Develop & refine core skills & key leadership capability to achieve success & excel in AO 7-8 level roles & beyond
Overview
- Enhance your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to advance as an AO 7-8 leader
- Influentially engage stakeholders on complex & sensitive issues
- Leverage adaptable leadership to prosper in times of change
- Career planning & pathways in QLD Public Sector roles
Speakers
Dr Karen Whittingham
Karen is one of Australia’s leading executive management development specialists who has worked with thousands of executives to transition them into senior leadership roles quickly and effectively. She is an Organisational Psychologist passionate about people’s success and facilitating their careers to rise. She teaches Organisational psychology at UNSW and works with ASX listed companies and large public sector organisations to drive engagement, inclusion and performance.
Director
Impact Psychology Pty Ltd
Agenda
18 Mar - 19 Mar
Self-awareness and authentic leadership
- Understand your strengths and values as an AO 7-8 leader
- Key tasks of adaptive leadership
- Define your personal leadership brand
- Align your leadership strengths with the expectations of your organisation
Advanced Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Utilise EQ to motivate and influence your team and stakeholders
- Harness EQ to focus attention
- Utilise heightened EQ to make effective strategic decisions
- Adapt your leadership style to effectively manage different personalities
Build resilience under pressure
- Acting vs reacting upon unexpected developments
- Anticipate and manage risk effectively
- Make crucial judgements under pressure
- Utilise feedback to improve service delivery and organisational capability
Successful change and strategic direction
- The shift from micro to macro leadership
- Adopt a planned and comprehensive approach to implement organisational change
- Develop and influence key strategic directions
- Collaborate and develop joint solutions with external stakeholders
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Dr Karen Whittingham Director Impact Psychology Pty Ltd
Key stakeholder relationship management and communication
- Engage and manage stakeholder expectations during change
- Authoritatively represent and influence on behalf of your agency
- Collaborate and develop joint solutions with external stakeholders
- Recognise links between interconnected issues, identify problems and work ways to resolve them
Build team capability and accountability
- Cultivate your team to take ownership of their success
- Build reliability and accountability in your team
- Successfully align your teams with broader agency strategy and goals
- Develop your team’s resilience to stress and change
Manage team dynamics in complex environments
- Co-create high performance - Establish a culture of peak performance
- Override emotional responses to stressful situations
- Authoritatively represent and influence on behalf of your agency
- Ambiguity tolerance and skills for managing uncertainty
Core approaches for AO 7-8 leaders to advance as an executive leader
- Create an action plan for your career
- Understand the leadership pipeline
- Prepare yourself for executive responsibilities
- Manage transition and identify future leadership priorities
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Dr Karen Whittingham Director Impact Psychology Pty Ltd
Pricing
Prices start at
$1895*
More people? More savings!
Venue
Virtual / Streaming
