Description
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Module Information
A key aspect of connected leadership is enabling others to perform at
their best. For many leaders this involves teams - whether fixed and
long-standing or flexible and short-term. Great team leadership fosters
individual and collective capability to deliver outcomes in a way that
is consistent with organisational values (Collaboration, Compassion,
Inclusion and Integrity). This module explores what characterises
effective teams and wise team leadership. It offers practical approaches
to build leaders’ confidence in action.
Participants will be expected to identify team examples, issues and
challenges to work on through the Module.
Workshop 1: Leading Teams
The first workshop will consider our perspectives on effective teams and
wise team leadership. It will invite exploration of good examples in
the University and beyond. What do these teams do particularly well? It
will focus on you - the leader - as a collaborative role model creating
an environment of high trust, openness, learning and shared
accountability for results from often diverse groups. It will also pay
attention to what can help and hinder team effectiveness and what
leaders can do to amplify the conditions for teams to thrive and
contribute.
Workshop 2: Developing Teams
Building on the foundations of Workshop 1, the focus will be on how
teams develop over time and how the leader can shape and steer this. It
will explore the power of team purpose, identity, stories and the
quality of relationships and dialogue within the team – including the
vital capacity to deal with conflict and disagreement in a healthy way.
In an increasingly anxious world and workplace it will explore what it
means to foster individual and team well-being in a hybrid working
context. The importance of time to reflect, share, enjoy and celebrate
will also be explored.
Workshop 3: Maximising Team Impact
This workshop turns attention increasingly outward to the team’s
reputation and relationships in the wider University and HE eco-system.
It will explore how the team operates in a complex context and deals
with challenge and feedback, keeping a learning and improvement
orientation. It explores the risk of team silos and how the team
balances progressing its own goals within the overall University
strategy. A focus will be on working collaboratively with stakeholders
and other teams. It will explore how to deal with tensions when
differences of perspective exist and how to address and resolve these in
service of the greater good. The final hope is for participants to
plan how to sustain learning about great team leadership!
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