Summit Learning Tracks & Forum Focus Areas

New This Year

Summit programming will feature elements from FWN’s Leadership Competencies. Several tracks have been updated to reflect the leadership competencies. In addition, each track will feature a section specifically tied to the language of the leadership competencies to aid presenters in proposing up-to-the-minute session programming.

Speaker Proposals will only be accepted through the online submission form.  Proposal submissions are due by midnight PDT on Monday, July 26, 2010. You should prepare your information before visiting the online submission site, and keep a copy of your submission for your records. To help you prepare, we have listed the information you will be required to submit on the electronic submission form: your name, job title, company name, contact information, a brief bio and a photo (jpeg format, 300 DPI) name, job title, company name, contact information, brief bio and photo for each co-presenter (if speaker panel is proposed) one reference for each presenter presentation title, short session description, learning objectives, and methodology

Learning Tracks For Overall Summit Programming (75-minute Concurrent Sessions)

LEARNING TRACK 1:  LEADING OTHERS

FWN Leadership Competencies for Now and the Future	Suggested Foundation Topics To Develop Skill Sets (you may combine suggested topics to create your own session topic titles)
Managing Effective Teams and Work Groups (Empowerment)	Bringing Out the Best in People: How to pull a group together around a common goal, achieving consensus even when people disagree on the best course of action, turning a group into a high-performing team.
	Forging Synergy: How to focus others’ energy on common goals, priorities and problems.  How to help subordinates resolve their conflicts constructively.  How to identify and remove barriers to promote teamwork.
Building and Maintaining Relationships (Diplomacy)	Managing Conflict: How to negotiate adeptly with individuals and groups over roles and resources.  How to manage confrontations skillfully.
	Managing Relationships: How to build cooperative relationships with different types of people including subordinates, superiors, peers and outsiders.  How to handle an unfair attack from peers with poise and how to get things done without creating unnecessary adversarial relationships.  How to settle problems with external groups without alienating them.
Valuing Diversity and Difference (Multicultural Awareness)	Leveraging Differences: How to work effectively with people who differ in race, gender, culture, age, or economic and educational backgrounds.  How to avoid prejudging or making assumptions when dealing with others who differ by gender, race, culture, age.
	Global Awareness: How to be aware of global trends and world events as it affects personal, career and organizational plans.
Developing Others (Personal Style)	Confronting Problem Employees, Peers, Outsiders: How to act decisively and fairly.
	Inspiring Commitment: How to motivate others to perform at their best, getting things done, and infusing the organization or team with a sense of purpose.
	Developing and Empowering: How to coach and encourage others to improve their performance, develop their careers, provide constructive feedback and encouraging individual initiative.
	Delegating: How to delegate responsibilities and allowing others in the team the freedom to learn through their experiences.
Communicating Effectively (Diplomacy)	Communicating Information and Ideas: How to be crisp, clear and articulate when speaking publicly.  How to make a point effectively especially to a resistant audience. How to use lively examples and images to convey important information. How to be a strong communicator on paper.  How to be a willing and patient listener and open to feedback.
Participative Management (Vision)	Influencing Others: How to use effective listening skills and communication to involve others, build consensus and influence others.

