Leadership Training Workshop, Positive, Authentic and Contemporary Leadership Development Workshop. Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Hobart, Darwin, Australia Wide
Who is this workshop designed for?
• Executive Leaders looking to lead with a contemporary edge
• Senior Leaders focussed on growing a positive, progressive and productive culture
• Leaders looking to grow their authentic style and team member engagement
• Team Leaders aspiring to Senior roles
• Progressive Executive Assistants and Personal Assistant
• Suitable for team leaders and new leaders
Workshop Overview:
The ‘Positive Leader: building strong teams’ is an empowering and insightful workshop which blends key contemporary leadership skills and theories.
It provides an opportunity for participants to appreciate their authentic style and recognise personal leadership strengths.
Discover key strategies to build an engaged and high performing team, through the power of strength-based coaching, feedback and goal setting.
Positive Leadership incorporates looking at what is right with people, it is about building on the positives and engaging strengths.
Those who embrace some of the theories of Positive Leadership are authentic and passionate individuals whose work is shaped by a strong, ‘values-based’ foundation.
This workshop covers four key components:
1) Fostering a positive climate where positive emotions predominate over negative emotions in the work environment.
2) Engaging in positive communication where affirmative and supportive language replaces negative and critical language.
3) Building positive relationships that are a source of enrichment and vitality to the person and the organisation.
4) Reinforcing positive meaning where people feel like they are engaging in meaningful work and positive outcomes.
This workshop is delivered encompassing the theories below.
Mental Toughness: The Positively Charged and Resilient™ Leader
• The Big Picture Australian Trends: Why do people follow?
• Today’s leader: Positive Leadership and mental toughness
• Leading a positive culture: Strategies to build emotional intelligence through self-awareness
• Basic neuroscience of positive emotion: broaden and build theory
• Self-regulation activity: Self-edit of own habitual emotional language
• Reflection and application to their team
• Creating positive rituals
Harnessing Strengths™: energy, engagement and performance
VIA STRENGTHS underpin the applied Science of Wellbeing PERMA framework of personal flourishing.
• VIA character strengths: Creating trust and identifying you at your authentic best through a strengths lens
• Trust foundations = Character + Competence
• Personal signature strengths in the spotlight – at optimum, overuse and underuse
• Self-reflection: participants are moved to pre-determined tables with those with most aligned signature strengths.
• Strengths-based resilience
• Personal leadership legacy statement.
• Bringing strengths into your team – strategies and the research-based benefits
Powerful Communication: growing strong relationships and supporting team member development
• Card activity: Style in conflict or under stress
• Research-based strategies in building strong relationships through powerful communication including practical experience with the positive to constructive communication ratio
• Discover insights into current research into the 3 core areas of positive communication and relevance to an innovative culture
• The power of praise and appreciating strengths to fuel engagement and performance.
• Prepare and share a strength-based conversation
• The conflict cycle: recognise the signs that it is time to talk about a situation Identify our own barriers that prevent communicating.
• Golden rules for the first 30 seconds
• Discover a research-based strategy to building empathy
(even when it may be challenging)
• Use techniques to constructively initiate a positive yet constructive feedback discussion with a team member, peer or your manager.
• Identify practical strategies to assist when responses to feedback are unexpected.
• The power of forgiveness as a leader and how to get there
• Strengths appreciation activity
Change, Challenge and Appreciative Inquiry
• Appreciating Change at a personal level. Certainty vs uncertainty
• What is Appreciative Inquiry?
• Exploring how specific organisational issues can be viewed in a positive way.
• The 4D Model – An overview of the AI 4D Model (Discovery, Dream, Design, Destiny) and how it is applied.
• Appreciative Inquiry Questions – Discover how questions can be used to identify positive organisational improvements and refocus our approach to business issues.
Benefits of this workshop:
• Leaders have an opportunity to enhance their personal leadership presence and authenticity through discovering their strengths.
• Discover research-based strategies to grow their emotional intelligence. 94% of top performers are high in emotional intelligence.
