In this session, participants will explore the concept of sensegiving as a fundamental aspect of leadership influence and storytelling. They will learn how to effectively shape the sensemaking and meaning-making processes of others to inspire, motivate, and guide their teams. Participants will also identify the various ways sensegiving occurs within organizations and the roles they can and should play as potential future leaders.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the concept of sensegiving and its significance in leadership influence and storytelling
• Learn how to effectively shape the sensemaking and meaning-making processes of others
• Identify the various ways sensegiving occurs within organizations
• Develop strategies to enhance leadership influence through effective sensegiving

Content and Model:

• Sensegiving: Definition, importance, and key components
• Techniques for shaping sensemaking and meaning-making in others
• The role of storytelling in leadership influence and sensegiving
• Strategies for enhancing leadership influence through sensegiving

Exercises Options:

• Assessing personal sensegiving skills and identifying areas for improvement – 30 mins
• Group discussions: Sharing experiences and strategies for effective sensegiving – 45 mins
• Role-playing exercises: Practicing storytelling and sensegiving in various leadership scenarios – 60 mins
• Developing a sensegiving action plan: Identifying goals, strategies, and techniques for improvement – 60 mins

Homework –

Implement the sensegiving action plan and reflect on its effectiveness in enhancing leadership influence and storytelling. Write a 1-2 page reflection on the experience and the lessons learned.

In this session, participants will delve into the importance of self-awareness in effective leadership. They will be guided through a process of introspection, examining their strengths and areas for growth. With a focus on practical tools and strategies, participants will learn how to develop their self-awareness to become better leaders and drive their personal and professional growth.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the role of self-awareness in effective leadership
• Reflect on personal strengths and areas for development
• Develop strategies for enhancing self-awareness and personal growth
• Apply practical tools to foster continuous growth and improvement

Content and Model:

• The importance of self-awareness in leadership
• Methods for assessing personal strengths and areas for growth
• Strategies for enhancing self-awareness and self-reflection
• Practical tools for personal and professional growth

Exercises Options:

• Self-awareness assessment and reflection – 30 mins
• Group discussions: Sharing experiences and strategies for enhancing self-awareness – 45 mins
• Developing a personal growth plan: Identifying goals, strategies, and tools for improvement – 60 mins
• Role-playing exercises: Practicing self-reflection and adaptability in challenging situations – 90 mins

Homework –

Implement the personal growth plan and regularly reflect on progress, adjusting the plan as needed. Write a 1-2 page reflection on the experience, the progress made, and the lessons learned.

In this session, participants will learn the importance of cultivating an inclusive and diverse team that fosters a culture of mutual trust and respect. They will explore various tools and practices that can enhance team interactions, processes, and contributions, ultimately leading to a high-performing team that is more than the sum of its parts. Participants will engage in practical exercises to strengthen their team-building and leadership skills.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the value of building inclusive and diverse teams
• Develop strategies to foster mutual trust and a culture of respect within the team
• Utilize tools and practices to enhance team interactions, processes, and contributions
• Strengthen leadership skills in team-building and collaboration

Content and Model:

• The importance of inclusion and diversity in team-building
• Strategies for fostering trust and a culture of respect within teams
• Tools and practices for enhancing team interactions, processes, and contributions
• Leadership skills and behaviors that promote effective team-building and collaboration

Exercises Options:

• Assessing current team dynamics and identifying areas for improvement – 30 mins
• Group discussions: Sharing experiences and strategies for building trust and respect – 45 mins
• Role-playing exercises: Practicing inclusive communication and collaboration – 60 mins
• Developing a team-building action plan: Identifying goals, strategies, and practices for improvement – 60 mins
• Evaluating and adapting team-building strategies based on feedback and outcomes – 90 mins

Homework –

Implement the team-building action plan and reflect on its effectiveness in fostering an inclusive and diverse team environment. Write a 1-2 page reflection on the experience and the lessons learned.

In this session, participants will explore how their socialized perspective of self as a leader shapes their thinking, behaviors, and decision-making. They will learn how to recognize and address the positive and negative aspects of their leadership identity and develop strategies to enhance their effectiveness as leaders.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the concept of leadership identity and its impact on thinking, behaviors, and decision-making
• Recognize the positive and negative aspects of one’s leadership identity
• Develop strategies to enhance leadership effectiveness by addressing identity-related challenges
• Reflect on personal experiences and lessons learned to inform leadership growth

Content and Model:

• Leadership identity: Definition, components, and impact on leadership
• Recognizing positive and negative aspects of one’s leadership identity
• Strategies for addressing identity-related challenges
• Personal reflection and growth: Learning from experience

Exercises Options:

• Leadership identity self-assessment – 30 mins
• Small group discussions: Sharing experiences and identity-related challenges – 60 mins
• Personal reflection exercise: Identifying lessons learned and areas for growth – 45 mins
• Developing a leadership identity action plan – 60 mins

Homework –

Reflect on your leadership identity and write a 1-2 page reflection on your strengths, areas for growth, and strategies to address identity-related challenges.

