Establishing your Leadership

Pre-work for Programme and Module 1

• Welcome video (short introduction to the programme – the key themes)
• Leadership article/s Purposeful/Authentic Leadership
• Understanding self
• Drivers Questionnaire self-assessment
• Self-reflection – what do the results say about you – strengths and performance risks

Module 1: Leading Yourself

• Purpose values and strengths
• Authentic leadership – your leadership narrative
• Emotional Intelligence: understanding self and others and the importance of pausing to think about the impact of impulse control, reality testing, problem-solving
• What do I start, stop continue doing?

Pre-work for Module 2

• What I have learned from Module 1 and what will I continue to do, stop doing and
• start doing?
• Leadership styles questionnaire
• Exploring trust
• TED Talk / Article review – relevant topic e.g., Motivation in the 21st Century.
• Introduction to inclusive and transformational leadership.
• The traits of inclusive leadership – how do you measure up?

Module 2: Building Team Effectiveness

• Creating high performing teams
• Exploring the behaviours and ways of working for and in the team to
• ensure the team is effective and supportive.
• Developing a feedback culture
• How to build your team in times of transformational change
• Reflection – Reviewing – Reconnecting – Rebooting

Pre-work

• Personal reflections questionnaire
• What I have learned from Workshop 2 and what will I continue to do, stop doing and start doing?
• Coaching for Development – Managers Guide
• TED Talk / Article review – relevant topic – e.g., Lencioni
• 5 dysfunctions of a team – what to notice
• Team climate check – assessment

Module 3: Leading Across the University

• Setting direction and vision
• Manage competing priorities – variable resources and workloads –setting shared goals
• Collaborating across boundaries
• Managing and leading multi-functional teams
• Managing in a hybrid environment

Pre-work for embedding learning from Module 3 and programme as a whole

• Watch stimulus on psychological safety
• TED Talk / Article review – relevant topic – eg Amy Edmonson – Fearless Organisation
• Bringing the themes together – self, others, the organisation
• Prepare an outline of a time when you have faced a significant challenge at work

Module 4:  Leading Through Uncertainty and Challenging Times

• Managing through VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times)
• Choose effective mindsets in fast moving change – becoming comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity and seeing the benefits
• Building psychological safety for teams
• Developing resilience in self and others
• Problem-solving, innovation and making decisions

Post Programme work:

Embedding learning from Module 4 and programme as a whole:

• Re-visit the work you prepared around a challenging time at work. What would you
• do differently as a result of the work you have undertaken?
• Spotting and capitalising on development opportunities moving forward
• What is next for me….future development planning