SWE LCC Module Descriptions
#1 Knowledge of SWE
This module is designed to provide an overview of
the Society of Women Engineers. It shows SWE’s
mission and goals, history, organizational structure,
and governance.
#2 Membership
The membership module provides your section
leadership with a firm understanding of SWE
membership recruitment and retention: Why SWE?,
finding the engineers in your area, recruiting and
involving members, providing value for
membership, understanding needs and wants of
members.
#3 Finances
This module is designed to provide a guide for the
financial management of a small to medium sized
section. Basic financial processes are discussed and
examples of formats are discussed. Where to go for
additional information and assistance is provided.
#4 Fund Development
A great deal of planning and thought goes into
successful fundraising. This module is designed to
take section leadership through the fundraising
cycle and put a plan in place to begin or improve
their own program. This module contains many
activities, self assessments, and a chance to practice
what you learn.
#5 Strategic Planning
This module is designed to provide instruction for
sections on how to create a strategic plan. SWE as a
society uses the knowledge based governance
model for their strategic plan and your section will
learn to use the four planning horizons. A
workbook is available for sections to create their
own plan.
#6 Administration and Operations
Essential for new section leadership, this module
covers section requirements, what to expect from
HQ and the Society, and how to run a SWE section.
It is extremely useful for newer sections. This
module comes with a mini operations manual.
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#7 Publicity Communications
This module is designed to provide an overview of
the section communications, including both internal
and external publicity, newsletters, web pages, etc.
Exercises will lead participants through developing
an audience message matrix, publicity plan, a
sample press release, layout of a newsletter and the
section web page.
#8 Effective Meetings
Whether it is at work or in your volunteer
organization, we've all experienced bad meetings
and often dread attending them. Find out what it
takes to hold a useful and efficient meeting. We
discuss the attributes of a good meeting and what
leaders and managers need to make their meetings
effective.
#9 Leadership
It takes a variety of different leadership styles for
your organization to be successful. Learning about
your style and that of others you work with helps
you handle different situations. We will discuss
what is means to be a leader and when you need to
adapt your leadership style. Practicing leadership in
SWE might be one of the most important
transferable skills you can bring back to the
workplace.
#10 Team Building
Learn about you group’s team dynamics and gain
insight into the stages of team development.
Effective team strategies and behaviors that prevent
successful teaming are also discussed.
#11 Tactical Planning
Create or review your 1-2 year SWE section
planning horizon. The presentation includes a SWE
schedule for the year, how to establish goals for the
year, activities to help forward those goals, and how
to maintain a section calendar.
#12 Conflict Resolution
Don’t let conflict drag your section down by going
unresolved. We will define conflict, learn to
distinguish disputes versus conflict, understand
what contributes to conflict, and learn the basics of
resolution. Addressing conflict will lead to
improvements in your group.
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#13 Succession Planning
Do you know who your leaders will be next year?
What about 5 years from now? We will walk your
section leadership through the 8 step approach to
succession planning. Create your section succession
plan and put it into action.
#14 Professionalism in Your SWE Section
What image does your section portray? A section
with a professional image will certainly attract new
members, corporate support, and successful
outreach activities! Learn some tips and tricks to
ensure that your section reflects a professional SWE
image.
# 15 First Aid for Leadership Burnout
SWE leaders are often so passionate about
furthering SWE's mission that we wind up
stretching ourselves too thin. We can't help it, we're
"do-ers." Or can we? SWE Leadership Coaches
will lead the discussion to help you understand,
treat, and prevent leadership burnout in your SWE
Section.
#16 Challenges of Geographically Large Sections
If your section physically covers a large area, you
already know that this creates extra challenges for
your leadership team. This module will lead the
discussion on the how to meet those challenges and
shares several best practices.
#17 Being an Inclusive Organization
SWE is committed to being an inclusive
organization. We can better meet our goals and
objectives if we are open to the perspectives and
strengths of all of our members and prospective
members. Attendees of this presentation explore
issues around inclusion and will develop strategies
moving forward.
#18 Creative Problem Solving
As engineers, every day we are faced with problems
in our SWE activities, careers, and home
lives. Solving problems defines us. But through the
years we lose our childlike abilities to think outside
the box as we are educated in the system. So
coming up with new and better ideas that can be
more effective and meet the ever-increasing
demands of our organization is the real challenge.
This session teaches 4 different creative problem
solving techniques which will be applied and
practiced to address some of the challenges we face
in our SWE sections. Attendees will gain the ability
to generate ideas for solutions that provide value or
improves a situation.
#19 Effective Communications
Since 93% of communication is non verbal and
people usually only recall 50% of what they just
heard, we all need to be the best communicators we
can be. This module discusses and practices the
difference between ineffective and effective
communication skills. It provides resources on all
aspects of communication from interpersonal, to
body language, to electronic messaging.
#20 Managing Different Generations
In today’s organizations we encounter four
generations of workers: Gen X, Gen Y, Baby
Boomer, and Traditional. The diversity of
characteristics and values represented by each
group can make an issue of communication,
collaboration, and motivation. As the generations
continue to shift it will be essential for successful
organizations to share and transfer knowledge
between generations. We must first recognize the
characteristics and values that are representative of
each group. This module discusses differences in
work ethics, leadership styles, work-life balance,
and views on education, money, and much more.
Participants will also assess which generation they
fit into, and discover it might not even be the
generation they were born into.
ALSO AVAILABLE FROM LCC (webinar replay’s for FY11 now available):
National Committee Chair Training;
New Section Officer Training;
Returning Section Officer Training;
MAL Leadership Training;
Region Officer Training (all region leaders)
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Modules can be tailored to fit your section. Many can be delivered as a half-day workshop or as a one hour
presentation, or anything in between. Coaches generally present live at sections, but also may utilize conference
calls as needed. Don’t forget coaches are also available for one-on-one coaching or even as a sounding board.
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