Developing Community Leaders

Registrations are now being accepted
for the 2010 Emerging Leadership program.

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Emerging Leadership is an inspiring program which offers organisations a unique opportunity to transform promising staff members into its next generation of leaders. The program focuses on developing the talents and potential leadership skills of its participants in the context of their individual workplaces as well as the community services sector as a whole.

The curriculum has been designed in consultation with a series of expert stakeholders and its principles are underpinned by changing influences currently affecting the sector. It is intensive, critical and holistic, providing organisations a valuable opportunity to invest in the talent and leadership skills of its staff.

The Emerging Leadership Program is an evidence-based leadership program that is designed to be:

‘Real world’ based - reflecting the realities and complexities faced by the community services sector
Transformative - growing emerging leaders to take on the challenges of ethical leadership
Holistic – deepening self knowledge and the practice of the many dimensions of leadership and systemic thinking
Sustainable – building courage and providing skills to face the confusion and pressures of leadership
Connective – affording opportunities to develop intimate leadership networks
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History
The Emerging Leadership Program was launched in 2008 and turned out twenty Community Services sector graduates. The group reported a very high level of satisfaction and felt that their learning was stretched in more ways that one:

“Going through the emerging leaders process of connecting with my values base, and the values of principled leadership; getting the coaching from Isabelle and receiving targeted feedback on my leadership styles, was an incredible opportunity for growth for me. I now know that I can not only have a positive influence, but a really strong positive influence. I truly celebrate any organisation that invests in their people and signs them up for this program”

- Emerging Leader Graduate 2008

In November 2009, another fifteen community service participants will graduate.

Why invest in emerging leaders?

As an employer, would you like to invest in talented staff who have the potential for team or organisational leadership?
As a professional, are you keen to influence the quality and direction of human services work and develop your leadership potential so you can make a real difference?

Research suggests that managers/coordinators who are able to inspire and create great places for people to work also attract and retain excellent employees. The Emerging Leadership Program aims to strengthen the relationship between management and leadership as a key workforce development strategy.

Participants will have the opportunity to grow as leaders through:

a conscious focus on leadership development with a work- based application
networking with other emerging leaders
membership of an alumni which offers ongoing development opportunities.

Participating organisations will benefit by:

a return on investment through the loyalty and growth of nominated emerging leader(s)
the transfer of learning to the organisation through the work-based project
an affordable opportunity to embed leadership development and succession planning into organisation planning.

The Emerging Leadership Program is made up of a number of key components. These include:

Engaging with skilled leaders in a series of workshops
Being supported and extended into action through individual coaching sessions
Participating in small group collaborative learning sessions to practice new skills, and to critically reflect on learnings and work practices
Leading a work-based change management project

These components build on each other to create a complementary, multi-layered approach to developing leadership.

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The workshop program gives participants the opportunity to learn from a range of experts in the field, building on awareness of the leadership dimension of management.

Orientation and launch of 2010 program

March 9 CCWT Management & Isabelle Phillips

Ethical leadership for a civil society

March 10 Phil Glendenning

Expand your leadership frame of reference through the lens of civic contribution, social inclusion, fairness and equity. This workshop will prompt you to take a stand as a leader in the community and ask: “In whose interests is my leadership exercised and offered?” Explore a social justice framework for leadership.

Leaders as Culture Builders

27th & 28th July Isabelle Phillips

Build healthy and sustainable organisational cultures. In this workshop you will be introduced to a powerful tool that gives you insight into four dimensions of great leadership.

How to Build Resilience through Adaptive Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

15th & 16th June Dr Rob McNeill

Learn about building resilience for sustainability in increasingly complex environments. This workshop invites you to investigate a cooperative context for leadership that is responsive to change and innovation at all levels of organisation.

Building High Performance Teams

20th July Isabelle Phillips

Learn how to create greater engagement, celebrate a win or support staff through difficult changes. In this workshop, you will walk though a fail-safe process to design your next team building activity that you can apply to gain increased engagement, extra discretionary effort, better bonding and acceptance of diversity.

Strategic Thinking in Leadership

21st July Emma Partridge and Chris Riedy*

Discover alternative approaches to planning and direction that take account of future opportunities and critical uncertainties in the community sector environment. A variety of differing models will be explored, including futurist thinking, Back-casting and Joined up thinking.

*The Institute for Sustainable Futures – UTS

Leading Change: Doing what works in community service management

7th September Grace Leotta

This workshop will critically examine participants experiences during their work-place project to embed a new understanding of how to lead through a change management process.

Collaborative learning sessions

The program includes three facilitated collaborative learning sessions, spread throughout the year, to tie together learnings from the program. These facilitated sessions will provide opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and feedback among the emerging leaders. Learning in these sessions is interactive, with experiences and ideas being shared among the participants. Drawing on the principles of learning circles, these collaborative sessions will:

honour the collective wisdom and experience of the participating emerging leaders
promote sharing among the participants as a meeting of equals
create an environment of reciprocity, trust and respect for the diversity within the group.
empower the participants to make informed choices and take action to bring the tools and learning from the workshops, their workplace project and the coaching back into their role as leaders within the community sector.

Individual coaching

Participants will receive three individual coaching sessions with Isabelle Phillips from Mackeral Sky (Training-Coaching-Leadership Development). Coaching sessions will be scheduled at a time that suits the participant and will be conducted over the phone.

