Leading for Transformation
Leading for Transformation
Hone your leadership skills, access great tools and connect with other leaders
Leading for Transformation is an online program that will equip leaders with the skills, knowledge, tools and connections required to take the next big step in their leadership journey.
Leaders who want to get more done need to start doing less.
But when you're so used to doing the doing, it can be difficult to take a step back and start leading.
Leading for Transformation provides space for middle and senior managers to lift their gaze and look at the big picture.
Taking place each Monday across 4 weeks, we'll be bringing together leaders from across Australia, via Zoom, to hone their leadership skills and explore what it truly means to lead.
Leaders will be invited to use the program to challenge themselves between each of the sessions, immediately strengthening their leadership capabilities with an opportunity to debrief with their peers and ICDA's expert training team.
Participants will work alongside other leaders and have the opportunity to connect with professionals in their sector.
The course includes a personality test, leadership materials, a 45-minute one-on-one debrief with a career development coach who will help you to absorb the information you've learned and to make plans to put your new knowledge into action.
Key details
Leading for Transformation takes place over four half days (9am–midday AEDT) each Monday from November 18 to December 9, 2024.
| Monday 18 November | Monday 25 November | Monday 2 December | Monday 9 December |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meet your fellow leaders | Leadership and management | Leadership through strategy | Leadership and yourself |
| Leadership and governance | Effectively working with a team | Leadership through culture | Self-care and change management |
Registration costs $990.00. This includes access to the entire four days of learning, all learning materials, a personality test, and a 45-minute one-on-one debrief with a leadership coach.
What's covered?
In this module we’ll explore various leadership models and reflect on which model aligns with your leadership style or the kind of leader you aspire to be. This module will help you to understand how your team members respond to leadership and how to empower and inspire them.
This module will focus on how to keep sight of the big picture while you’re in the midst of everyday operational work, including how to work with the board. We’ll explore delegation tools and look at how you can use your leadership to motivate others and increase capacity within your organisation.
In this module we’ll look at the benefits and challenges that come with organisational change and reflect on our individual responses to change. We’ll discuss how effective leadership can support people through resistance and blockages, and explore the tools that help leaders to navigate change.
This module explores organisational culture and its impact on strategy. What is culture? How do we protect or adapt it to drive rather than block strategic plans? Participants will explore how to create a culture that supports and rewards learning and innovation.
In this module we’ll look at how to be an ethical leader and cultivate ethical practices within the team and the organisation. As leaders, we are required to make decisions that protect our people and our organisation, so how do we ensure we are also protecting our ethics? Participants will leave with a greater understanding of ethical behaviour and decision making, and increased confidence as effective and ethical leaders.
Good leadership requires good self-awareness. This module focuses on you as an individual, and as a leader. What drives you? What do others see in you? What gives you energy and how do you recognise the signs of stress so you can avoid burnout? We’ll share tips, strategies and tools to support your health along your leadership journey so you can thrive as a leader.
Meet the team
Training Lead, ICDA
Trainer, ICDA
Career and Workplace Coach
What people say...
“ICDA’s Leading for Transformation course is a truly worthwhile experience. It was an absolute pleasure working with and learning from a diverse range of leaders from right across Australia and New Zealand, spanning various sectors and leadership roles. A really common theme that kept coming up was how we can all get stuck in the minutiae of the day-to-day, irrespective of our roles. We discussed some really practical reflective tools to help us to remember to return to the bigger picture and I was able to exercise these in practice in both my professional leadership and voluntary NFP Board capacities.”
“The Leading for Transformation course is a great form of ‘self-care’ – a reminder of why we lead; thinking about how to take that next step; and a fantastic opportunity to share a room with leaders across the diverse and inspirational for-purpose sector.”
“Leading for Transformation blends leadership theory with practical, actionable insights that I was able to implement immediately. The working groups facilitated collaboration with peers from various industries, enriching the learning experience with diverse perspectives. The course enabled me to refine my leadership approach, and the personalised coaching debrief was invaluable in creating a plan for applying the lessons learned. Highly recommended for anyone leading in the NFP sector, who wishes to broaden their leadership capabilities.”
“The course is great. Full of those ‘1%’ tidbits – both from the trainers and the shared knowledge in the room. Two days, but the practical tips and encouragement have already been priceless.”