LEARNING TRACK 2:  LEADING THE ORGANIZATION

FWN Leadership Competencies for Now and the Future	Suggested Foundation Topics To Develop Skill Sets (you may combine suggested topics to create your own session topic titles)
Managing Change (Entrepreneuralism)	Leading Change: How to foster a climate of experimentation, adopting new initiatives, and supporting activities that position the organization for the future.
	Change Management: How to use effective strategies to facilitate organizational change initiatives.  How to overcome resistance to change, taking into account peoples’ concerns during change.  How to identify and involve key people in the design and implementation of change and being straightforward with stakeholders about consequences of actions or decisions.  How to adjust management styles to changing situations.
Solving Problems and Making Decisions (Feedback)	Problem Solving and Decision Making: How to gather information necessary to make decisions, creating order of large quantities of information, probing, digging beneath the surface, testing the validity of information to understand the issues quickly.  How to be a keen observer of people, events, and things.  How to spot problems, opportunities, threats, and trends early.  How to define a problem effectively to get to the heart of a problem.
	Decisiveness and Recognizing Trade-Offs: How to recognize that every decision has conflicting interests and constituencies.  How to balance short-term pay-offs with long-term improvement.  How to be aware of your own deeply held beliefs when dealing with others.  How to know when to hold fast to personal values and when to consider others’ values.
	Resourcefulness, Taking Action, Making Decisions and Following Through: How to both think strategically and carefully weighing consequences of contemplated action.  How to work effectively with higher management (presenting, persuading, and standing up to them if necessary), and still understanding higher management values.  How to present unpopular decisions professionally.  How to interact comfortably with executives in non-task contexts.  How to implement decisions, avoid procrastinating on decisions and following through.
Managing Politics and Influencing Others (Vision)	Influencing, Leadership, Power: How to inspire and promote a vision helping people see the importance of what they are doing.  How to effectively persuade and motivate others especially those whom you have no direct authority.  How to influence “upward” – your superiors.  How to delegate effectively.  How to build an extensive network of contact and spark others to take action.  How to be comfortable with your own power.
	Having the Courage to Take Risks, Innovation: How to take a stand when others disagree, go against the status quo, persevere in the face of opposition.  How to persevere in the face of obstacles or criticism when you believe that what you are doing is right. How to act when others hesitate or just talk.  How to go against the grain and take personal as well as business risks.
	Innovation: How to seize new opportunities to create significant organizational change.  How to introduce needed change even in the face of opposition.  How to take the lead on unpopular though necessary actions.  How to bring up ideas about potentials and possibilities for the future.
Setting Vision and Strategy (Vision)	Visioning, Planning and Goal Setting: How to translate the organization's vision into clear plans and clear actions.
	Strategic Planning: How to develop long-term objectives into realistic business strategies.  How to develop contingencies for future changes.  How to successfully integrate strategic and tactical planning.  How to develop plans that balance long-term goals with immediate needs.
Managing the Work (Management)	Being a Quick Study and Having a Business Perspective: How to develop a perspective of different functional areas in the organization.  How to develop a firm grasp of external conditions affecting the organization.  How to stay informed about the strategic moves of major competitors.
	Financial Management: How to develop the skills necessary to manage budgets and capital responsibilities – finding and raising capital resources, maintaining cash flow, controlling expenses, understanding operating budgets
	Customer/Vendor Relationships: How to build and maintain strong relationships with key contacts outside the organization – suppliers, customers.  How to create loyal customers, listening to customers’ needs and building strong relationships.
	Marketing: How to understand marketing strategy, conduct careful market research, creating effective marketing plans and changing marketing plans when needed to adapt.
	Human Resources: How to hire qualified people, track their progress, and give corrective action when necessary.
	Sales: How to differentiate marketing and sales.  How to be an effective sales representative of your organization.
Understanding and Navigating the Organization (Entrepreneuralism)	Acting Systematically: How to understand the political nature of the organization and to work appropriately within it.  How to effectively establish collaborative relationships and alliances throughout the organization.  How to manage the impact of one’s actions on the entire system.  How to deal effectively with the contradictory requirements or inconsistencies in the organization.

LEARNING TRACK 3:  LEADING YOURSELF

FWN Leadership Competencies for Now and the Future	Suggested Foundation Topics To Develop Skill Sets (you may combine suggested topics to create your own session topic titles)
Developing Adaptability (Personal Style)	Interpersonal Savvy: How to understand your own impact on situations and people.  How to influence others without using formal authority.  How to win concessions from others without harming relationships.  How to know when and with whom to build alliances.  How to adjust your leadership style according to the demands of the situation.  How to accurately sense when to give and take when negotiating.
	Openness to Influence, Embracing Flexibility: How to take ideas seriously when different from your own.  How to accept criticism well, being flexible and good at varying approaches with the situation.  How to think in terms of trade-offs and not assuming a single best way, not allowing power or status to go to your head. How to handle multiple priorities and tasks well.  How to think “out of the box” – forming novel associations and ideas that create new and different ways of solving problems.  How to depart from accepted group norms of thinking and behaving when necessary.
Increasing Self-Awareness (Personal Energy)	Self-Awareness; Seeks and Uses Feedback; Open to Criticism: How to do an honest self-assessment, taking an accurate picture of strengths and weaknesses and develop the willingness to improve – admitting personal mistakes, learning from them and moves on to correct the situation.  How to pursue feedback even when others are reluctant to give it.  How to not feel threatened or get overly defensive when others (especially superiors) are critical.
	Self-Management, Self-Insight, Self-Development: How to compensate for own weaknesses, capitalize on own strengths, learn from own experiences and make needed adjustments in own behavior, taking care of self and being aware of own feelings.
Managing Yourself (Personal Style)	Career Management: How to develop, maintain, and use professional relationships, including mentoring, coaching and feedback to manage own career. How to actively seek others to provide coaching, effectively build and maintain feedback channels, use networking to manage own career, actively seek opportunities to develop professional relationships with others, understand the value of a good mentoring relationship.
	Balance Between Personal Life and Work: How to balance work priorities with personal life so that neither is neglected – having activities and interests outside of career.
	Handling Disequilibirum: How to put stressful experiences into perspective and can handle mistakes, stress, and ambiguity with poise.  How to develop personal support necessary to cope with emotional overload.  How to tolerate ambiguity or uncertainty well.  How to manage upset and to be careful not to agitate others by spreading tension and anxiety.  How to handle mistakes or setbacks with poise and grace.
	Time Management: How to set priorities well – distinguishing clearly between important and unimportant tasks.  How to manage interruptions appropriately – when to admit interruptions and when to screen them out.  How to say “no” – avoiding spreading self too thin.
	Coping with Pressure and Adversity; Integrity; Straightforwardness and Composure: How to develop the capacity to manage high-pressure situations.  How to develop resilience – bouncing back from failure, defeat, troubling situations – willing to admit ignorance and not to hide mistakes. How to develop the capacity not to blame others or situation for mistakes.
Exhibiting Leadership Stature (Vision)	Executive Image: How to communicate confidence and steadiness during difficult times and to adapt readily to new situations.  How to command attention and respect and accept setbacks with grace.  How to set the pace for employees and others to follow.
Displaying Drive and Purpose (Entrepreneuralism)	Leading with Purpose: How to develop personal direction and not be sidetracked by details or workload, exuding a sense of passion or urgency about the work and sees her own leadership as that of an orchestrator of activities.  How to develop the ability to move back and forth from looking at the big picture to looking at finer details; striving for focus in the midst of organizational change and turbulence; dealing with a sense of work overload without becoming paralyzed.
	Doing Whatever it Takes: How to develop perseverance and focus in the face of obstacles, taking charge and having the capability of standing alone, yet open to learning from others when necessary.  How to take charge when trouble comes, to lead an operation effectively from its inception through to completion.  Developing the capacity to manage own career, and not sitting and waiting for the organization to plan a course of action for you to follow.

