Workshop 1: Role of the tech leader:
An exploration of what leadership means in this environment with insights on current best practice, research and discussion on common challenges faced by the cohort and how these can be addressed in the post-pandemic working environment.
Amid continued uncertainty, leaders with purpose will be the catalysts within their organisation for driving lasting change. This module will also include discussion around the ‘point of change’, and how leaders can successfully navigate through this point to become both a tech visionary and a business leader.
Workshop 2: Leading people and teams:
A. Focus on ‘you’
• Concentrating on your ability to create a strong executive presence, become adept
at strategic decision making and learn how
to truly master a performance mindset.
• Building Trust, empathy & skills-based leadership to support leading cohesive and impactful teams.
• By understanding how to influence and impact stakeholders, you will be able to lead your organisation with vision and purpose.
B. Focus on ‘your team and org’
An exploration of emerging insights on the future of work and leadership and motivation at work, drawing on organisational development behavioural science and neuroscience. A focus on leading teams with a hybrid lens, exploring intentional approaches to ensure fairness, maximise performance and maintain cultural cohesion in hybrid work arrangements. A discussion on role-modelling, building followership, effective team leadership, and talent and performance management in a technology environment.
Workshop 3: Presenting with Impact:
This action-packed day will be highly interactive, engaging and will be delivered
with an emphasis on learning in a challenging yet enjoyable manner.
By the end of the day, participants will have knowledge of:
• The Persuade on Purpose Presenting with Impact model
• The 4 essential criteria for highly effective presentations
• The 6 component parts of effective presentations
Workshop 4: Change Management
The Change Management module addresses the essentials of change dynamics, strategic leadership methods, and techniques for fostering team involvement and overcoming resistance. Attendees will learn to use straightforward models to manage both the technical and personal sides of change. The workshop focuses on enhancing teamwork, emotional intelligence, and resilience in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, ensuring that changes are both implementable and sustainable, in line with organisational goals,
Workshop 5: Stakeholder Management with Simulation exercise:
• Being able to influence and persuade your stakeholders to garner your success as a leader.
• Building capacity to navigate ambiguity and
build their trust in you.
• Effective understanding of your stakeholders, appreciating their triggers and expectations
• Simulation Exercise to test your learning in an experiential environment.