EL2–SES Women in Leadership
A compelling and comprehensive program to consolidate your strengths and grow as a Leader
Specifically designed for women in EL2 – SES level roles, this highly engaging Masterclass will develop strategic capabilities that senior leaders must demonstrate to be effective. You will fine tune your values and align them to your organisation’s, strengthen your emotional intelligence, communicate with greater influence and develop the key skills for leaders in the upper ranks of the APS.
Key benefits
Learn and fine-tune the core skills of an SES leader and exceed your work level standards expectations
Reinforce your emotional intelligence and use it to build meaningful assertiveness and engagement
Build executive presence and communicate with influence
Why attend
- Deepen your authentic leadership style to lead with greater impact
- Confidently lead through uncertainty and change
- Leverage your networks to influence outside of your authority
- Provide leadership in implementing and promoting change and continuous improvement
- Communicate the implications of decisions and actions effectively
Audience
Women in leadership from across the Australian Public Sector in EL2 – SES roles
Agenda
Fine-tune your values and align them to your organisation’s, strengthen your emotional intelligence, communicate with greater influence and develop the key skills for leaders in the upper ranks of the APS
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MODULE 1 – TRANSFORMING YOURSELF
Self-leadership: Highly self-aware leaders see themselves from the inside out and deeply know the impact that they have on others
Masterclass overview, set the context, build relationships and trust
- Who’s in the ‘virtual’ room?
- Sharing leadership challenges
- Why do you lead, and how do you lead?
- How to cultivate the art of followership
- Defining your leadership identity
Unpacking the qualities of self-leadership
- How to develop deeper emotional intelligence
- How do you intentionally develop your leadership competence?
- What impact do you have on others as a leader, and how do you know?
- Are you playing to your strengths?
Learning reflection and preparing for the next module
Close of Module One
MODULE 2 – TRANSFORMING TEAMS
Leading others: Creating trusting teams
Masterclass overview, set the context, build relationships and trust
- Setting your team up for high performance
- Exploring the behaviours of high performing teams
- How do you intentionally create a culture that will inspire excellence?
Creating inclusive, diverse and psychological safe workplaces
- Understanding the human element – how do you deliberately build psychological safety on your team and why does it matter?
- Collaborative teams solve complex issues – how can you create one?
Build your executive presence: How to step up, step in and have the impact you are seeking
- Moving from performance management to performance development
- Are you a strength-based leader?
- How do you create a learning culture and growth mindsets?
- Are you leading with a learning orientation?
Learning reflection and preparing for the next module
Module Two Closes
MODULE 3 – LEADING FOR THE FUTURE
Leading and transforming: Managing ambiguity and complexity as you influence across your agency
Masterclass overview, set the context, build relationships and trust
Making the transition from managing to leading across your agency
- When do you manage and when do you lead?
- How can you build your Influence to be persuasive across your agency with your peers and levels above? How do you see the whole system and foster
- Collective leadership across your agency?
- It’s time to have a point of view and share it with conviction and confidence
Leading through ambiguity and uncertainty
- How do you lead in a dynamic environment?
- What are the critical factors that will drive change and transformation?
- Knowing yourself as an influencer – how to be an astute leader who focuses on what matters most
- How to be your most productive self – ensuring you apply your energy and focus on what matters most every day
Influencing through creating relationships that matter
- Assess the quality of the relationships that matter most and impact your ability to influence across your agency
- How will you deliberately and intentionally build relationships?
Learning reflection and preparing for the next module
Module Three Closes
MODULE 4 – DESIGNING YOUR LEADERSHIP FUTURE
Own and reach your leadership potential
Leading into the future
- How is the world of work shifting and how will that impact you as a leader of the future?
- How to be a visionary leader, crafting a compelling picture of the future.
- How do you lead a future-focused workforce?
- How do you build a strategic mindset that allows you to anticipate the future?
- Stepping up to SES – building capability and confidence
Know your career aspirations and strategically plan to achieve them
- How to overcome habits and limiting beliefs as you progress your career
- What do you need to have, to know, to be, to do, and to stop doing to progress your career?
- What are the barriers and enablers you need to manage to progress your career?
Create robust habits to build personal resilience
- Why you need routines that support your self-care so you are at your best
- How can you build and maintain resilience?
Review, reflect and plan
Join Kathryn for an extended interactive session where you will have the opportunity to reflect on your key takeaways from the masterclass, ask any final questions and discuss how you will implement your learnings.
Close of Masterclass
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