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Know Your Strengths
Use the VIA Character Strengths as a tool for individual and collective learning. Leaders will understand their own strengths, those of others and build a team strengths profile.
Leaders learn to apply signature strengths to find solutions to common leadership dilemmas.
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Connected Colleagues
Don't leave workplace relationships to chance!
Prof Jane Dutton has identified four pathways for building connection: respectful engagement, task-enabling, trusting and playing. Leaders will build the skills and confidence to turn around stressful events by activating pathways for connection.
Building Trust
Trust is an essential ingredient of leadership.
Drawing of the work of principal and researcher,
Dr Paul Browning, leaders will explore actions that develop and enrich a culture of trust in their workplace. Trust-building practices will be applied to common scenarios arising when working to build teams and community.
Leadership EI
Emotionally intelligent (EI) leaders activate a set of skills to work with emotion - in both themselves and others. Researchers, Goleman and Boyatzis, have identified 12 leadership competencies aligned with emotional intelligence. Leaders will build knowledge; reflect on successes; and apply the competencies to their own professional challenges.
Coaching as a Leadership Practice
Coaching is synonymous with lifelong learning and growth. Leaders can choose to coach others - a way of leading that improves relationships and supports change. When leaders build their own coaching capability, they will see improvement in colleague-to-colleague interactions. This encourages engagement and builds supportive accountability with and for each other, and for the communities they serve.
A Change for the Better
Appreciative inquiry is a strengths-based approach to create lasting organisational change. Based on the research of Prof David Cooperrider, an appreciative inquiry poses questions that move though the stages of discover, dream, design and deliver. Taking an appreciative approach makes it more likely that change will be successful, also improving individual and collective wellbeing.
An appreciative inquiry can be facilitated as a large-scale summit with all stakeholders or as a small-scale review of best practice in your organisation.