Isabelle has over 3000 hours of coaching experience, working with CEO’s, team leaders, senior executives and direct care workers to set and achieve inspiring goals. When you are seeking to take your leadership skills to the next level having a coach by your side will assist you to:

gain clarity on your vision

build strategies to get there

set milestones to track and recalibrate your progress

increase your self-awareness

benefit from someone who is trained to support your thinking as you address old and new challenges

celebrate your successes and overcome challenges with someone who has walked the journey with you and is totally there to support your agenda.

What is a coach?

A coach is someone trained to support your thinking to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. A coach uses questioning and clarifying techniques to allow you, as the only true expert on your situation, to achieve the positive change you are seeking. A coach may introduce you to new frameworks that you can apply to benefit your professional and personal effectiveness.

Coaching is not mentoring

Coaching differs from mentoring as coaching assists you to do the thinking. Coaching leaves you with the benefits that you have implemented in the organisation, the knowledge of how you made the improvements and the new ways of thinking and behaving that have allowed you to do this. Your team and organisation will benefit from what you have achieved during the coaching. After the coaching your new ways of thinking about leadership go on paying you dividends.

Coaching is not counselling

Coaching is used by healthy populations to take their business, professional and personal goals to the next level. People who give themselves the gift of a three or six month coaching series describe it as an extraordinarily exciting and alive time.

Workplace project

The workplace project gives emerging leaders the opportunity to introduce their insights, learning and development into their own individual workplaces. In other words, the project invites the emerging leader to explore the question: ‘How is this program having an impact on my workplace and how is my development as a leader bringing this about?’ The scope for the workplace project will be discussed at the orientation day.

Emerging Leadership FacilitatorsTop Download Facilitator Information
Phil Glendenning
Phil is the director of the Edmund Rice Centre, an organisation which seeks to bring forth a re-commitment to those on the margins of society and a renewed appreciation of humanities multi-cultural heritage. He is also the National President of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) and the author of the Australian Citizens' Statement that is the basis for ANTaR's Sea of Hands. With a background in education, Third World development and political science, today Phil is primarily involved in peace and reconciliation work - especially with youth - in Australia, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Rwanda and Aboriginal Australia. Previously he was the national adult education and information officer of Caritas Australia.
Robert McNeilly
Dr Robert McNeilly had been working in a suburban Melbourne general medical practice for 10 years when, inspired by the late Milton Erickson’s human approach to therapy, created his own interpretation of dealing in a respectful, dignified way with human dilemmas that affect individuals, couples and families. He founded the Centre of Effective Therapy in l988 to introduce Ericksonian Hypnosis and the Solution Oriented Approach to hypnosis, counselling and coaching in Australia. He is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for his teaching style, writing and unique approaches to learning and therapy which allow for a ready application into everyday living. He is the author of “Healing With Words” published by Wiley, and is co-author, with Jenny Brown, of "Healing With Words".Crown House has published a series of DVD demonstrations of counselling and hypnosis. Students comment on his easy, respectful manner and his elegant ability to make complex issues approachable while retaining their essence.
Isabelle Phillips
Isabelle Phillips B.Ed MRSCA, is a management consultant specialising in talent management, leadership development and service excellence. Isabelle has more than 15 years of experience in talent attraction, retention and development, which includes consulting for not-for-profits, community organisations and human services government agencies. Isabelle assists her clients to develop highly effective leadership styles using her accreditations and experience in coaching, training and psychometrics. She has a passion for developing inspiring leaders who create great places to work. Her coaching and training style is built upon genuine care for her clients’ current challenges and future growth.
Chris Riedy and Emma Partridge
Chris Riedy and Emma Partridge are researchers at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, a research and consulting organisation based at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Institute's mission is to create change towards sustainable futures, and Chris and Emma do this by producing independent, project-based research. They work for a range of clients in industry, government and the community, and help to translate sustainability principles into action using a variety of approaches. The Institute works across all aspects of sustainability, and both Chris and Emma have a particular interest in the social dimensions of sustainable futures. More information about the Institute can be found at: www.isf.uts.edu.au
Grace Leotta
Grace Leotta is an organisational development and training consultant for non-government and government community services. She has a worked in community services as a service manager, community development worker, family worker and trainer. Grace has also lectured at a tertiary level on community consultation, community management and social science. As well as developing and conducting training, Grace conducts service/program reviews and evaluations, facilitates planning, community consultation and organisational development/change management processes. She has qualifications in social studies, adult education and training, community management, community participation and consultation, and facilitation.

- History
- Why invest in emerging leaders?
- Program Outline
- Collaborative learning sessions
- Individual coaching
- Workplace Project
- The Facilitators

Program Registration

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The full cost of the Emerging Leadership Program is $2,300. This covers workshops, coaching sessions, behavioral learning tools and learning materials. Each participant is required to make a personal contribution of $200 towards the program. The cost of the program for employers is $2,100.

For a discussion on how this program may suit you or your organizations needs, please phone Jessie Williams on 02 9281 8822 or email Jessie@acwa.asn.au

Location

All workshops will take place at the Centre for Community Welfare Training head office:

Level 4
699 George St
Haymarket (Sydney) NSW 1240
Ph: (02) 9281 8822
Fax: (02) 9281 8827

The Emerging Leadership Program is proudly presented by the Centre for Community Welfare Training and Mackerel Sky

Proudly presented by ACWA in partnership with mackerelSKY,
and conducted through the
Centre for Community Welfare Training (CCWT)