Improving Skills for Women Leadership

WLead has been carried out with the aim of providing women over 30 who want to give a boost to their professional career with support, specifically adapted to their needs, to help them overcome th...

WLead has been carried out with the aim of providing women over 30 who want to give a boost to their professional career with support, specifically adapted to their needs, to help them overcome the barriers and obstacles they face and to give that step forward in their career. To this end, the project has focused on helping to develop competences and skills through the activities and tools that we have considered most appropriate for this purpose and target audience: mentoring, networking and training resources focused on specific skills.

The core of the WLead Project has consisted in developing the following activities: • Needs analysis carried out in Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg • Development of the WLead Platform and training materials • Selection of participants for seminars and mentoring meetings • Development of a Mentoring Programme, organizing bilateral meetings among the participants in the programme. These activities have been carried out in parallel with the transversal management and evaluation activities, consortium meetings and dissemination of the project, which the participating entities have implemented to ensure the achievement of the project objectives.

The results of the WLead project focus on the identification and development of a series of key competences and skills to boost women's professional careers. Specifically: • Report and conclusions of the Needs Analysis carried out through a documentary study in Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg and with the direct participation of 100 women in the survey phase and 10 in the focus groups organized in the 3 participating countries (5 in Spain and 5 in Belgium and Luxembourg). • Matrix of key competences to be developed to promote the professional careers of the participating women, having selected the following competences: - Communication - Building relationships - Self-confidence and personal brand - People and team management - Emotion management - Financial education • WLead Platform (accessible through the project website https://womenlead.eu) • WLead training materials, which include the 8 information pills published throughout the project and the 6 online training modules with free access upon registration. • Mentoring program implemented in Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg, in which 60 candidates have participated. • 40 bilateral mentoring meetings held between Mentors and Mentees in Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg