strengths

Case Study: Tech Company Women's Leadership Program

As part of an ongoing relationship with one of our clients in the technology industry, we delivered a women’s leadership program to women’s ERG participants within the organization. The two-day session leading up to International Women’s Day offered participants the rare opportunity to set daily responsibilities aside and focus on their personal and professional development. By taking a step back and looking at their careers–past, present, and future–participants had space to clearly articulate their values, vision, and goals for success. Participants left the session with an expanded network, both through the cohort they bonded with over the two day program and through the intentional planning they completed to create purposeful networking, mentorship, and sponsorship goals.

Case Study: Tech Company Leadership Program

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Last December, we delivered a 2-day program to under-represented minority women at a large technology company and were invited back to share the leadership program with a broader audience of mid-level participants within the organization.

While objectives shifted slightly between the programs, we focused on developing a concrete career strategy map and layering in additional tools to help participants achieve their goals. This included clearly recognizing strengths, identifying areas of opportunity, and creating a personal board of directors to support and advocate for participants.

Across the three programs delivered to-date, we continued to track pre- and post- session benchmarking feedback. On average across the sessions, we saw an increase in agreement on key indicators:

  • My company values me and my contributions: +6%

  • My company supports me in defining my career plan: +18%

  • There are opportunities for me to progress in my organization: +15%

  • I possess the tools needed to achieve my career goals: +35%

  • I have a clear vision for my role at my company in the next 2 years: +20%

We’re looking forward to taking this program to more participants in 2020!

Case Study: Kao NOW

Our January workshop with Kao NOW, the women’s initiative at Kao, was a long-time coming as we had been planning with the initiative’s leaders for over a year to make the event a success. The topic selected by the group was Communicating Confidence for Achievement, which was paired with the creation of vision boards to kick off the new year.

Case Study: Rackspace POWER Workshop: Career Planning

Gild Collective traveled to San Antonio, Texas to deliver a Career Planning workshop for POWER—the Professional Organization of Women Empowered at Rackspace. POWER was bringing a subset of its 700 members together for the organization’s Annual Luncheon and invited Gild Collective to share our personal strategy map planning with their audience.

Mentorship Ground Rules for Eradicating Eye Rolls

I strongly believe in the power of having key mentors to guide and support you through this crazy life. By following these ground rules, we can show the impact that purposeful, time-sensitive, sometimes unexpected, but overall done-right mentorship relationships can have. Maybe we’ll even win over a few eye-rollers in the process!

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What I'm Reading: The Confidence Effect

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I bought this book because confidence has always been one of the key components to the Gild mission. From day one, we knew we wanted to encourage confidence in women through creativity and community. And now, as we continue to make changes to our business, instilling confidence in women–especially those in the workplace–is always top of mind. It’s something I consistently struggle with, even as I work to help others feel like they can take on the world.