The Leadership Colloquium is our flagship development program for leadership teams and groups. Customisable to your organisation’s needs, this comprehensive program provides the transformative mindsets and behaviours that will accelerate your leadership team’s performance. Our emphasis on applied learning ensures participants can immediately put their learnings into practice, while building their capacity and confidence to take on increased responsibility.
Karen Taylor
CEO Women & Leadership Australia
Ideal for
Leadership teams and groups at all levels
Duration
7 months
Commitment
2 hours per week
Delivery
Online or blended
Learning outcomes
In this program participants will:
Build their self-awareness and develop a personal leadership vision
Enhance emotional intelligence to create effective communication skills
Understand and address team dysfunctions to improve team culture
Boost coaching, mentoring skills, deliver effective feedback in challenging situations.
Build capacity for innovation within their team and lead change within the organisation
Define strategic direction, reflect on team's capability and performance
Understand leadership practices, deepen collaboration, and connect with peers.
Program moduless
A comprehensive exploration of effective leadership:
Leadership and authenticity
Explore the relationship between authenticity and effective leadership. Embrace strengths-based approach for effective leadership.
Communication, presence and influence
Participants explore their preferred style of communication and the impact on others, and effective communication and influencing skills at an interpersonal, departmental, and organisational level.
Team dynamics
Participants explore managing diverse groups, high-performing team qualities, and effective strategies to foster supportive teamwork cultures.
Driving performance
Participants understand how to provide feedback and motivate their team to exceed performance expectations, and discover techniques for coaching others.
Leading innovation and change
Participants explore the leadership skills involved in driving innovation and change, discuss the way in which innovation and change are inextricably intertwined, and learn how to engage others in change.
Problem solving and decision making
Participants will learn how the framing of a problem affects the analysis and decisions that stem from it, consider how their cognitive and emotional abilities work together to inform how they make decisions, and learn how to match decision making styles to the needs of the problem.
Purpose, priorities and professional development
Participants will learn to develop effective work goals and behaviours to competently manage work priorities, and explore the critical elements of establishing personal work objectives and building competence.
Program experience
A customisable experience for your leadership team
The program delivery is tailored to your organisation's needs and workplace rhythms. This is a unique opportunity to develop your teams' skills and enable them to continue to be highly effective in their day-to-day work.
A sample schedule could involve:
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360° feedback survey prior to commencement
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Blended or online delivery over seven months
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3 full-day workshops (online or face-to-face)
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6 interactive 90-minute webinars
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Self-directed online learning
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4 peer coaching sessions or personalised leadership coaching sessions
Program overview
Empower your leaders with a transformational leadership development experience
For almost 20 years’ we have been supporting leadership transformation in organisations of all sizes and across all industries. This program brings together our extensive experience with the latest research and best practice leadership approaches to optimising team performance, building trust, enhancing inclusivity and increasing staff engagement.
Delivered through a combination of expert-facilitated workshops, self-paced learning, peer coaching and workplace application, the program supports a range of learning styles and maintains a high level of participant engagement.
Best-practice leadership mindsets and behaviours to boost your team’s performance
Comprehensive leadership development program for teams and groups
Customisable to suit your organisation’s goals and workplace rhythms
Blended or fully online delivery options
Suitable for groups of emerging, middle or senior leaders
Applied learning delivers immediate results in the workplace