Leadership Skills for Scientists Workshop
17th - 18th, January 2024 / Brisbane, AU
Overview
• Develop and refine essential leadership skills
• Learn to communicate with clarity and impact
• Strategies to work effectively with different personality types
• Build process improvement & change management capability
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. With a PhD in Leadership Development, Coaching and Cultural Change, Desley masterfully connects research and ideas to ease the challenges of work in ways that make a difference.
Executive Director
Aberrant Learning
Agenda
Workshop
Strengthen your 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 and 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 Executive Director Aberrant Learning
Workshop
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
Effective communication skills to liaise with key 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
Tools to become 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
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Dr Desley Lodwick Executive Director Aberrant Learning
Group Discounts
Pricing
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Venue
Cliftons Brisbane
Level 24, 288 Edward Street, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
07 3231 0999
