Public Sector Leadership Level 2: Critical Skills for Experienced Leaders

Deep dive into your personal leadership values 

- Understand your strengths and values leader

- Unpack common senior leadership challenges 

- Define your personal leadership brand

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in the workplace 

- Optimise personal strengths to enhance emotional competence 

- Utilise heightened EQ in leading high-performance teams

- Adapt your leadership style to effectively lead and manage different personalities

Leading a high-performance culture 

- Engage constructively with diverse perspectives and competing interests 

- Develop the strengths, capability and performance of your team

- Build your team’s resilience to stress and change 

Communicate with clarity - become an ambassador for leading change 

- Establish the importance of sharing your vision for future culture change 

- Set and lead strategic directions across your organisation

- Ambiguity tolerance and skills for managing uncertainty

Adaptive leadership approaches to strategic challenges 

- Understand the shift from micro to macro leadership

- How to find your blind spots as a leader 

- Develop personal strategies for breaking through current leadership challenges 

Complex stakeholder management and engagement strategies 

- Identify current stakeholder challenges

- Collaborate with peers to develop strategies for internal and external stakeholders

- Recognise links between interconnected issues, identify problems and work ways to resolve them

How to manage team dynamics in complex environments

- The role of conflict in achieving high performance 

- Engage and manage sensitive issues under pressure 

- Establish a culture of peak performance

Create a personal action plan for future success 

- Plan and commit to actions that will lead to success 

- Understand the leadership pipeline

- Manage transition and identify future leadership priorities

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