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LDW PROGRAM: de Vries & Leavitt Change Process ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ Peer Learning Group Participant Group LDW Alumni Consultants/ Facilitators Planning Group Coordinator Organisational Partners Senior Men Senior Women Supervisors &
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LDW PROGRAM: de Vries & Leavitt Change Process ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ Peer Learning Group Participant Group LDW Alumni Consultants/ Facilitators Planning Group Coordinator OrganisationalPartners Senior Men Senior Women Supervisors & Colleagues Executive Champion/s Organisational Symbols Development Programs Mentors The Women ♀ The LDW Program Learningcomponents
LDW PROGRAM: de Vries & Leavitt Change Process ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ Consultants/ Facilitators Planning Group Coordinator The Women ♀ Peer Learning Group Participant Group LDW Alumni The LDW Program Learningcomponents OrganisationalPartners Senior Men Senior Women Supervisors & Colleagues Executive Champion/s Organisational Symbols Development Programs Mentors
Outcomes for the women • Career foundations • directions, confidence & belonging • Career building • networking and connecting • Career steps • priorities, promotion, secondments
Outcomes: for academic women • More pro-active in leadership • Mentoring others • Increased profile/visibility • Applied for and achieved promotion • Changes in committee participation • Increased participation in networks • Improved work life balance
hopeful inspired Go challenged empowered connected re-energized optimistic way forward reflective satisfied
Peer Learning • Based on Action Learning • Learning process, not a task (no project) • Personal learning focus around a shared theme • ‘Critical friend’ (support and challenge) • Interim report back • Small wins process • Cultural literacy • Final Presentation
We all benefited from sharing our experiences and helping each other to get the balance right. It was a great supportive group and we still keep in touch. While doing LDW I made some decisions about my future, including doing my PhD. My peer group’shonest advice and personal experiences about studying for a PhD helped me realise exactly what I was getting myself in to.
Program components • Launch • Three day core programme • Mentor scheme • Series of leadership skills workshops: career building, work/life balance, communication skills, managing working relationships, workplace culture, acting strategically, visibility • Peer Learning Groups • Final workshop
Steering Group • Terms of reference • Group composition • Strategic direction and priorities • Monitoring and evaluation • Ensuring adequate support and resourcing • Participation in program activities
Mentoring • All participants matched with a mentor • Parallel journey with the program • Two-way learning • Networks and connections to the organisation • Training and support provided for mentors and mentees
Symbols • Launch • Venue/catering – how the women are treated • Recognition of time needed to attend • How senior staff talk about the program • How backlash is dealt with -
“This is not about equity, this is about being the best institution we can be” Vice-Chancellor Alan Robson.