Higher Education Women in Leadership Workshop

Leadership foundations for women in Higher Education

- Defining your strengths and key development areas

- Understand where you are in your career journey

- Establish your goals for leadership progression

Change management in a hybrid environment

- The VUCA environment (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)

- Tertiary Education challenges in a VUCA world

- Responding to pressure in positions of management

Managing people's performance

- Performance conversations in an academic context

- Explore four primary principles for managing performance 

- Provide feedback that drives engagement and collaboration

- Utilise coaching models for goal setting and performance management

High level communication, influence and negotiation

- Develop your communication strategy - style, structure and substance

- Stakeholder engagement 

- Know your audience’s expectations 

- Effectively managing up and how important it is to do it differently in academia

Conversations that build trust to communicate your vision 

- Communication skills to maximise influence

- Understand other people's motivations and emotions

- Manage emotions for positive and assertive communication and relationships

- Trusting yourself and your decisions as a professional 

Strategic thinking and career progression

- Unpack practical takeaways and build a personalised action plan 

- Workshop key skills and strategies to implement back in the office

- Share approaches to move your career forward