In this session, participants will develop the skills to assess their organization from a holistic, outside-in perspective. They will learn how to recognize the sensitive context of adaptive problems and solutions, and gain practical insights into strategy interpretation and implementation.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the principles of systems thinking and its relevance in adaptive leadership
• Develop the ability to assess an organization from a holistic and outside-in perspective
• Recognize the contextual nature of adaptive problems and solutions
• Gain practical insights into strategy interpretation and implementation

Content and Model:

• Introduction to systems thinking: Key concepts and principles
• Holistic organizational assessment: Tools and techniques
• Contextual sensitivity in problem-solving and decision-making
• Practical applications: Strategy interpretation and implementation

Exercises Options:

• Mapping an organization’s system – 45 mins
• Analyzing case studies with a systems thinking approach – 60 mins
• Identifying contextual factors in adaptive problem-solving – 45 mins
• Developing a strategy implementation plan – 60 mins

Homework –

Reflect on a recent organizational challenge and analyze it using systems thinking concepts. Write a 1-2 page reflection on the insights gained and potential solutions identified.

Learning Objectives

• Building a movement – how to curate followership behind your ideas
• Be able to differentiate between different team types and their implications for leading
• How the principles of influence can be applied to influence positively
• Leader as coach – Understand when to use coaching as a leadership style
• Learn how to use coaching to support team members through change and uncertainty, such as helping them manage their emotions

Content and models

• The continuum between simple and complex team and fixed a fluid contexts
• Cialdini’s Principles of influence
• The power of giving power away – practical examples of how 2nd and 3rd followers can unlock potential for great things to happen
• Coaching styles

Exercises

• Differentiating Teams – Workshop the implications for leadership practice when context changes – 30mins
• The principles in action – various activities that help bring the practical use of the principles of influence into clearer view – 60mins
• The intrapreneur challenge – Build a movement behind your idea 60 mins
• Coaching Practice – The 3 way coach ( Noticing (1) Style (2) Emotions (3) facts) 90mins

Learning Objectives

• Explain adult development stages and how they influence leadership perspectives and problem solving capabilities
• Understand 4 Adaptive Capabilities – Sensemaking, Systems Thinking, Problem-solving, Sensegiving – central to adaptive leadership
• Gain the ability to have greater personal Impact from an authentic place
• Gain insight into the importance of ‘impact’ and the degree to which we are more in control of our impact than we might think

Content and model

• Development Stages – R Keegan’s work on adult development stages
• 4 Adaptive Capabilities (Sensemaking, Systems Thinking, Problem-solving, Sensegiving)
• Authenticity Paradox – How the change we try to bring about can lead us to feel inauthentic – lessons from the theatre

Exercises Options

• Identify a challenge – Solve it from stage perspectives – e.g. Tell to facilitative – Harmony to feedback culture – Task to people – Silo to connected – Control to empowerment – 90 mins
• Interactive session with professional actors – with the authenticity challenge of personal change 180 mins

Learning Objectives

• Gain an understanding of how reflective practice supports personal growth
• Learn how one’s identity informs leadership expression and practice
• Learn how great leadership is less reliant on “me” but a social process of creating “us” .
• Work with four common leadership mind traps that can derail leadership efforts and strategies to reduce their impact

Content and models

• Reflective Practice – Gibbs Reflective cycle
• Social identity in leadership – Haslam’s CARE model  (Creating, Advancing, Representing & Embedding “us”)
• The Identity wheel – Where we express our identity from
• The 4 Leader mind traps – Common derailers for leaders – JG Berger 

Exercise Options

• “The Poem” – Learnings gained from unfamiliar tasks – 60mins
• Who are you as a leader? Using the identity wheel to discover the potential bias in your practice and thinking as a leader – 60mins
• Interpreting identity in expressions – How language creates our reality – 30 mins
• Leadership social process – Granting and claiming Leadership and Followership exercise – 30mins
• The Mindtraps – Why and when they occur and what we can do about them exercise – 90 mins

Learning Objectives

• Learn what it means to develop in challenging contexts  
• Understand how increasing complexity in the world is impacting organisational leadership thinking and practice
• Understand how the system can/should influence your leadership practice
• Work with polarities to develop the skills to hold uncertainties and paradox’s in balance

Content and model

• Behavioural patterns explained – how they effect development and practice
• Ralph Stacey Complexity model – Differentiating problem solving approaches
• Comparing Technical V’s Adaptive Challenges and approaches
•  Barry Johnson’s Polarity Management1

Exercises Options

• Contracting on the learning journey upfront with participants  – 30mins
• Reflecting on your reactive and pro-active adaptive capability – Reflecting on leadership and the role context has on their adaptability – 20mins  
• Drivers Questionnaire –  to reveal potential unconscious drivers – 45mins
• Case Study – How to recognise VUCA and Technical V’s Adaptive Challenges  -90mins
• Polarity Management – How leaders increasingly need to hold adaptive problems in balance – Tell to facilitative – Harmony to feedback culture – Task to people – Silo to connected  –  Control to empowerment – 90mins