Emerging Leaders Program
Most leadership development programs are about "what you do" as a leader - they provide a foundational tool kit. The Emerging Leaders program is different - it's about "who you are" as a leader. We explore your unique strengths and what drives you as a leader, consider how you want to be seen by others, and look at how you lead when you are at your personal best.
This program targets emerging or recently established leaders, staff who find themselves in formal leadership roles for the first time, or who aspire to such roles.
We will explore your unique strengths and what drives you as a leader, consider how you want to be seen by others, and look at how you lead when you are at your personal best. The program also helps you understand your impact on others when you are not at your best and how to put strategies in place to manage your leadership shadow.
The cost to register up to 8 people is $4990+GST, which includes all pre/post-work, a 30-minute introductory session and four x 2-hour small group sessions.
Recent Testimonials
“Useful, targeted and practical. The course makes the participant reflect, consider and become more self aware from the get go, creating tangible opportunity to implement their learning in the real world straight away.”
“A superb and impressively splendid leadership training program which is very straightforward, and creating the opportunities to learn from others by sharing.”
Program Structure
Introduction
30-minutes (virtual)
Welcome & Ways of working together
Session 1
2-hours
Understanding Self
Reflection and Action
e-resources +
Pre-work for Session 2
Session 2
2-hours
Being Best Self
Reflection and Action
e-resources +
Pre-work for Session 3
Session 3
2-hours
Understanding Others
Reflection and Action
e-resources +
Pre-work for Session 4
Session 4
2-hours
Building Better Relationships
Leadership Development Plan
Delivery
- Up to 8 participants can be registered in each program. The small group size guarantees participants a high degree of interaction, and individual attention.
- Group coaching sessions will be scheduled in consultation with the organisation for dates/times that suit the group.
- Pre-work and other supporting resources will be provided throughout the program.
- Sessions normally scheduled 3-4 weeks apart to maintain momentum.
- The program will normally run over a period of 3-4 months.
- To maintain participant confidentiality, sessions are not recorded..
- For face-to-face delivery, the venue is to be organised by the client, noting that a well-chosen venue can enhance the experience.
- The program can be delivered virtually (via Zoom) or face-to-face. To enable work in breakout rooms, participants need to join the Zoom meeting from their own device.
Small Group Coaching Approach
While leadership coaching is traditionally delivered one-to-one, these small group coaching programs provide an opportunity for participants to normalise their experience and learn from the collective wisdom of the group.
Each group coaching session has a clear focus and is highly experiential, with an action-learning approach that enables the learning to be applied to solve real work challenges. Coaching uses an action learning approach and at the end of each session participants will be asked to clarify the action or experiment to which they are committed. As part of the program design, between sessions, participants will be encouraged to experiment with new tools and behaviours.
Testimonials from Past Participants (2020-2024)
“Program was well balanced between providing insightful information and thinking and developing yourself in collaboration with peers. It was great to work alongside others and create networks of support at the site. These have already been utilised and a great effect.”
“Reflective practices are vital to all aspiring leaders (and current leaders), and the need to distance the self from discussions is very important.”
“The sessions gave me an opportunity to reflect on where I am at in my leadership journey, who I aspire to be more like and how I can get there. It was great having the time to really deeply reflect on what my strengths are and why I work really well with some people, but only sort of ok with others.”
“Having attended and fulfilled several leadership roles at a residential college during my uni years, I would highly recommend this style of coaching for young leaders, particularly to encourage reflection on values and promote skills surrounding emotional intelligence in the more formative years for young professionals.”
“I think it’s very useful as growth as individuals (not just leaders) to be able to understand yourself and others better. Also, conflict resolving and understanding emotional intelligence is always a useful skill to have.”
“Useful, targeted and practical. The course makes the participant reflect, consider and become more self aware from the get go, creating tangible opportunity to implement their learning in the real world straight away.”
“Informative, eye opening and hopefully a road map to take with me.”
“It is a beautiful and safe environment where you can reflect on yourself and improve yourself with no judgement.”
“Program was well balanced between providing insightful information and thinking and developing yourself in collaboration with peers. It was great to work alongside others and create networks of support at the site. These have already been utilised and a great effect.”
“The added confidence and ability to know how to use a range of strategies to deal with the many and varying situation. This was both inspiring, challenging and reflective at the same time. The check lists and acronyms are also easy to remember are now part of my ‘toolkit’. I feel more confident to deal with situations no matter what skills, abilities, motivation and or challenges that are presented.”
“I feel the sessions brought out the best in me. I have learnt to carefully consider my actions and choices before I speak with other professionals, so that I can support them and communicate my intentions with more clarity.”
“Each session opened up new learnings and built on the previous – identifying strength and shadow behaviours and being able to identify them. The final session brought everything together – listening, questioning and tough conversations are all key areas of development.”
“To consider what is motivating other people’s actions and thoughts as a way to managing relationships with others. Also the guidelines on how to have tough conversations with others.”
“Knowing our strengths and using that knowledge to approach situations can allow us to gain more from the situation and contribute and collaborate more effectively. Overusing our strengths can cause shadow and often affect others inadvertently. It is really beneficial having the professional/personal reflective conversations with others as much to hear other people speak as being heard. The listening task was very powerful.”