Summit Focus Areas For Learning Forum Programming (90-minute forums):

• Filipinas in Motion Peer Circles
  

• Kwentuhan with the PROs

Forum sessions are 90 minutes and are less structured with more emphasis on discussion and networking than a concurrent or general session. 

Forum Selection: specify one forum from the following list for which you want to offer a forum session or lead a speaker panel.  Select the above suggested foundation title topics representing the FWN Leadership Competencies.

Kwentuhan with the PROs (90-minute forums):

• Founders & Pioneers – Filipina women in their capacities as the chief executive, president, executive director or founder of a U.S. based company, community organization, non-profit, or business venture that they helped start, build or significantly grow.

• Innovators and Thought Leaders – Filipina women who have broken new ground in the U.S. through vibrant, energetic presentations of critical ideas, transforming the way people think, in the fields of arts and letters, performing arts or through pop culture, or have improved the lives of others by helping develop a product or service in the fields of science, technology, biotechnology or medicine.

• Policymakers & Visionaries – Filipina women leaders who have made or are making a difference in U.S. government policies or laws that impact business, industry, and society and who enrich the lives and careers of others by sharing the benefits of their wealth, experience, and knowledge.

• Behind the Scenes Leaders – Filipina women who, though they may not have the big title or corner office, are a driving force behind the success of their U.S. employer or organization and who have gone beyond the call to devote time, energy, and resources to support their community.

• Builders & Emerging Leaders – Filipina women who have made their mark in a large workplace environment, display high energy and skill in a leadership role at a U.S. nonprofit institution, government agency, or organization in any field.

• “Nicole” – Filipina women whose words, actions, and activism, inspire others to act and revolutionize our society's way of understanding traditional beliefs and customs. This category is inspired by "Nicole" who sparked an international dialogue about women's rights, national sovereignty, and international law as she steadfastly pursued justice against her rapists.

Filipinas in Motion Peer Circles (90-minute forums @ Breakfast):

These are small discussion peer circles of Filipina women in similar fields and professional areas of expertise. The circles are 90 minutes during breakfast.

Each group has a Discussion Leader (could be you) who will facilitate the flow of ideas and ensure participant sharing and empowerment, a Recorder who will take notes during the discussion, and a Reporter who will present the circle’s summary at the ReportBacks at the closing session of the summit.

Topics will cover the above suggested foundation title topics representing the FWN Leadership Competencies.  These small group discussions will provide an environment to restart thought processes and expand thinking. Participants will sign up for a group of their choice during summit registration.

• Filipinas in the Arts & Fashion

• Filipinas in Communications (Public Relations, Sales, Marketing & the Media)

• Filipinas in Education

• Filipina Entrepreneurs

• Filipinas in Finance

• Filipinas in Government

• Filipinas in Healthcare

• Filipinas in Human Resources (Career Coaching & Development, Organization Change & Training)

• Filipinas in Law

• Filipinas in Uniform & Law Enforcement

• Filipinas in Nonprofit, Faith & Community Organizations

• Filipinas in Non-traditional Careers

• Filipinas in Politics

• Filipinas in Science & Technology (including telecommunications)