communication skills, how to work in a team and revitilising body and mind. Both courses use the beautiful outdoors as the classroom and both courses offer a range of activities including sailing, high ropes, rock climbing, river kayaking, tramping and navigation.
The minimum fitness requirement is to be able to run 3km in under 25 minutes. You do not have to be an experienced runner and will be supported by your peers and instructors during all activities. Running is only a small part of the programme.
You need to be able to swim and/or paddle in deep water and be comfortable with putting your head under water. During water based activities, you will be wearing a lifejacket.
No. All participants are required to meet the medical and physical requirements for the course, but there is no specific age limit.
Please note - this is for Professional, Women in Leadership and Wellbeing courses only.
Activities on the Leadership courses are simply the vehicle for learning, not the overall focus of the programme. In fact one of the most important elements of your programme is a series of facilitated review sessions. Participants take time to reflect on their performance and process the days events, guided by their facilitator. With this, and the use of peer feedback, participants are able to assimilate their learning and behaviours back to the workplace.
Yes! We can help you build a training case to present to your manager to show them the value of an Outward Bound course.
Get in touch with our friendly team here and they'll provide you with the relevant tools to help build your case.
LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP
After completing our Women in Leadership course, Anna, Lisa and Stacey share the learnings they're taking forward into leadership and the adventures they had on our Women in Leadership course in the Marlborough Sounds.
LIFE-CHANGING LEARNINGS
Catherine Saganic shares her learnings from completing our 5-day Women in Leadership course. "The course was an experience that is so hard to articulate to people who haven’t been - it was completely life-changing.”
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