Workshop overview

The world needs more good leaders. Leaders inspire and drive communities to act, they bring out the talents and potential in the people they serve, and they challenge the status quo to create novel ways of solving tricky problems.

In this first session of the EREA Pathways to Leadership program, we’re going to spend the day developing your leadership potential.

Program overview

• Program overview

Worksheets / workbooks

• Leadership potential workbook
• Your leadership profile
• Immunity to change workbook
• Immunity to change x-ray template
• Drama cards
• Best stuff worksheets
• Your leadership challenge template
• Sponsorship playbook: unlock potential with effective sponsorship
• Decision rights and decision making
• Gratitude and appreciation
• Workshop 1 presentation slides

Articles

• Adaptive challenges: the real reason people won't change
• Importance of values
• Six ways to become an intentional leader
• 3 steps towards being a more intentional leader

Animations

• The line
• Owning outcomes
• Drama triangles
• Defining decision rights

Workshop overview

Your leadership challenge is a core component of this program experience. It provides the platform for you to apply much of what we discuss throughout the program in a high visibility, strategic context.

In this session we will discuss how to develop a project proposal that secures buy-in and budget (if necessary), and showcases the impact you can have.

Materials and context

Worksheet

• Sponsee leadership challenges
• Impactful proposal presentation
• Feedback request email
• Alissa Falla: Technology of Participation presentation
• Jodie Connor: Impact and influence presentation
• Shifting from drama to presence
• Visual: drama triangles
• Visual: above the line
• Workshop 2 Zoom recording (password: ?NGY7Ur1)

Workshop overview

In this session, we’re looking at your leadership profile, focusing on:

• What you are known for
• The gaps between how you want to be seen and your current profile, plus ways to close that gap
• How to use LinkedIn to elevate your profile

Materials and content

Worksheets / workbooks

• Your leadership profile (PDF)
• Your leadership profile (Word version)
• Presence cards

Articles

• The importance of building your leadership profile
• Define your leadership brand in 5 steps
• Building your LinkedIn profile
• How women can avoid 'crappy' jobs
• Managing yourself: bringing out the best in your people
• How to build your team's capacity
• Mind tools: increasing your visibility

Workshop overview

The road to leadership can be tricky. Having a career strategy backed up by influential advocates is essential. In this session we’ll cover:

• Beginning with the end in mind: What will be your legacy?
• Setting goals to achieve your vision
• Mapping activity to achieve your goals
• Milestones and celebrations

Materials and content

Worksheets / workbooks

• Career strategy workbook (pdf)
• Career strategy workbook (word)

Workshop overview

In this final session, we’ll wrap up the program in a face-to-face with your sponsors where we’ll cover:

• Progress you’ve made with your adaptive challenge
• Leadership challenge showcase – present your challenge in groups for recognition and feedback
• Pay it forward – what can you do to share what you’ve learned with others

Materials and content

We'll largely refer to existing materials and content in this session.