Bowen Basin Women in Leadership Program Update
Our first instalment of our Bowen Basin Women in Leadership mentoring program on July 11 was a great success!
Prior to the workshop, each participant completed a strengths assessment to explore their potential impacts in the workplace. The strength assessment is a series of questions that helps place responders into one of four strength domains.
The Four Strength Domains:
Executing
Hardest working of the bunch
Get things done with speed, precision, and accuracy
Put in the hard work now, so that when it’s time to move, they are ready
Putting ideas into action is the strength of this domain
Influencing
Enable individuals or groups to sell the big ideas
Able to take charge, speak up and be heard
Extremely helpful when you need to reach a broader audience, or meet a bigger goal - both internally with the team, or to external constituents
Tend to influence forward
Relationships
Have innate ability to take human component into the equation
Look at how individuals fit into the bigger picture & create pathways for them to thrive
Create strong relational connections that bind a group together around a cause, idea or each other
Unique ability to create groups & organizations that are much greater than the sum of their parts
May keep team's collective energy high and people involved while pushing others toward bigger and better achievements
Strategic
Ability to form new ideas for solving problems or creating plans
Can take thought / idea & look for best way to move forward on it
Absorb / analyse & may help understand how past events influenced present circumstances or navigate the best route for future possibilities, analysing countless opportunities and information collected
As a group, we identified where each participant sat in the four domains of strength. Once everyone was placed in a strength domain, we discussed the benefits of each domain in the workplace and how they can implement them effectively.
Lastly, we discussed how the strengths can be perceived negatively and how we can work to mitigate those if we noticed them appearing in our work lives.
It was wonderful to see women from different industries and areas come together and support each other’s personal and professional growth. We’d like to thank the Local Buying Foundation for once again partnering with us to bring the program to another cohort of amazing women. We are looking forward to seeing how these sessions will help empower our current and future women in their leadership journey.
Some photos from the event
