Leadership Dimensions - Management Conversations
The
Leadership Dimensions forums and workshops provide opportunity for
development and networking for senior professional staff at UniSA. These
forums combine presentations by experts with facilitated discussion,
designed to explore a range of contemporary leadership and management
issues. The activities are open to senior professional staff (typically
staff at level 7/8 and above) with responsibility for leading and
managing a team or whose role involves influencing the work of other
staff or teams.
The Leadership Dimensions forums and workshops support the development of the leadership and management capabilities for professional staff.
Please keep in mind there will be other activities added to this program as the year progresses. Please contact Kate Ryan or Greg Giles for further details.MONTHLY CALENDAR
SEPTEMBER
Having Difficult Conversations
The RENEW Series - When Good People Go Off the Boil
OCTOBER
Political Nous – Power and Politics in the Workplace
The RENEW Series - When Teams Need a Recharge
NOVEMBER
Developing the Careers of Your Staff
The RENEW Series - Individual Resilience
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Having Difficult Conversations
Overview
The workplace is full of difficult situations – we all face conversations that we dread having or where find ourselves thinking “How did I get into this? And how can I get out of it?” Whether it’s conversations about workplace changes, conflicting job roles, personality differences or workload demands – we all need to be able to find a way to work through the issues without ruining working relationships.
| Audience: | Managers of professional staff who want to develop their capabilities around motivation and effective engagement of staff. |
| Duration: | 4 hours (9am to 1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Wednesday 2
September AU3-03, level 3 101 Currie St |
| Registration closes: | Wednesday 26 August |
| Cost: | Nil |
Political Nous – Power and Politics in the Workplace
Overview:
This session will provide insights to organisational politics and, through a rolling case study approach, will offer strategies for working effectively with politics and power in the organisation. It will be a useful forum for discussing how, when and why to influence organisational politics and will touch on political and personal power, impression management, values clarification, decision making approaches, and networking.
Issues that will be covered during the session include:
- Organisational politics – what is it? How does it manifest itself?
- Legitimate versus illegitimate power playing
- Impression management
- Networking and influencing
| Duration: | 7.5 hours (9am to 4.30pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Thursday 22
October AU3-03, level 3 101 Currie St |
| Registration closes: | Thursday 15 October |
| Cost: | Nil |
Developing the Careers of Your Staff
Overview
The session builds on New Horizon’s focus on people and their performance, recognising that effective performance development and management is a strategic imperative, building an organisational culture that recognises and values high performance.
The session builds on the Performance Development and Management approach in the University, highlighting the importance of regular performance conversations to assist in identifying talent and building key strengths.
It focuses on honing your coaching capability use of skillful questioning to effectively conduct development and career conversations. The manager’s goal is to assist each member of the team in finding the right role to take advantage of their unique strengths. It will also help you work with your staff to identify development areas which may be limiting or hindering their effectiveness on the job.
| Audience: | Managers of professional staff who have performance management responsibilities and want to develop their capabilities around developing staff. |
| Duration: | 4 hours (9am to 1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Wednesday 4
November AU3-03, level 3 101 Currie St |
| Registration closes: | Wednesday 28 October |
| Cost: | Nil |
The RENEW Series
Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you, your teams and the culture of your department continued to grow in the following areas:
- Increased Resilience in responding to change, pressure and less than ideal circumstances
- Understand Energy as currency- and spend it on productive and constructive pursuits
- Form and maintain healthy Networks at work: boundaries, politics and trust.
- Get Engaged in work-even in less than ideal circumstances.
- Took initiatives to improve and increase individual and group Wellbeing.
Backed by extensive research and over 20 years experience in organisational development, the RENEW series has been developed to help managers, teams and individuals increase their productivity, engagement and energy at work. Interactive workshops based on research and real life examples provide tools and case studies to help you and your team build individual and group capacity to achieve productivity goals in the midst of change, ambiguity and increasing workload pressure.
Using the RENEW framework, the following workshops have been developed to offer an integrated approach to all levels of the organisation.
When Good People Go Off the Boil
For leaders and managers responsible for developing the culture of their team this workshop will discuss the research, strategies and communication that contribute to a culture of optimum performance and motivating staff who seem to have ‘gone off the boil’.
Overview
We’ve all seen it. Sometimes we’ve done it. Good, motivated workers seem
to lose their edge. Some retire on the job. Others just seem to be going
through the motions. Sometimes you can’t put your finger on it. It is not
really ‘unsatisfactory’ performance-just less than their best effort. Are
they distracted? Is it my leadership? Are they not challenged enough? How do
I approach them without undermining the motivation they do have?
This workshop will be an interactive ‘Leadership Community of Practice’ that
will provide participants with the opportunity to exchange ideas, solutions
and common problems about the ‘real life’ challenges this situation
presents. Linda Chaousis will offer some approaches and tools for
consideration and discussion by the group. She will also share (for debate
and discussion) the surprising four letter word that some researchers are
linking to high performing staff.
| Audience: | Managers of professional staff who want to develop their capabilities around motivation and effective engagement of staff. |
| Duration: | 4 hours (9am to 1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Wednesday 23 September |
| Registration closes: | Wednesday 16 September |
| Cost: | Nil |
When Teams Need a Recharge
For people responsible for the leadership of a work team, project team or a group in a matrix structure, this workshop identifies the key factors of ‘team fatigue’ which causes teams to lose some of their energy and initiative. Coaching, team management and tools for motivating people will be introduced and discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss real life Case Studies.
| Audience: | Managers of professional staff who want to develop their capabilities around motivation and effective engagement of staff. |
| Duration: | 4 hours (9am to 1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Monday 19 October |
| Registration closes: | MNilonday 12 October |
| Cost: |
Individual Resilience
Most organisations are undergoing constant change which means staff can feel like they are working in ‘permanent whitewater’. While many decisions and requests are beyond their control, the responses to these factors can influence a person’s wellbeing, productivity and at times their future opportunities in the organisation. Based on emerging research, this workshop will help staff at all levels of an organisation audit their resilience factors and identify strategies to increase their resilience and ability to manage the stress factors at work and increase their motivation and engagement at work.
| Audience: | Individuals who want to develop increase their resilience and ability to manage the stress factors at work and increase their motivation and engagement at work. |
| Duration: | 4 hours (9am to 1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Monday 16 November |
| Registration closes: | Tuesday 10 November |
| Cost: | Nil |
CONTACTS
Kate Ryan
Consultant: Organisational Learning and Development
Phone: 8302 2202
Email: kate.ryan@unisa.edu.au