Women with Power
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Acting with Power inspired workshop for Stanford Law School’s Women in Politics
Women with Power
The relationship between gender and power, as well as cultural identity in the workplace, (or school, or home,) is complex and dynamic, with men and women getting different results from the same behavior. Women & men, especially those in leadership, can benefit by learning the ways behavior and role affect the ability to influence, persuade, and lead in male-dominated fields. Navigating hierarchies and relationships with success requires access to a broad authentic range of expression. Participants will explore their personal relationship to power, authority and status, and leave with a framework to interpret and express the social signals for both authority and approachability and other ready-to-implement leadership tools. Combining performance techniques and emerging data from the fields of social psychology and gender research, this highly interactive session provides insight into how personal behavioral range – physical, vocal, intellectual, mindset, strategic – affect the ability to create impact.
Acting with Power
GSB’s Acting with Power language:
“The ability to function effectively within a hierarchy is critical to personal and professional success, yet many people struggle with ‘authority issues’ that make certain hierarchical roles and positions difficult for them. This course draws on the craft of acting and the science of psychology broaden participants’ authentic range and to help them play these roles effectively.”
This abridged workshop includes a deep-dive into power dynamics and non-verbal fluency. It also includes coaching opportunities to fine-tune specific areas of opportunity for personal growth. The experience centers on providing capability-building, expert & peer coaching around influence and presence in high stakes and everyday situations.
We will explore participants’ ability to be agile and powerful, connecting with their audience, and creating a clear message that works. Participants will develop real-world material in the workshop and receive coaching and feedback on their work, content, and ability to deliver content across a wide range of topics. They will explore the relationship of Power, Authority, and Status and how their nonverbal communication can help achieve communication and leadership goals.
[Narrative & Powerful Presence / COMMUNICATION SPECIFIC lang:
Your ideas and strategy are only effective when you can enroll others and get them to implement them. This is especially true as you build capabilities in the organization, develop & integrate new technology, help others to thrive in changing roles, environments, policies and regulations, all while introducing new and innovative ideas that can disrupt business as usual. Your ideas only create impact if you can communicate them in a way that lives on in others and inspires them to take action. To influence others – you need to have clarity of message and deliver it with confidence.]
BIO
Melissa Jones Briggs
Lecturer in Organizational Behavior
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Melissa Jones Briggs works as a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior on Faculty at Stanford’s GSB teaching Acting with Power with Dr. Deborah Gruenfeld and Dr. Benoît Monin. She has taught at London Business School in the UK, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland and the United States Naval Academy. Jones Briggs also designs, directs & deploys global leadership, coaching and inclusion programs for organizations as an independent consultant and executive coach. Client sectors range from the corporate (Intel, Twitter, Cisco, eBay, Ubisoft, Lyft, Mozilla, Dechert LLP) and academic (Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford Executive Program for Women Leaders, Singularity University, Stanford’s School of Medicine), to healthcare (Lorraine Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford Hospitals & Clinics, The Public Health Institute), and nonprofit (Clinton Global Initiative, Watermark, Invoking the Pause Foundation, 52nd Street Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival) among others. She serves on the Board of Directors at Youth in Arts, an arts education nonprofit with a focus on social justice. Melissa is especially passionate about supporting women as they break down barriers to advancement in the workplace and beyond. An honors graduate of Wake Forest University, she also studied at the Coaches Training Institute, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and the Actors Center Conservatory in New York.