Participants: Women in Senior Leadership Roles
The pain:
In 2003 New Zealand ranked 4th out of the 36 OCD countries with the highest representation of women in senior management. By 2009 the ranking had dropped to 17th. In 2010, of the last 22 public service departmental chief executive positions, only one woman was appointed and that was as chief executive to the Ministry of Women's Affairs. Global Women’s vision for Women in Leadership is to build a large and sustainable pipeline of women leaders across New Zealand’s large private, public and non-profit organisations, including developing the next generation of New Zealand women leaders.
Called the Global Women BreakThrough Leaders Programme, this is the first step in the Women in Leadership initiative.
The inaugural BreakThrough Leaders programme has provided its 16 participants with high calibre networks, high-level mentoring, and targeted professional and personal learning to significantly increase the number of participant women progressing to senior positions one to three years after programme completion. Global Women has brought together a standout group of New Zealand organisations from the public, private and non-profit sectors to advance the programme’s vision of building a large and sustainable pipeline of women leaders in New Zealand.
The results:
The following are deemed to be noticeable and substantial impacts by the participants as a direct result of JOLT Challenge:
100% felt that they have a better Self Intelligence and better self-awareness
100% felt they had become more effective in their communication at work
85% experienced a better emotional balance
85% felt they can effectively solve work and other problems
100% of the participants would recommend JOLT Challenge
What the client says:
“The JOLT Challenge was incorporated into the Global Women inaugural Breakthrough Leaders’ programme in 2010. Perfectly complementing the Breakthrough Leaders’ programme, the JOLT Challenge provided a comprehensive introduction into the field of self intelligence, which lies at the core of our programme. The JOLT Challenge was chosen as it explores important personal issues in a fun and supportive environment. Almost without realising it, the participants were encouraged to set a deep foundation from which they were well equipped to explore their self-knowledge and their own leadership capacity and style in more depth over the 12 month duration of the programme. The Challenge also enabled the participants to get to know each other well and to form strong bonds, which have strengthened and grown over the duration of the programme. The Programme participants have constantly referred to tools and techniques that they picked up in the JOLT Challenge during the course of the year. So, it has definitely been a strong foundation from which to build the leadership development in our Programme. We will be using the JOLT Challenge again for the next Breakthrough Leaders’ programme.”
— Yvonne McLean, Programme Director
Testimonials:
“A unique opportunity to participate in a programme that through a combination of self assessment, new insights, mental exercise, honesty and meditation you can take a holistic look at yourself and the means by which you can develop your potential and hence be more comfortable in yourself and more attuned to the needs of others.”
— Maureen, Genesis Energy
“The JOLT Challenge can only be described as a journey for me! It's opened up a whole new level of understanding of who you are as a person – physical drivers, your emotions but most importantly how you can control and influence all of that. I've learnt some fantastic tools that I've used in all different aspects of my life (at work, with my kids and at home). This is not a once off course, it's the start of a long term change where they put you in control.”
— Victoria, Telecom
“The JOLT Challenge helps you to draw out that inner person who is bursting to break the mould of mediocrity, complacency and normality to being a world changer!!”
— Rukumoana, NZ Centre for Social Innovation
“JOLT brings together many concepts, which once read seem so obvious, but often evade us in day today life. JOLT has given me the opportunity to contemplate these concepts and easily put them into use in day to day life.”
— Belinda, Westpac
“JOLT Challenge is a program that will impact on all parts of your life positively. The experience of being on this program has been reflective in my career, with successes around embracing change and taking on new challenges. My learning’s also were reflected through to my success of completing my first Ironman. Using a number of the tools we learned from managing stress, prioritizing the many commitments, coupled with the visualization and believing in myself, formed a well executed training program. But more importantly this program took me on a personal journey. By defining my beliefs, values, embracing and understanding emotional intelligence while utilizing very tangible exercises daily such as breathing and relaxation techniques has enabled me to live my life how I want to live it. Thank you for the opportunity to accelerate the journey of my success.”
— Zahra, Uniservices
"JOLT has been an amazing journey for me. A holistic approach to personal development – digging deeper than any other programme I have participated in and providing tools and techniques that I now draw on daily."
— Lara, Pricewaterhouse Coopers