• Identify their own hot buttons and the shadow side to their own strengths
• Identify personal strengths couplings that fuel optimum performance
• Identify key strategies to create a positive environment
• Understanding team member engagement and team dynamics in their current and future team
• Understand the benefits of a coach vs critic mindset
• Give positive and constructive feedback with the clarity of positive intent
• Develop a clearer leadership vision and establish a strength-based goal
• Solve problems within an organisation in a positive and forward-thinking way.
• Be more curious and excited about the challenges faced within the business.
• Ask positive questions to strengthen the organisations capacity to increase potential.
• Approach change in an affirmative mindset.
• Use questions to create movement and change within the company.
Delivery style:
Activities are interactive, non-threatening and give ample opportunity to identify opportunities for application in their own workplace. True to the WunderTraining style – high visual content – to ensure maximum engagement. This is the essential platform to bring out the true leader and Aha moments!
Session outline may vary slightly as courses are regularly updated. We most often tailor to ensure we meet objectives for in-house workshop deliveries of Positive Leader: Building Strong Teams.
Jane Wundersitz the founder of WunderTraining delivers this program
Additional details:
• Extensive manual
• We happily tailor and can align to your strategic plan, vision and values.
Workshop In-house:
Optional one or two-day workshop or delivered over half day intervals.
Small teams through to large conference size groups.
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Recommended reading:
Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance
By renowned researcher Kim Cameron.
He describes what makes positive leadership so positive—what he terms “positively deviant performance”—and notes some of the results that you can expect from such leadership, including impressive gains in productivity and effectiveness.
In this book, you’ll also learn that positive leaders emphasize strengths over weaknesses, foster virtuous values and actions, encourage positive goals, and enable their followers to find meaning in their work.
Kim Cameron is one of Jane’s personal favourite researchers and recommends every leader should read this book. We will happily coordinate the purchase for participants through Amazon.
Recent testimonials:
This workshop has an overall workshop rating of 9.2/10 and has been presented in South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland to a vastly varied client base.
100% would recommend to others
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St Johns School – Leadership Conference Perth
‘On behalf of Donella Beare, our Principal and all of our Leaders, thank you so much for all of your efforts, organisation and contribution in making yesterday such a fantastic day. The feedback has been nothing but positive.’ Valerie
Queensland Academies: Science, Mathematics & Technology Campus- Leadership Development Day 2018
Relevant and so interesting. Open and collaborative and enjoyed the love in of attributes- fab! Thank you so much.
Jess
Dynamic, fun and honest. Enjoyed the variation in activities and the content on positive intent through conflict. Jane
Excellent team building and getting to know the team. Really interesting, enjoyed the content on emotional management.
Highly engaging. Enjoyed the energy and the links to our school culture and our positive education framework. It was great! Kath
The Shire of Shark Bay: Western Australia
10/10 Enjoyed learning the skills I am able to develop and understanding my strengths. Inspiring and self-motivating. Thank you – Rebecca M
Enjoyed learning and having my character strengths revealed and explained. I feel I can now lead my work team more effectively. Enjoyed understanding how people operate and positive communication strategies. Thank you– Jamie
External event feedback:
10/10 Very interactive, relevant and reflective and kept me engaged! I enjoyed the building trust action plan. A Great workshop to learn not only how to manage but how to develop and lead a team. Lisa
Positive and fun yet very, very productive. Thank you so much this is the best training I have ever had. Sangita Baptist Care
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References
Cameron, K. S. (2008). Positive leadership. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Porath, C. (2016). Give your team more-effective positive feedback. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2016/10/give-your-team-more-effective-positive-feedback
Ilies, R., Morgeson, F. P., & Nahrgang, J. D. (2005). Authentic leadership and eudaemonic well-being: Understanding leader-follower outcomes. Leadership Quarterly, 16, 373-394.
Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Authentic happiness: Using the new positive psychology to realize your potential for lasting fulfillment. New York: Free Press.
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