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Join our one-day online workshop Stratego for women.
Would you like to join?
Contact us at info@intouchwrm.nl
Who should join
This one-day online workshop is intended for growth-minded women who want to get more influence on their own career and on the world while staying authentic.
What this workshop covers
This one-day workshop is about the strategic infinite game at the workplace, the unwritten rules of this game and players with biggest influence at the workplace.
Why it matters
Both women and men have a mix of feminine and masculine working styles and behavioural archetypes in themselves. Depending on the way we are made biologically, the way we are grown up and our work environment, we tend to dominantly use one or the other style.
When women use a more masculine style, they can get labeled as too aggressive. On the other hand, if they use a more feminine style, they can get viewed as less competent. That’s why it is important to be aware of both styles and combine them in order to get more influence on your career and on the world.
“We believe that the world would be a better place for everyone if women would have more influence on the world.” – Elisa, Mira and Monic (In Touch team)
What you’ll learn
You will learn the differences between feminine and masculine preferred working styles and how to strategically adopt both styles in order to reach their career goals, influence the decision making process in your organisation and have more fun at work. The participants will learn to recognise 11 behavioural archetypes and will get practical tips on how to influence each of them. Each participant will draw field of influence around a strategic goal, recognise what are the key players in the field of influence and make a strategy on how to influence key players to reach their goals.
Facilitators
This workshop will be facilitated by our Senior Partner Dr. Ing. Mira Vasic.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic is a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and Senior Lecturer at International EMBA programs at Geneva Business School. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and she has been a post-doc at Eucentre in Pavia and visiting scholar at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (School of Civil Engineering).
In the past ten years, she has been working as researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sector in Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands. Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering women.
She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for women and men living all around the World.
Where
Online, we will work with MS Teams
Would you like to join?
Contact us at info@intouchwrm.nl and we’ll get in contact with you!
Join our three-hour trademark workshop Stratego for women® in Barcelona.
When and where
Friday 20th September 2024
9:00h – 12.00h
Juno House, Carrer d’Aribau, 226, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, 08006 Barcelona
Who should join
This workshop is intended for growth-minded women who want to get more influence on their own career and on the world while staying authentic.
What this workshop covers
This workshop is about the strategic infinite game at the workplace, the unwritten rules of this game and players with biggest influence at the workplace.
Why it matters
Both women and men have a mix of feminine and masculine working styles and behavioural archetypes in themselves. Depending on the way we are made biologically, the way we are grown up and our work environment, we tend to dominantly use one or the other style.
When women use a more masculine style, they can get labeled as too aggressive. On the other hand, if they use a more feminine style, they can get viewed as less competent. That’s why it is important to be aware of both styles and combine them in order to get more influence on your career and on the world.
“We believe that the world would be a better place for everyone if women would have more influence on the world.” – Elisa, Mira, Lisa Aleksandra and Monic (In Touch team)
What you’ll learn
You will learn the differences between feminine and masculine preferred working styles and how to strategically adopt both styles in order to reach their career goals, influence the decision-making process in your organisation and have more fun at work. The participants will learn to recognise 11 behavioural archetypes and will get practical tips on how to influence each of them.
Did you know?
More than 3.500 women from all around the world goes through this workshop and 90% of them says that it was an eye opening for them!
This workshop is based on our best-selling book Stratego for women®
Facilitators
This workshop will be facilitated by our Senior Partners Dr. Ing. Mira Vasic and Msc. Lisa van Blaricum.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic is co-owner and a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and Senior Lecturer at International EMBA programs at Geneva Business School. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and she has been a post-doc at Eucentre in Pavia and visiting scholar at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (School of Civil Engineering).
In the past ten years, she has been working as researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sector in Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands. Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering women.
She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for women and men living all around the World.
Msc. Lisa van Blaricum is co-owner and a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ has a background as a sustainability expert in the financial sector, where she has held both substantive and executive roles.
Lisa now boasts years of experience in leading large, complex teams with highly educated members. Her heart beats faster when she can assist (young) ambitious women in taking leadership positions within an organization. Lisa is people-oriented, yet a true pioneer who is not afraid of challenges. She loves to challenge existing norms, thereby empowering others to overcome obstacles.
