Workshop overview

Our first two workshops invite you to explore your sponsorship identity and impact referring to the 4 levels of sponsorship: mentoring, connecting, amplifying and advocating.

We explore these levels as adaptive challenges requiring adaptive leadership. As distinct from technical challenges, adaptive challenges can’t be solved by acquiring new skills and knowledge. We need to evolve at the level of mindset and identity. This is the inner game of leadership that mediates the outer game.

To train your inner game and support your adaptive leadership journey, we’ll unpack three core elements:

• Your personality - how you show up, your incredible strengths and how they are overplayed to reveal your growth edge
• Your perspective - broadening your perspective by understanding how your ego, mindset and identity shapes your view and drives your behaviour
• Your practice - developing new sponsorship habits to achieve your adaptive challenge

Program overview

• Program information pack

Worksheets / workbooks

• Adaptive leadership e-workbook (PDF)
• ‍Baselining your sponsorship impact worksheet
• Stages of adult development
• Drama cards
• Presence cards
• Practice cards
• Immunity to Change X-Ray

Articles

• Adaptive challenges: The real reason people won't change
• What's the difference between a mentor and a sponsor?
• Want More Diverse Senior Leadership? Sponsor Junior Talent.
• The right way to find a career sponsor
• Mentoring someone with imposter syndrome
• ‍What stage of adult development are you at?
• How to reach higher stages of adult development
• You can increase your mental complexity
• Why is change so hard?

Podcasts

• Jim Dethmer: Leading from above the line
• Jim Collins: Relationships v transactions
• Kris Cordle: Releasing the ego
• Caroline Webb: How to have a good day during a global pandemic

Animations

• The line
• Owning outcomes
• Drama triangles

Workshop overview

In this session we’re digging deep on the role of connectors. Connectors build a deep understanding of talent needs, interests and aspirations and provide warm introductions to beneficial groups and contacts. Understanding the limits of our own expertise and knowledge, and the capability of others in our network, is key.

Before this session you will have practiced some connector moves and will bring your experience to the discussion.

Materials and content

Worksheets / workbooks

• Coming soon

Articles

• Power to the connectors
• How connector managers create star performers

Workshop overview

Amplifiers provides opportunities and platforms where talent can demonstrate their ability, and then back up their position or argument in public forums, when required. Discernment is key; if we amplify everything we hear nothing.

Perhaps the trickiest role is calling out voices that dominate or drown out others.

In this session we’ll discuss what success you’ve had or challenges you’ve faced in amplifying your sponsees and others. We’ll also unpack the difficulty in calling out voices that dominate.

Materials and content

Worksheets / workbooks

• Coming soon

Articles

• Amplifying your colleagues voices benefits everyone
• Why amplifiers matter
• Why great leaders are amplifiers

Workshop overview

Being an advocate is the highest impact and highest risk level of sponsorship. It requires you using your reputational capital to advocate for someone’s promotion. That involves identifying the promotion potential in others and being attune to promotion opportunities before you can effectively push for their advancement.

In this session we’ll look at barriers to effective advocacy and ways you can advocate for your sponsee, and others.

Materials and content

Worksheets / workbooks

• Advocacy workbook (PDF)
• Advocacy workbook (word version)

Articles

• Sponsors need to stop acting like mentors
• How leaders create and use networks

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