EL1 & EL2 HIGH PERFORMANCE & LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP

Foundations of authentic leadership

- Expectations and values of an EL leader

- Leadership in the time of a VUCA world

- Understand the shift in focus from technical management to authentic leadership 

- Understand your strengths and value as a leader

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

- Utilise EI to motivate and influence your team

- Harness EI to focus attention

- Utilise heightened EI to make effective strategic decisions

- Override emotional responses to stressful situations

Evolve into the strategic decision-maker

- The shift from micro to macro leadership

- Tools to sharpen your political nous in a changing environment 

- Manage conflicting priorities and competing demands 

- Develop your strategy execution toolkit

Build high performance teams 

- Cultivate your team to take ownership of their success

- Build reliability and accountability in your team

- Adaptable leadership strategies for managing different people

- Providing and receiving feedback - the good, the bad and the ugly

Stakeholder management and engagement

- Engage and manage stakeholder expectations during change

- Represent and influence on behalf of your agency with authority

- Engage and manage sensitive issues under pressure

- Harness and resolve conflict to create choices and resolution 

Build resilience and a positive risk culture 

- Acting vs reacting to unexpected developments

- Harness opportunities and respond to identified and emerging risks

- Make crucial judgements under pressure

- Communicate risk management plans with your teams and senior executives

Align your team with organisational expectations

- Strategies to apply best practice approaches to implementation planning

- Implement strategic initiatives throughout the branch

- Communicating ‘proper use’ to your team and others

- Apply accountable authority instructions and delegations

Apply your learning in the workplace

- On-the-Job Guide

- Your career action plan

- Prepare yourself to take the next steps

- Identifying your future leadership opportunities