Would you like to join?
Contact us at info@intouchwrm.nl and we’ll get in contact with you!
Investment: 495€, incl. VAT and a hard copy of our book Stratego for women® for each participant.
Live in-person one-day workshop ‘Stratego for Women’
Contact us for organising this workshop live at your company
Who should join
This one day LIVE in-person workshop is for growth-minded women who want to get more influence on their own career and on the world while staying authentic.
What this workshop covers
This one-day workshop is about the strategic infinite game at the workplace, the unwritten rule of this game and players with biggest influence at the workplace.
Why it matters
Both women and men have a mix of feminine and masculine working styles and behavioural archetypes in themselves. Depending on the way we are made biologically, the way we are grown up and our work environment, we tend to dominantly use one or the other style.
When women tend to use more masculine style, they can get labeled as too aggressive. On the other hand, if they use more feminine style, they can get viewed as less competent. That’s why it is important to be aware of both styles and combine them in order to get more influence on your career and on the world.
“We believe that the world would be a better place for everyone if women would have more influence on the world.” – Elisa, Mira, Gerdi and Monic (In Touch team)
What you’ll learn
You will learn the differences between feminine and masculine preferred working styles and how to strategically adopt both styles in order to reach their career goals, influence the decision making process in your organisation and have more fun at work. The participants will learn to recognise 11 behavioural archetypes and will get practical tips on how to influence each of them. Each participant will draw field of influence around a strategic goal, recognise what are the key players in the field of influence and make a strategy on how to influence them to reach their and fulfil their mission.
Facilitators
This workshop will be facilitated by our Senior Partner Mira Vasic.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic is a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and Senior Lecturer at MBA programs of Politecnico di Milano Business School. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and she has been a post-doc at Eucentre in Pavia and visiting scholar at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (School of Civil Engineering).
In the past ten years, she has been working as researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sector in Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands. Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering women.
She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for women and men living all around the World.
Would you like to organise this workshop at your company?
Would like to pay by bank transfer for this workshop?
Contact us at info@intouchwrm.nl and we’ll get in contact with you!
Link to: Contact
Testimonial
Genuinely interesting and helpful, great time-keeping and dealing with questions. I gained a lot of insight in how I collaborate with others. I know better how to influence people to achieve my goals. Interesting insights, good interaction, trainer made an effort to make sure everyone is involved and was attentive; good structure/regular breaks.
Online workshop ‘Negotiations for women’
About
Workshop lasts 2h with one 10min break in between.
Where
Live virtual
If you don’t ask you will get nothing!
What this workshop covers
Many women think that if you work hard, everyone will notice and you will be properly financially awarded. In the real business life, we have to negotiate our financial compensations! It’s one of the most critical factors for success. In this workshop, you will get a understanding the negotiation process and get practical tips on how to negotiate your salary.
What you’ll learn
- the different stages in negotiating
- when the negotiation actually starts
- how to prepare
- how to use the checklist for preparing
- how to deal with ‘no’ as an answer
- how to recognise a ‘yes’
- how do adapt your style to get what you want
- how to see negotiation as a game
The workshop will be very practical, interactive and filled with humour!
Why it matters
Did you know:
- that only 7% of young women negotiate their first salary against 57% of young men
- that women are better negotiators than men unless they negotiate for themselves
- that there is still a 12% salary gap between women’s and men’s salaries
- that you have to negotiate about everything, not only about salary but also budgets, projects you want to run, working hours etc.
- that you get a lot of respect for being a tough negotiator
Added value of this workshop
After this workshop you will understand the power of preparing for a negotiation. You will know how to respond to a first ‘no’ and realise that you can prepare for that first ‘no’, the second ‘no’, the third ‘no’ etc. You will realise that negotiations are nothing else than playing a game with several rounds.
Who should join
Women who want to get properly paid for what they do.
