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Beyond WISE

Between starting a career to being promoted to middle management, 50{2d8ca8a57a2be9c4e7c5f608c633b8d2972cbc20ea13f00e48eca0a2f3e4a9f8} of the female talent leave the STEM profession. Yet we need these women to stay, if we are to address the skills shortage.

Having interviewed many women who leave STEM professions, it is sad to hear that they all share similar experiences that influenced their decisions. This indicates that current initiatives are failing to have an impact on talent and skills retention.

At the Beyond WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) event, we share postgraduate research and industry evidence on how pay inequality, promotion blockages, and lack of external opportunities are experienced. Armed with this information, you will see why a different approach is needed to have a greater impact on recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce.

Join us on 30th June to find out more on:

  • The evidence that drives women out of STEM professions
  • Why industry has made insignificant progress in addressing Diversity and Inclusion
  • The small changes needed, to make big differences to promote Fairness, Inclusiveness and Respect in the workplace

Use the link below to register your place on the “Beyond WISE” event

Beyond WISE

This is a must attend event for you, if you are passionate about making a difference and/or want to succeed.

Change can only happen if you step forward. Be that person.

 

Come Forward to be Beheaded

Today in 1699, Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of Sikh’s, called together a huge crowd of over 50,000 Sikhs to join him for a meeting. This was an era in history where Sikhs were facing a difficult phase as they were facing continuous persecution at the hands of the Mughal rulers.

With everyone expecting to hear words of comfort and encouragement to stand strong, they were surprised to see the Guru draw his sword and shout ‘I want a head.’

There was a big silence, but the Guru went on repeating his demand until someone was brave enough to come forward. Guru Gobind Singh took the volunteer into his tent and after a while he came out by himself holding a sword covered in blood! The crowd gasped and started to disperse.

Then the Guru repeated his demand “I want a head” and eventually another volunteer stepped forward and went into the tent with the Guru. Yet again the Guru came out of the tent alone, with blood on his sword. The Guru repeated his action another 3 times until five volunteers had entered the tent to be beheaded.

By now, everyone who was left from a now very much depleted crowd must have been wondering what is going on. Then the Guru came out of the tent with his sword and the five men walking behind him, still alive!

‘This was a test,’ the Guru explained, ‘to see who has faith in their Guru”. This was a test of who was brave enough to fight against injustice and tyranny being suffered under the rule of the Mughals. This was the day the Khalsa was created to instill in people qualities of courage, self respect and confidence to always fight for the weak against tyranny and injustice.

How does this apply today?

Even today we are all fighting to do what is right and what we believe to be worth fighting for, yet we suppress our ideas and not follow through on actions for various reasons. There are lessons here that we can learn and apply to ourselves and in our businesses.

The three most important lessons:

Lesson 1: In the face of adversity, muster your courage and stand strong for what you believe in. If you believe something needs to be changed, be brave enough to start that something. Take a good look at yourself and what you do and challenge yourself to do what you really want to do.

Lesson 2: Have faith in yourself and others. If you believe change is needed, others will follow. The path isn’t easy and people will move away. But as the few who believe and have faith that the change is for the greater good, others will follow. Take that leap of faith.

Lesson 3: Be clear in your purpose. This is probably the most important lesson. Why do you want to do what you want to do? What are the benefits and to whom? A clear purpose can be very empowering and motivational for you to make the changes in yourself, your attitude and behaviours to reap the benefits for the greater good. Change has to start with you.

Happy Vasikhi to one and all.

p.s. If you are not familiar with Vasikhi, please do take the time do find out more.  I acknowledge I have only shared a part of the full story in this short blog.

 

Leadership and Beyond Performance

Only 32{2d8ca8a57a2be9c4e7c5f608c633b8d2972cbc20ea13f00e48eca0a2f3e4a9f8} of businesses were able to create and sustain a high performing culture of excellence beyond 20 years. The rest failed because of old way of leadership thinking. (Source: McKinsey)

Most leadership courses focuses on quick fixes needed today. This course goes beyond managing best performance. By attending this one day event, you will be able to:

Create a lasting culture of excellence

  • Sustain a competitive advantage in a constantly changing world.
  • Dramatically improve performance
  • Empower others without losing control
  • Have a healthy work/life balance

Book now on “Leadership and Beyond” to find out for yourself how to:

  • Overcome difficult challenges that drains your time and energy
  • Bridge the gaps where traditional leadership falls short
  • Deliver consistently and successfully beyond expectations

This event is designed to inspire leadership that will deliver astonishing business results.

Event Content:

  • How Organisations work – successful ones and brilliant ones
  • The Organisational Triangle of relationships
  • Working with unchangeable processes
  • Barriers to growth and excellence
  • The Big Five constant factors that influence motivation
  • Four levels of goal setting to outperform targets
  • How to change, influence and empower
  • Action Planning

Don’t take our word for it. Previous delegates fed back that by applying what they learnt on this course:

  • Anxiety and stress reduced
  • Fewer performance related issues to deal with
  • Reduction in Sickness and absenteeism
  • Improved Morale
  • Performance targets smashed
  • Time freed up

Bottom line: Ineffective leadership slowly destroys good staff, causing best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation. It takes on average £35k to replace an employee and another £35k for them to get up to speed (Source: CIPD). Can you afford to miss it?

Event Details:    

When:                                                                 Monday 16th May 2016, 9.00am to 4.30pm

Registration and welcome refreshments:    8.30am to 9.00am

Venue:                                                                Holiday Inn, Chapel Lane, Great Barr, Birmingham

Tickets:                                                               £280 per person  (includes all day refreshments)

Please contact Kaur Values Associates – info@kaurvalues.com for more information and available discounts including two for one and early bird.

The Influential Leader

An influential leader is able to continuously improve self performance and the performance of others. To be able to influence requires a great deal of confidence in you. However confidence is something you cannot touch, hold, or buy, so how can you instil confidence in yourself and influence others?

  • Learn to embrace fear with confidence,
  • Improve self performance and
  • Influence performance of others.

 

The Influential Leader workshop gives you proven tools that drive success in any aspect of your work where you need to build your confidence, sharpen your skills and be able to influence!

We share leadership models that positively influence attitudes and behaviours that drive success, and work with you so that you leave with a clear action development plan in the areas you really need support in.

So whether you want to:

  • Get Greater Recognition;
  • Influence Others Effectively;
  • Develop Specific Skills; or
  • Be More successful

 

Join us on “The Influential Leader” Workshop to confidently step out of your comfort zone start getting the results you want and deserve

 Content:

  • Case studies
  • Tools and practical sessions on proven methodologies
  • A personal development plan

Event Details:              

When:                                                       Friday 17th October,

Registration and welcome refreshments:    9.00am to 9.30am

Event:                                                       9.30am to 4.30pm

Venue:                                                     The Studio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham B2 5EP

Tickets:                                                    £240 per person  (includes all day refreshments)

 

For more information contact us at info@kaurvalues.com

or book directly  on Eventbrite by clicking here The Influential Leader