Gender in the Workplace Workshops

Class Length: 1/2 or Full Day

Overview/Description:
Gender differences can make or break an organization. Professional competence is gender neutral but the style we use to communicate and interact often differs between the sexes. Learn about gender differences, why they exist and how to interact so they don't limit your ability to succeed. Discover how men and women approach power and authority, communicate interpersonally and manage associates. Develop skills that leverage the unique strengths of both sexes while building productivity and effectiveness of the whole team.

Course Objectives:

To identify similarities and differences between male and female work styles.
To enhance interpersonal communication and management skills useful in effectively interacting with members of the opposite sex.
To enhance teamwork and productivity among men and women in the workplace.

Course Outline:

1. Skirts and Shirts

Public Debate: Equitable vs Identical
Business Case Dynamics
Workplace Challenges and Accomplishments

2. How We've Gotten Where We Are: Focus on Power, Authority and Interpersonal Communication

Sociobiology: combination of social and science impacts
Physiology: our natural skills and learned competencies
Psychology: individual uniqueness and genderless personalities

3. How We Can Leverage Our Differences

Rituals of Conversation
Art of Communication
Advise from the Experts

4. Putting It Together

Personal Landmines
Action Plan for Change
Call to Action

Audience: All employees, all levels

Transition Dynamics is based in Seattle Washington. We serve clients throughout Washington (like Tacoma, Spokane and Olympia) and throughout the United States.

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800 Fifth Avenue Suite 4100
Seattle, WA 98104
phone: 206-547-2901
fax: 206-470-1150