Facilitator
This workshop will be facilitated by our Senior Partner Dr. Ing. Mira Vasic.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic helps individuals to develop their strategic leadership skills and organisations to become truly inclusive. She is an expert on topics of female leadership and gender-diversity. Mira is a frequently asked international keynote speaker and teaches IEMBA courses for Geneva Business School. She is a Senior Partner and co-owner of ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and has a tremendous passion for empowering women.
In the past 10+ years, Mira has been working as a researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sectors in Serbia, Spain, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands. She also holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and fluently speaks 4 languages. Her value is her enthusiastic approach and her great sense of humour.
Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering women. She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for female expats living all around the World.
Link to: Contact
Testimonial
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I felt it deep. After 3 years I found that there is no growth opportunity within the company. That made me resign my job. There is also a myth that some companies follow – people are given positions and growth according to their academic degrees while the actual talent and hard work are neglected. Same happened to me, I am a non engineer yet I solely handle the tasks performed by 2 engineers, but I was always undervalued. Now I understand that I should asked for a better position and salary and that everything is negotiable. Your training made me really think more deep. Thanks.
Anonomous
Online workshop ‘Levels of influence! Levels of power and effective communication’
Where
Live virtual
What this workshop covers
This workshop is about the different levels of power that we all can use to reach our goals in a less stressful and more successful way like:
- Power derived from being helpless
- Power derived from alliances
- Power derived from visibility and profiling
- Power derived from reflection and self-knowledge
- Power derived from personal vision and servant leadership
During this workshop you will get insight in these five levels of personal power. These levels are the path that people take in developing their own personalities, which is in fact the same path they take when developing their leadership qualities. Anyone can step into this system at any level, but they can also get stuck at any level. Today’s successful leader needs to be able to assimilate all the levels and apply one or another at any given moment. We learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the different levels and how to use them strategically.
About a week before the workshop starts you will receive a questionnaire. With this you will find out which level is your most favorite one.
All these different levels will be discussed with interesting video material.
Why it matters
Today’s successful leader needs to be able to assimilate all the levels and apply one or another at any given moment. Do you for instance admire Yacinda Ardern, Angela Merckel or any other female leader? All these women are true leader and are using all these different levels
What you’ll learn
You will learn about the different levels of power and how to shift from one to the other. You will also understand why you sometimes end up in an agressive conversation or in one where you just give in. In both ways you might be dissatisfied. By using these different levels and knowing when to use the right level makes work less stressful and much more easy.
Who should join
Women who want to develop more leadership skills and are curious about the different levels of influence.
Facilitators
This workshop will be facilitated by our Senior Partner Mira Vasic.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic is a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and Senior Lecturer at MBA programs of Politecnico di Milano Business School. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and she has been a post-doc at Eucentre in Pavia and visiting scholar at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (School of Civil Engineering).
In the past ten years, she has been working as researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sector in Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands. Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering highly educated women.
She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for female expats living all around the World.
Link to: Contact
Testimonial
Mira is really great! I went to many career trainings and I read about the topic of female leadership, but often the same stories are going around. This practical training, explaining these different levels of influence is really an eyeopener!
Nevena Marinkovic, NIS
Online Live Workshop ‘Gender bias’
“If you have a brain, you have bias”
Where
Online
What this workshop covers
This 2,5-hour interactive workshop is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about what exactly bias is, how it starts and how to become aware of it. You will understand what your own biases are and how to recognise when others are biased. It’s very simple. Everyone has unconscious biases and makes assumptions.
Why it matters
Because we all are biased we unconsciously judge people by their appearance, how they act, how they talk, color, gender etc. By doing that we unconsciously exclude people and their talent. Many companies want to have an inclusive culture. Being aware of bias is the basis to start an inclusive culture. Being aware that people are biased to you can help you to act in a much more effective way.
What you’ll learn
During the workshop, five forms of bias will be discussed:
• Likeability bias
• Performance bias
• Attribution bias
• Maternal bias
• Affinity bias
We will explain the bias that we all have and focus mainly on work-related situations. We will discuss several practical real live situations where bias occurs. During this interactive and practical workshop we will show different short video’s and research results. Of course we use a lot of humor and you will shut down your computer with several eye-openers and a smile.
