The New Work
The work population is changing. Executives (both male and female) raised by working mothers have different expectations of life and work. High achievers want a thriving career and a rich home life. What new opportunities does this present for business and for business models? How does it change traditional career paths? What opportunities does it present to companies and to individuals to stand out from the crowd? What new business models, patterns and processes will enable winning companies to keep their executives creative, competitive and effective? CEO Margaret Heffernan has hired, fired and managed hundreds of dynamic, ambitious employees. She has interviewed even more for her forthcoming book. As work becomes one of many priorities, how can companies and organizations change to remain responsible, responsive and competitive?
In this presentation, you will learn
· What is changing the role of work in the hearts and minds of executives
· What it means for managers and leaders
· How business can respond to these changes to keep their best talent
· What mental models most inspire high achievers
· Which rewards count for everyone
· How to avert the "what's in it for me?" mindset
Power in a Networked World
It used to be that power derived from the top of the pyramid and the closer you were to the top, the more power you had. But now power derives from a myriad of sources - some from the bottom, some from well outside your own organization. What does this mean for organizations that want to build power across and throughout their work force? What does it mean for executives pursuing ambitious careers? How can companies leverage the personal power that the networked business world now makes available to the brightest talents? How does it change the way you think about business strategy and career strategy?
In this presentation, you will learn:
· Unexpected sources of power
· The power of leading from behind
· The difference between alliances and friendships
· The value of being smart over the value of being big
The Undiscovered Natural Resource
A growing body of research points to the tremendous management strengths that women bring to organizations - yet corporations continue to lose their smart women at an alarming rate. Contrary to popular mythology, most of them aren't leaving to have babies - but because they find traditional organizations uninspiring and unrewarding. What can companies do to make their businesses attractive to women? How do businesses retain the best women, and attract more? How can companies leverage the great women they have to build larger, more sustainable profits? Heffernan has worked in large organizations and run her own businesses and knows that keeping women is not just a matter of a parental leave and a little flex time. And she argues that when you make a company great for women - you make it better for everyone. So where do you start?
In this presentation, you will learn:
· The advantages for both men and women in attracting and retaining women
· What women dislike most about traditional businesses - and how to change this
· The economic value of attracting and retaining women
· Why these issues matter to every business discipline - not just HR
Small is Big
As women and minorities achieve senior positions within major businesses, they seek to craft their own authentic forms of leadership that feel organic, natural and comfortable. So where are the new sources of power and influence? What new forms of leadership release original thinking to drive a business forward? Where are the big wins in new management styles? CEO Margaret Heffernan has run businesses in the US and UK and has watched new and old management styles merge into powerful ways of working.
In this presentation, you will learn:
- What the nature of power is in the modern business world
- How to think about power in a way that inspire those around you
- How to exercise power with authenticity
- The essential differences between personal power and job power
How High Can You Go?
Women are assailed by stories about opt-out women who abandon the office and desert the corporate world. The implication is that they are returning to the kitchen to bake cookies and sew costumes for the school play. The reality, of course, is completely different: most women now work and many are the main breadwinner in the household. So how should women think about and plan for their business lives, what holds them back and what helps them surge ahead? CEO Margaret Heffernan looks at the tactics women have devised to succeed on their own terms in a business world which they now shape more and more in their own image. She argues that how far you go depends on where you start, how you plan - and what you want.
In this presentation, you will learn
· How to think about career planning
· How to negotiate for better salaries, projects and positions
· How to deal with opposition, chauvinism and discrimination
· How to keep a whole life going while pursuing a dynamic career
Where Does Power Come From?
Women everything they need to make it to the top except, perhaps, a positive concept of power. So what kinds of power make women successful? What strategies are most comfortable for women and feel most authentic? How can high achieving women develop their professional power and still feel entirely comfortable in their own skin? CEO Margaret Heffernan has run several companies and learned, through her own and her employees' experience, what works for women.
In this presentation, you will learn
· How to build your own old girls' network
· How to identify choices when it feels like you don't have any
· Why money really does matter
· How to develop ways of working that make you happy
The Whole Life
The old divisions - wife at home, husband at work - don't work any more because they're not economically viable and because they are unfair. How to balance personal commitments with work commitments remains the primary chronic problem that employed people struggle with. CEO and parent, board member and writer, Margaret Heffernan looks at the strategies that companies and executives have devised to ensure that they can have careers and a life.
In this presentation, you will learn
· How being a parent can help your career
· How to think about family and career planning
· How to stay sane when your time is overbooked 100%
Think Big
As women leave traditional corporations in search of more rewarding work, many set up in businesses on their own. How hard is the entrepreneurial road - and what do women need to know before getting started? Margaret Heffernan shares her checklist of the ingredients they need to succeed, and her observations of what they already have that gives them a significant head start. Heffernan has advised and assisted many new businesses and feels passionately that women most often underestimate their abilities and their chances of success. No better time to think big! She will share many examples of women who have hatched an idea at the kitchen table, and grown business that really do change the world.
In this presentation, you will learn
· The common mistakes of women business owners - and how not to make them
· How to approach investors
· How to think about new business opportunities
· What it takes to be a successful female business owner
Fixing The Thinking Deficit
In a world of increasing complexity, contingency and discontinuity, companies need to leverage the full capacity of their employees' thinking. But research shows us that almost no company does this. What is it about company cultures that militates against thinking -- and how can we improve it? CEO Margaret Heffernan has worked in large and small businesses in the US and UK and observes that there is that a lot that companies can do to fix their thinking deficit.
In this presentation you will learn
-- why thinking is so limited
-- where barriers to thinking persist
-- where executives do most of their learning
-- how to improve the thinking capacity of your company
-- where the business value of diversity lies
About Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan understands the demands work places on our personal integrity – and shows audiences how to deal with those demands.
Balancing Work and Life: Margaret Heffernan understands how corporate cultures foster compromises in personal integrity and family values. Today she shows organizations how to leverage the ambition of people who are as committed to families and communities as they are to their careers.
Take Your Whole Self to Work: Heffernan has served as CEO of three multi-national companies and provides consulting services to several Fortune 100 companies. Now she shows audiences the value of “taking their whole selves to work” – and how they can transform the culture of work in the process.
Women in the Workplace: Research shows that women bring tremendous value to organizations. Yet corporations continue to lose capable, smart women at an alarming rate. Why? Primarily because women find traditional organizations uninspiring and unrewarding. Heffernan, author of The Naked Truth: A Manifesto for Working Women, shows companies how to make their businesses more attractive to women – to find and retain female employees
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