Leading people and teams lies at the core of leadership, and the ability of leaders to effectively communicate, engage, support, and empower those around them is critical. This course explores a range of techniques that leaders can use to grow excellence in people and teams, including how to productively approach conflict and engage in challenging conversations.
This course has over 25 interviews including:
Professor Emeritus Viviane Robinson, University of Auckland
Denise Evans, Lawyer, Mediator and Arbitrator
Associate Professor Sue Cherrington, Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Madeleine Dobson, Curtin University
Jeanette Kehoe-Perkinson, Global Executive Director
Brenda Soutar (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki), Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa
Jacqui Lees, Head Teacher Papkuranga Baptist Kindergarten
Bruce Cotterill, Business Leader
Dr Sonja Arndt, University of Melbourne
Salā Faasaulala Tagoilelagi-Leota, Massey University
Associate Professor Kate Thornton, Victoria University of Wellington
The course is structured into eight parts, with each part designed to take about a week to work through, although participants are free to work at their own pace.
Explores the impact of team culture on all activities of an organisation and supports participants to develop a vision for team culture informed by the organisation’s values.
Builds knowledge of why both personal and team wellbeing is so important, and provides strategies for promoting teacher wellbeing and supporting the strengths, needs, and passions of team members.
Explores how to identify conflict and determine when it is a problem that requires action, and provides a suite of practical strategies that can be employed to address conflict constructively.
Builds an understanding of what the concept of distributed leadership means (and doesn’t mean) and different approaches that could be employed in participants’ own settings to initiate or expand distributed leadership.
Focuses on what effective professional development looks like, how it can be connected to appraisal processes, and what this could look like in participants’ own contexts.
Equips participants with the formal procedures and practical skills they need to engage in courageous conversations, and the opportunity to practice implementing these with others.
Presents the principles of mentoring and coaching, and provides participants with coaching and mentoring procedures and strategies and the opportunity to practice utilising them to support others.
Develops an understanding of the causes of resistance to change among team members and supports leaders to know how to effectively manage a variety of change processes.
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Group discounts of 15-25%
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Please note, all our courses are best completed on a desktop/laptop computer or tablet. Because of the amount of content, we do not recommend using a phone.
* Lifetime access means for as long as the course is hosted on The Education Hub
Group discounts apply to the full price, and can only be applied in one transaction, not retrospectively, or on the addition of more enrolments.
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