Who should join
Women and men who want to understand what bias is, their own bias and how to use it in their own favour. But also companies really want to be inclusive.
Facilitators
This workshop will be facilitated by our Senior Partner Mira Vasic.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic is a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and Senior Lecturer at MBA programs of Politecnico di Milano Business School. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and she has been a post-doc at Eucentre in Pavia and visiting scholar at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (School of Civil Engineering).
In the past ten years, she has been working as researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sector in Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands. Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering highly educated women.
She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for female expats living all around the World.
Link to: Contact
Testimonial
The women’s network of my company organized this workshop for us. Because so many wanted to attend this masterclass, there were waiting lists. I was so happy I could join. Mira and Monic had it organized perfectly. They have a lot of knowledge and they use the most updated research of very well known Universities like Harvard and Stanford. Both of them have personal examples and lots of humor. I really enjoyed this interactive workshop. And from now on I will try to ask myself questions before I make up my opinion.
anonymous, Deloitte
Online workshop ‘Dutch working culture in academic and business environment’
What this workshop covers
To get budgets, projects and positions, you need to interact with your Dutch colleagues and such interactions can be different from what you are used to in your home country. ‘Dutch style of doing business’ is much more than just Dutch people being direct – it is about the unspoken and unwritten rules and beliefs which are difficult to discover for people coming from different cultural backgrounds and working environments. We will discuss:
- facts on women employment in The Netherlands.
- what is expected from women in Dutch working culture
- real life working situations in The Netherlands
- why the Dutch respond in a certain way
- how you can deal with working situations and expectations effectively without losing your own identity
- what are cultural biases that you can encounter
- how Dutch people see foreigners
The workshop will be very practical, interactive and filled with humor!
Why it matters
Did you know:
- less than 30% of senior level positions are held by women in the Netherlands
- average hourly wages of women are 14 percent lower than those of men’s in the Netherlands
- one in four foreign female employees with a high wage level come from England or Germany
- foreign people automatically get a lower power ranking in Dutch academia and business
- this workshop is jointly designed by all of our 3 partners: Mira, who is working and living as an expat in the Netherlands for past 5 years; Monic, who was born and raised in Australia; and Elisa, who is our expert on Dutch unwritten rules
What you’ll learn
You will learn how to build a successful career at a Dutch university or a company. You will get insight in several strategies and how to deal with then in a relaxed way without losing your own identity and background. You will walk away with a better understanding of the local working culture, and what are the preferred working styles of Dutch women and men. We will provide you with tools for recognizing cultural bias and inspiration on how to react to it. You will get practical tips on how to be perceived as a competent professional by local colleagues. During the workshop, you will meet other like-minded expat women, exchange and discuss career challenges and opportunities.
Who should join
Women that want to be successful in the Dutch working culture, be equally treated as local colleagues and have a good working relationship with their Dutch colleagues. The Group will be small with maximum of 12 participants to ensure a personal and safe environment.
Facilitator
This workshop will be facilitated by one of our experienced trainers.
Dr. ing. Mira Vasic is a senior partner at ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and Senior Lecturer at MBA programs of Politecnico di Milano Business School. She holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and she has been a post-doc at Eucentre in Pavia and visiting scholar at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (School of Civil Engineering).
In the past ten years, she has been working as researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sector in Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands. Mira has passion for leadership development and empowering highly educated women.
She is trainer on topics of gender equality, female leadership and she is a career advisor for female expats living all around the World.
Where
Online or in person
Investment
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Testimonial
What a productive Sunday afternoon attending a virtual workshop on female leadership held by Mira Vasic from ! I loved it! Mira started the session with a teaser on a couple facts on women employment in The Netherlands.
Did you know that only 27% of dutch women work full-time? It was only in 1956 when dutch married women could start working. Really interesting!
My biggest key takeaway from the session was about different type of personas women and men show at workplaces. It’s crucial for us to recognize these styles in ourselves and our colleagues and determine which one is the best in a certain situation, even though everyone holds one most dominant style.
Agne Nainyte, Schuberg Philis
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