Training Workshops

Target Audience

Aimed at those who are either new to middle-management, or moving into  middle-management role with a wider scope of duties. 

Curriculum and Delivery

Across a 2.5-hour workshop, we will navigate themes including: 

• Discerning when to use management or leadership skillsets
• Strategic communication and psychological safety for teams
• Influencing senior leaders and managing up
• Team planning, role clarity, and leading with vision
• Understanding and navigating your organisational culture.

Why it Will Help

One of the most common friction-points in organisational culture surrounds transitioning promising professionals into skilled leaders. Many who are new to leadership progressed into their role after demonstrating high performance across more junior duties: project management, maintaining good peer relationships at work, and delivering in their specialised area. For many, this can lead to difficulty letting go: in an area where you're used to overseeing everything from planning through to delivery, only offering broad guidance and oversight can feel like losing control. Often, this leads to micromanagement, a decline in role clarity, morale, and productivity across the team, and delays in delivering on the broader organisational priorities associated with middle-management duties. This coaching curriculum supports new and emerging leaders to avoid the pitfalls common in the early stages of the leadership journey, and brings the skills and knowledge necessary to lead a thriving team. 

Target Audience

Established and emerging leaders in diverse organisations, with responsibility for delivering and/or strategising organisational culture initiatives related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Curriculum and Delivery

A 2.5-hour workshop, where we will navigate themes including:

• Understanding systemic barriers to equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Psychological safety for inclusion, wellbeing, and belonging
• Applying an intersectional lens to leadership and decision-making
• Effectively addressing complex inequities within your team, including those relating to caring responsibilities, cultural and linguistic diversity, gender diversity, neurodiversity, and disability
• Integrating your organisation's approach to EDI into practice 

Why it Will Help

Research tells us there is an enormous gap between official organisational narratives on EDI, and the implementation of these aims in practice. Many leaders are committed to creating inclusive workplaces, but require support to translate positive intentions into organisational impact. In this coaching package, we take a two-pronged approach: First exploring general and evidence-based principles for supporting EDI at work; and then learning how to identify the strengths and limitations of your organisation's own systems, processes, policies. 

Target Audience

Organisations who want an evidence-based Professional Development Day, customised to their organisational culture needs. Target audiences can include specific departments (e.g. People and Culture, or teams and divisions with unique development goals); or specific cohorts (e.g. middle-managers, senior leaders, or a project team).

Curriculum

A 5-hour training day (with 2-hours of breaks for morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea), where we will navigate 4-5 themes of your choosing from the below list:

• Introduction to Organisational Culture
• Strategic Communication for Leaders
• Navigating Difficult Performance Conversations
• Navigating Difficult EDI Conversations
• Authority, Hierarchy, and Ethical Leadership
• Establishing Employee Resources Groups
• Leading Hybrid and Flexible Teams 
• Developing Ways of Working Agreements (supervisor/supervisee)
• A Strengths-based Approach to Neurodiversity at Work
• Strategic Planning and Effective Stakeholder Consultation
• Topics outside of this list, but within my range of expertise as a sociologist, can be negotiated 
• You may also choose up to 2 topics listed in any of the above curriculum packages (with some exceptions which would function effectively as standalone topics)

Please note: you will be responsible for providing the venue, and transportation and accomodation will be negotiated at cost depending on location. If on-site collaboration is a priority for you, training days can also be bundled with Strategic Advising services to save on travel costs (e.g. a 1-day training package, with a 1-day advisory package back-to-back).