High Team Potency
Being an effective team member
Team potency is the team’s belief that they can succeed: it is a significant contributor not only to performance but to a team’s ability to adapt.
If team members working effectively together was important pre-pandemic, in a post-pandemic environment where teams are becoming more dispersed and are doing more with less, it is now essential.
While the leader takes accountability for their team’s performance, each team member is responsible for contributing to the positive culture of the team, contributing to a team’s high level of performance, and working with each other to adapt to volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
Sometimes this can be personally risky and could manifest as diverging from the group, raising ‘taboo’ issues or questioning the leader. However, these behaviours are necessary to truly be an effective team member and adapt to change.
This module focuses on the individual’s role in being the best team member they can be and contributing to the value proposition their team delivers to the organisation.
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As a resulting of attending this program, participants will:
Consider the impact of followership and leadership on team dynamics
Create trust between self and team members
Strategically converge with or diverge from the group when necessary
Be authentic in interactions with team members
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Followership
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)
Authenticity
Divergent and convergent thinking
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3-hour virtual delivery
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small group and large group discussion
Case-in-point
Who should attend?
This program is designed for emerging leaders ready to make an impact.
Driving Performance
Engagement, motivation and commitment
Enhancing performance is core business for leaders.
The Independent Review into the Public Service has made a call for ‘empowered managers accountable for developing people and teams.’ To answer this call and optimise performance in their teams, leaders need to understand what sits behind ‘performance’: capability, support and motivation.
This program is focused on empowering participants to positively impact the performance of not only their direct reports, but also their colleagues and even their own managers. Focus areas include strategies to delegate effectively, give effective feedback, and motivate others both intrinsically and extrinsically.
Participants will consider how leaders impact performance through increasing motivation, engagement and commitment to get the best out of their people and consider practical approaches to bring that impact back into the workplace.
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Delegate effectively
Give feedback that enhances performance
Increase commitment and engagement in others
Apply strategies to motivate others intrinsically and extrinsically
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Social mastery: service orientation, relationship management, and leading group processes
Feedback
Motivation
Delegation
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3-hour virtual delivery
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small group and large group discussion
Who should attend?
This program is designed for people managers at all levels.
“Max went above and beyond in caring about each of us and always being open and approachable.
I’m so grateful for your willingness to witness me and to be a support as I came face to face with my shadow and worked out how to be the best leader I can be.
It was way more than I expected and you’re amazing.
Thank you for being you.”
-Assistant Director, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Creating Culture
Embedding your values
“I honestly could not improve on this course as offered to this group today. Everyone participated at the most interactive level I have experienced in a course.”
Leaders cast a wide shadow consisting of what they say, what they do, what they prioritise and what they measure over their team. Team members look to a leader’s shadow to determine ‘what is normal’.
Leaders with a strong set of values show their team that these values are what is ‘normal around here’.
The result is that a positive shadow with positive, value-driven behaviours becomes the culture of the team. However, without careful attention to their leadership shadow, leaders can potentially negatively impact the culture of their team.
Values can be embedded both consciously and unconsciously. Leaders must consider carefully and deliberately what sort of culture they want in their team and then align their leadership shadow to ensure that particular value is embedded into the culture.
This program is focused on giving leaders the tools to embed positive values and behaviours in their team to build a strong culture.
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Consider their own personal value set and those of the organisation
Apply their values to their leadership practice
Embed a positive culture in their team
Reflect on their leadership shadow and the resulting behaviours
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Self-awareness
Social mastery: leading group processes, service orientation, interpersonal savvy
Emotional and social intelligence
Leadership shadow
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5.5-hour virtual delivery (breaks included)
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small group and large group discussion
Practical application: case study
Self-assessment: Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire
Who should attend?
This program is designed for participants at all levels.
The Leadership Toolkit
Full Range Leadership
“A great mix of breakout groups, engagement and conversation.”
Finding themselves in a new leadership role, emerging leaders encounter an increased locus of influence and a shift from leading self to leading others. This shift represents a movement from technical expertise to people expertise, and as a result, the requirement of a whole new set of capabilities needed to drive progress in teams.
In the public sector, effective leadership is crucial for addressing complex challenges, driving innovation, and delivering high-quality services to the public.
Full Range Leadership is a dynamic and comprehensive leadership framework that enable leaders to adapt and excel in environments that require people leadership. It forms a spectrum of leadership practices that form the basis of most advanced leadership styles.
It includes transformational and transactional leadership, and the use of structural power that allow leaders to influence outwards to drive performance and outcomes from their teams.
This program focuses on how new leaders can adapt their behaviours and styles to suit different situations, foster employee engagement, drive team performance, and create a positive work environment.
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As a resulting of attending this program, participants will:
Wield influence to achieve outcomes
Increase engagement and commitment
Use structural power ethically and effectively
Adapt to situational needs of team members
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Transformational leadership
Transactional leadership
Adaptation
Driving performance
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3-hour virtual delivery
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small group and large group discussion
Practical application
Who should attend?
This program is designed for those who are new to leadership and want to establish a broad base of skills to build on.
“Without a doubt the most beneficial component of the program was Max.
He provided the perfect balance of theory, application and all reinforced with stories.
Max's engaging style was the standout.”
Leading Authentically
Building trust and connection
'Trust among leaders and teams forms the basis of effective outcomes-based management' (APSC, 2020, p.52). Authentic leadership is known to create better trust and connection, higher job satisfaction, and higher job performance amongst team members.
This is particularly important when leading virtually and from afar: how can we trust and be trusted by our followers when we are no longer in the same physical location?
In order to be a more effective leader, participants will look at the four pillars of authentic leadership which posits that Authentic leaders:
are more aware of, and committed to, their core values
identify and are identified by followers as a leader
possess high levels of emotional intelligence
seek congruence between their actual and ideal selves (Gardner et al., 2005).
This program looks at developing a leader's authenticity as well as applying authentic behaviours both in the workplace and when leading teams from afar.
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As a resulting of attending this program, participants will:
Manage their own emotions and interactions with others
Communicate more transparently with their team
Seek and own feedback from others
Consider their impact on those around them
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Self-determination and self-awareness
Communication and relational transparency
Balanced processing
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3-hour virtual delivery
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ)
Practical activity: Transparency in communication
Who should attend?
This program is designed for those who want to influence team outcomes and team culture by building greater levels of trust.
Suitable for participants at all levels.
Inspiring Followership
Building effective leader/follower relationships
The best leaders are also the best followers. Leadership is an influence relationship between leaders and followers. Leaders need to be able to build productive relationships through transformational leadership to get the best out of their people.
As a result, leaders must be able to inspire team members to have the courage to accept responsibility, courage to serve, courage to question, the courage to be part of necessary change and the courage to take a moral stand where necessary.
This program looks at what an effective follower does and how the leader can influence effective follower behaviours.
In this module, participants will consider the way they communicate with their followers and build buy-in.
They will also consider how to empower their followers and encourage diversity of thought when dealing with the most complex problems.
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Create an environment that encourages constructive, divergent views
Build higher levels of team potency
Apply transformational leadership to increase follower performance
Empower their followers to give input and take ownership of problems
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Followership
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)
Authenticity
Transformational Leadership
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3-hour virtual delivery
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small group and large group discussion
Who should attend?
This program is designed for more established managers who want to rely less on their positional authority and achieve greater influence through leadership.
You and your Team Leaders are one step away from breaking new ground in Team Performance, Culture and Authenticity.
Join us for a Leadership Essentials workshop.
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