Diversity and Women’s Leadership

Diversity and Women’s Leadership

Rapporta’s women’s leadership development training and coaching help organisations meet their objectives for developing and promoting their female talent, and helps participants grow in confidence, communication impact and presence, which supports them in achieving their highest potential.
 
As part of the wider issue of Diversity & Inclusion, we design and deliver programmes that explore the impact of unconscious bias, how it can be minimised in the workplace, and how improved diversity and business performance can be achieved. These sessions are interactive, positive and engaging on this sensitive and important topic.

McDonald’s Restaurants

McDonald’s Restaurants UK & Europe began investing in a Women’s Leadership Development programme specifically to help achieve their objectives as part of a 5-year strategic plan. In 2008 David Fairhurst, HR Director commissioned Rapporta to both design and deliver the first Women’s Leadership Development Programme for McDonald’s UK & Europe. This programme delivered visible results and over the next 4 years, the original objective to have women in over 30% of senior management roles was surpassed.


In addition, elements of Rapporta’s women’s leadership programme were seen to be so relevant and valuable in the business that we were asked to create additional programmes which were tailored to other functions.


These programmes have been endorsed at the highest levels within McDonald’s UK & Europe.


Steve Easterbrook and David Fairhurst talk about Rapporta’s women’s leadership programme for McDonald’s.

 Sample elements of Rapporta Women’s Leadership Development



  • research the current culture – stabilisers, opportunities and barriers -related to women’s leadership
  • engagement with senior leaders to clarify goals and objectives
  • initial introductions and engagement with candidates and line managers
  • joint-design of programme and pre-course work with a focus on mindset, goal-setting, leadership impact, communication impact, executive presence and influencing in addition to client-specific topics
  • programme delivery – typically six days over 9 – 12 months
  • work-related assignments between sessions
  • implementation between sessions
  • telephone coaching as well as face-to-face coaching
  • feedback from line managers
  • reviewing, measuring and reporting results
  • measurement and formal reporting to the leadership team
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