Julia Mphafudi - The Programmes Provides Specific Skills Development to Women Professionals

ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES A KEY TO SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP Julia Mphafudi - Our Country has a history of women been previously marginalized in the workplace. The recently published Employment Equity report show lack of equity in the top echelon across economic sectors. Our fundamental concern is continued skills shortage for black women in the Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) professions. Women in leadership positions are faced with numerous challenges including hostile corporate culture. Being in a leadership position requires the capacity to manage complexity that comes with multiple roles and responsible within financial, social and economic and sometimes political spheres. I have in my previous roles as HR Executive put in place a number of women accelerated development programmers to accelerate women from technical expertise to senior management roles. The aim of Women’s Accelerated Leadership programmes is to assist women to accelerate their ...