Well, in this new year,
if you are hoping to grow your
leadership skills and kick some glass,
see what I did there as in the glass ceiling,
you get what I'm talking about.
Leadership Louisville is offering
a number of courses that can
help you sharpen up your skills.
I'm joined by Cynthia and Apex,
CEO of Leadership Louisville,
to let us know about all these great classes.
And Cynthia, happy New Year, happy New Year.
It's great to have you back.
I'm excited to be here.
I mean, we have a lot to be excited about.
I mean, this is like the year of the woman.
I think
so. So well, and it's also
like I I love new year anyway.
It's New Year's, you know,
resolutions and good intentions and
there's new electeds and it feels fresh.
But I also think we're reinventing
the world of work right now.
It's been a time of change.
And if we want better results for our world,
then we need better leaders.
And so I'm excited to be right
in the middle of all that, you
know? And I feel like so many more
people want to step up to the plate.
Like I I want to be in that position.
And you guys are really helping women in
this first set of classes. These. These.
Seminars to arm them with the skills of
this is how you can be a great leader,
this is what you can do.
Kind of like unpack.
What will you learn in this leadership class?
Well, one of the things
that we like to do is we like to look
at high performance teams and how do we
get things done in the best possible
way using our our human development.
And what we realized is that
women are uniquely positioned to
thrive to to be fantastic leaders,
right when you pull the audiences,
there's all this survey research
that says what we're looking for
in our leaders is a diverse.
Team is an empathetic.
Team is good communicators,
emotional intelligence,
emotional intelligence, right?
And these are things that women excel at.
But there's a gap analysis there, right?
So we were looking at this and what
it looks like is men and women
enter the workforce at about the
same rates and then each promotion.
Manager hmm.
The rates slip a little bit and
we see more men in manager roles
and then supervisor and the rate
slips a little bit more.
And by the time we get to CEO,
there's only about 8% of
Fortune 500 CEO's are women.
So we wanted to do a gap analysis.
Well,
if we really think women
are positioned to excel,
but we don't see them getting promoted,
how do we bridge that gap?
And our January course is about find
your voice and it's all for women.
And it really is the thing that.
Helps bridge that gap.
Wonderful. What kinds of things
will they learn in that course?
Yeah. So we'll do negotiation skills,
which that is the hardest. Cynthia. That
is we're afraid to ask for
things or, you know, counter.
And I don't want to be rude and
offend you kind of thing. Yeah.
That's exactly right.
I'm huge fan of teaching negotiation skills,
not just about ask for
more money in your salary.
But negotiation skills are about
how we get everything you got.
It's how we get everything.
But this course focuses on
three basic things which is.
And we start with confidence.
Let's build that two solid feet on the
ground and then we look at connections.
How do we,
I always talk about having a voice is
about say the thing that needs to be said.
In a way that others will hear you.
Hmm. Alright,
so we talk about connection and how
that resonates with other people.
And then we talk about courage.
Not just like courage to jump out of a plane,
but the courage to just make
asks and to make things,
to turn your thoughts into actions
and not be afraid of asking for things,
right, overcoming that fear.
We've also seen a little bit of
video with that leading better brand.
That's a whole new brand for you guys.
It is so for leadership,
Louisville has been around for about.
40 plus years and for a long time what we
did was we focused on civic leadership.
So that is all about your connection with
what we talk about and we want people to
be better and then go out and do better.
But what we realized is that if we
want good leaders in our community,
we need good leaders in our organizations.
So leadership Louisville has
traditionally been our civic leadership
brand and we wanted to do more.
Leading better is our new brand
that will partner with leadership
Louisville and it will be about
all those skills that you learn,
just small things,
recent ink article right said 91% of us
think our boss is a terrible communicator.
Do they know that?
Your boss is amazing,
my boss is wonderful,
totally amazing cause we're led by
all women here, so there you go.
That's why Gallup poll says.
24% of us think that our boss
has our best interest at heart.
That's not enough. That's terrible.
So what if that was reversed, right?
What if 91% of us thought our boss had
their had our best interest at heart?
What if our bosses were great
communicators leading better?
The brand that we're launching with
leading better teaches all of those things.
And you have a leading
better summit coming up?
We do on March the 9th.
Can people find out more
information on the website
about getting involved in that?
Yes, we'd love to have
people come to the summit.
It's at the Kentucky Center. It's huge.
We bring in speakers from all over the
country to inspire you, to equip you.
So please come hang out with
us and sharpen your leadership.
Saw, we would love to see you.
Whether you have women in your
network that need to come to the find
your voice program or whether you
have any aspiring leader who just
wants to be better and do better.
Cynthia, always great catching up with you,
finding my voice here, all right to
learn a little bit more information.
Find out about that.
Summit and those find your voice classes
and those women's leadership classes
and everything that they have to offer.
Just go to leadershiplouisville.org.