Leadership Development Masterclass with Bond University

Registration and light lunch

Welcome

Session 1 – The Changing Nature of Leadership

This session involves a consideration of what constitutes leadership. There are many concepts that float around in LinkedIn pages and Facebook posts amongst other areas, as people understand that good leadership is essential to successful organisations. This session involves reviewing and discussion of the many perspectives in terms of what leadership constitutes, and how it is situation dependent, and is impacted by the environment. In this context understanding how leadership has changed over time and what effective leadership is in today’s environment is considered.

Learning Outcomes – At the end of the workshop will be able to:

1. Demonstrate their understanding of what leadership is?
2. Explain the social and situational context of leadership
3. Show awareness of the traits required in leadership in modern times

Afternoon Tea

Session 2 – Guidelines for Effective Leadership

Having considered the importance of leadership and what it means, the next step is to look at what makes an individual an effective, an ineffective or even more drastically a “destructive” leaders. Using the results of academic research and wrapping it around participant experience, the session moves beyond the “6 steps to effective leadership” type approach to look at the importance of relationships and the need for flexibility in approach based on circumstance

Learning Outcomes – At the end of the workshop will be able to:

1. Distinguish the traits of an effective leaders
2. Identify the importance of adapting to circumstance as a leader

Day 1 Masterclass Close

Campus Tour of Bond University

Cocktails and Networking – The Atrium, Health Sciences and Medicine, Level 3, Building 5

Hosted by Bond University

An opportunity to networking with your Masterclass colleagues and presenters and principals from leading Alliance schools including Jackie Barron, St Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin, New Zealand; Marise McConaghy, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, VIC; Toni Meath, Melbourne Girls Grammar, VIC; Ros Curtis, St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, QLD; Kate Hadwen, Presbyterian Ladies College Perth, WA, Julia Shea, St Peter’s Girls’ School, SA; Fiona Nolan, Mount Carmel College, TAS; Susan Middlebrook, Tara Anglican Girls’ School, NSW; and Marie Perry, MLC Perth; WA.

Close

Session 3 – Leading with Your Strengths

This session reviews the literature that reinforces that self development is best derived from understanding and using your strengths. The research concludes that being strength focussed results in increased awareness of self and others, of a greater sense of self efficacy, and helps to build stronger teams (amongst other things). With this as a background, individual’s own strengths are identified using as a tool the Clifton Strengthsfinder, followed by discussion about the meaning of the outcomes to each individual and the implications for how they approach leadership roles – including how to focus their time, how to work with strengths of others in the team.

Learning Outcomes – At the end of the workshop will be able to:

1. Outline the benefits of developing an understanding of one’s strengths
2. Demonstrate an appreciation of their individual strengths
3. Develop a plan for self development in terms of maximising their strengths, being aware of areas in which to focus improvement

Morning Tea

Expert panel Q&A with principals and Alliance Executive Members

Panel members: Jackie Barron, St Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin, New Zealand; Marise McConaghy, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, VIC; Toni Meath, Melbourne Girls Grammar, VIC; Ros Curtis, St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, QLD; and Kate Hadwen, Presbyterian Ladies College Perth, WA.

Session 4 –Enabling your Teams through Empowering Leadership 

Facilitated by Baden U’Ren

This session focusses more directly on how a leader nurtures and enables their team and its implications for outcomes. The review is a discussion around organisational principles, and in understanding what drives individuals. Having systems to capitalise on the individual’s motivations and abilities is understood as an imperative in organisational success.

Learning Outcomes – At the end of the workshop will be able to:

1. Distinguish the motivations of individuals that make up organisations
2. Develop an approach to encourage and enable individuals within a team

Lunch

Session 5 – The Challenges of School Leadership and the Leader’s Wellbeing

Given the situational context of leadership discussed in earlier sessions, this session focusses on the particular challenges of school leadership. Many of the issues facing a school leader apply across other roles, but there are nuances and specifics that relate to the School leader. In identifying and discussing the challenges, to focus becomes on understanding the need to actively plan to ensure the leader’s wellbeing – to prevent burn out and cope with the pressures of being a leader.

Learning Outcomes – At the end of the workshop will be able to:

1. Developed awareness of the common challenges in School leadership
2. Prepared an action plan to manage personal well being in light of these challenges

Afternoon tea

Session 6 – Developing “My” Leadership Plan

This session is about applying the lessons from the above, and applying it to each individual’s stage in the leadership journey – and developing an understanding of their objectives, identifying the focus for self development in proficiencies, in skills and knowledge, and considering a practical plan by which they will undertake this journey.

Learning Outcomes – At the end of the workshop will be able to:

1. Produce a personal development plan – outlining short and longer term objectives, and a strategy to assist in achieving those objective

Masterclass Close