Enhance your effectiveness as a scientific leader in a complex and changing environment
Overview
- Hone your communication skills to strategically liaise with stakeholders
- Develop your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to better connect with your team
- Drive strategic change to improve processes and procedures
- Increase your leadership potential through feedback and self-awareness
Speakers
Dr Desley Lodwick
From coding in the 70s to becoming the Managing Director of a global IT company, Desley has had first-hand experience of the challenges faced in leadership roles; the barriers that hold people back and the conditions that create success.
Since 2004 Desley has completed a PhD in leadership development and has extensive experience in developing mindsets suitable for shifting workplaces to be productive, focused and creative communities.
Director
Accelerated Wisdom
Agenda
13 Apr - 14 Apr
Strengthen leadership skills for sustained operational success
- Understand the big picture in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world
- Understand the difference between technical and adaptive problems
- Adapt your communication skills for leading in a VUCA environment
- Develop the counterintuitive skills needed for dealing with complex challenges/wicked problems/dilemmas
Lead strategic change as a scientific leader
- Create a vision and learn to guide team culture
- Collaborate across teams to drive new initiatives and face complex challenges
- Develop your skills for strategy formation and implementation
- Improve the way critical information is delivered, presented and understood
Develop your communication skills to achieve influence
- Understand and adapt to the different ways individuals make sense of the world
- Develop your one-on-one communication skills to improve relationships
- Increase your EQ to better connect and communicate with diverse teams
Resolve conflict and tackle challenging situations
- Break down negative perceptions between scientists and technicians to increase workplace harmony
- Strategies to identify and tactically address toxic workplace behaviours
- Techniques for effective conflict resolution in difficult or complex scenarios
- Navigate challenging scenarios - difficult decision-making in a political environment
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Dr Desley Lodwick Director Accelerated Wisdom
Leadership in a STEM organisation
- Explore what is different in a STEM organisation and its implications for how to lead
- Explore the limitations of personal leadership mastery
- Learn how systems thinking can help with facing resistant and persistent problems
- Facilitate cross-functional communication to break down silos and broaden perspectives
Liaise with key stakeholders
- Communicate information effectively to different stakeholders
- Write scientific reports accommodating different stakeholders’ communication styles
- Collaborate with policy and other external teams to build beneficial partnerships
- Effectively communicate technical outcomes to key non-scientific stakeholders
Becoming deliberately developmental to realise organisational potential
- Understand different sense-making capabilities
- Gain insight into your immunity to change
- Learn to use errors and vulnerabilities to facilitate personal and organisational growth
- Build team culture and embed support structures into daily fabric of working life
Drive productivity through engagement and innovation
- Inspire creative thinking and produce new ideas
- Build an environment conducive to innovation and creativity in the workplace
- Identify team motivators to increase productivity and engagement in the laboratory or technical environment
- What is your leadership development action plan?
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Dr Desley Lodwick Director Accelerated Wisdom
Pricing
Prices start at
$2295*
More people? More savings!
Venue
Virtual / Streaming
