Public Sector Leadership Level 2: Critical Skills for Experienced Leaders

Personal leadership values 

- Understand your strengths and values

- Unpack common senior leadership challenges 

- Define your personal leadership brand

Emotional intelligence

- Optimise strengths to enhance emotional intelligence

- Utilise emotional intelligence to lead high-performance teams

- Effectively manage different personalities

Leading a high-performance culture 

- Make sense of complexity

- Understand drivers of team culture

- Shift your organisational culture

Communicate with clarity

- Explore leadership styles and their effects

- Understand your communication preferences

- Support team development and collaborative learning

Adaptive leadership for strategic challenges 

- Shift from micro to macro leadership

- Lead change amidst uncertainty

- Develop strategies for current challenges 

Stakeholder management and engagement

- Identify current challenges

- Collectively develop strategies for stakeholders

- Recognise links between problems

Team dynamics in complex environments

- Discover how conflict drives high performance

- Engage and manage sensitive issues

- Co-create high performance

Plan for future success

- Plan actions that will lead to success 

- Identify future leadership priorities

- Commit to personal accountability