Introduction:

The analysis of the promotion process of women to leadership positions is a complex one, which must include and comply with all its stages, with emphasis on the selection and approval. Only thus it can operate in a coherent manner and will be able to achieve the desired purposes.

Objective:

To develop a teaching resource for decision-making in the stages of selection and approval of women´s promotion process to leadership positions.

Methods:

It was applied a review of the literature and a content analysis of secondary sources from the Ministry of Public Health. It was used the Big6 model to trace the search strategy.

Results:

It was obtained a conceptual basis as a teaching tool to facilitate learning and decision-making, through the modelling of the concepts and relationships that characterize the object of study and that were obtained from the consultations of the documentary sources. The results were presented in a conceptual map that allowed organizing knowledge.

Conclusions:

Having an educational resource for learning the conceptual and hierarchical relations that are set forth in the selection and approval stages of the process of women´s promotion to leadership positions prevents the establishment of wrong cognitive structures in those involved in the process, being the conceptual maps a graphical tool that facilitates the management of knowledge in managerial processes and in the selection of alternatives as part of the decision-making process.

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