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 Megan de Lacy or Greg Giles for further details.MONTHLY CALENDAR
AUGUST
Persuasive Presentations - Stand out when you stand up
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
Political nous - Power and Politics in the Workplace
November
When Good People Go Off the Boil: Keeping Staff Engaged
WORKSHOP DETAILS
Persuasive Presentations – Stand Out When You Stand Up
Overview
Knowing how to communicate and present effectively is an essential for today’s professionals. Those who present well get noticed and the organisations they represent get results.
This workshop will provide participants with tools, competence and confidence to prepare, structure and deliver effective presentations. Participants will receive:
- An understanding of the key issues in communicating with an audience
- Keys to preparing, structuring and delivering a presentation
- A template for delivering future presentations
- Advice on how to shape an argument and talk to key values
- A working knowledge of the essentials for effective and confident presentations
| Duration: | 4 hours (9am-1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Friday 22nd
August AU3-03, Level 3 101 Currie St |
| Registration closes: | Tuesday 5th August |
| Cost: | Nil |
Toxic Behaviour
Overview:
This half-day workshop is designed to help managers identify the key issues to be addressed in dealing with inappropriate workplace behaviour. It will provide a clear outline of how to acknowledge and respond to both allegations of improper conduct and observed breaches of acceptable behaviour.
It will further assist you in recognising early signs of problems in the workplace and provide you with strategies for intervening before issues escalate. A case study exercise will further provide you with an opportunity to translate theory into practice.
Maximum attendance 25 people.
| Duration: | 3 hours (9am -12.30pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Tuesday 2nd
September AU3-03, Level 3 101 Currie St |
| Registration closes: | Tuesday 26th August |
| Cost: | Nil |
Political Nous – Power and Politics in the Workplace
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: | 4 hours (9am to 1pm) |
| Date, time and location: | Tuesday 21st
October H5-26, Council Room Hawke Building, City West Campus |
| Registration closes: | Tuesday 14th October |
| Cost: | Nil |
When Good People Go Off the Boil: Keeping Staff Engaged
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: | Friday 7 November
2008, AU3-03, Level 3 - 101 Currie Street |
| Registration closes: | Friday, 31 October 2008 |
| Cost: | Nil |
CONTACTS
Megan de Lacy
Program Officer: Organisational Learning and Development
Phone: 8302 1636
Email: megan.delacy@unisa.edu.au
Kerry McLaren
Human Resources Administrative Officer
Phone: 8302 1835
Email: Kerry.Mclaren@unisa.edu.au