Description
Workshop Overview
If someone is empowered to do something, they have the authority or power to do it. This workshop examines the characteristics of effective teams and strategies for enhancing team cohesion and performance, with a focus on understanding and implementing change well. Most change initiatives fail because they do not take in to account human factors. The workshop then explores the concepts of shared values and behaviours and techniques for empowering team members to call out behaviour and self-regulate, concluding with personal agency and accountability concepts.
Empowered teams become self-sufficient groups of people working together with specific shared goals. They have the corporate authority, experience, responsibility and skills to enact their own decisions for the organisation.
Topics Covered in this workshop
- Effective team attributes
- Change, change mindsets and resistance points
- Radical resilience for individuals and teams
- Shared values, behaviours and team charters
- Personal agency
Next Workshop
Thursday 10th June 2021, 9.00am to 1.00pm
The Lion Hotel, 161 Melbourne St, North Adelaide
All workbooks, materials, continuous tea/coffee and morning tea included
Facilitator: Samantha Young
Samantha brings a unique combination of senior management and commercial experience, psychological intervention skills and Masters-level formal education in both business and psychology to her clinical, training, coaching and consulting work. She has led large teams, advised CEOs and Boards on strategic issues and routinely provides consulting advice to private and public sector organisations on complex human resource matters, learning and development and leadership coaching and assessment.
Samantha has worked as a Consultant with Boston Consulting Group, Sales & Marketing Manager for The Body Shop and Strategy Manager for Myer GraceBros. Samantha holds Bachelor and Postgraduate qualifications in business and psychology, including a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and an MBA from Melbourne University.
Samantha is passionate about helping people to think, feel and perform better at individual, team and organisational levels. She is Managing Director of Human Psychology, one of Adelaide’s largest psychological services providers with a team of 17 people operating for over 10 years. Human Psychology’s mission is to help organisations and their people to embrace 21st century change by enhancing their self-awareness, building stronger and more cohesive relationships, increasing engagement, developing resilience and most importantly, caring for themselves and others.
Other Workshops in the Spirit Series
Inspire – Thursday 15th April 2021
Inspire is the foundation module for the Spirit program. It enables leaders to explore their role in defining culture, meaning and purpose, both as individuals and at a corporate level. In a world defined by accelerating, ceaseless change how we as leaders connect, communicate and inspire those we serve in our organisations will matter more than how work is done.
Engage – Thursday 29th April 2021
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Influence – Thursday 13th May 2021
To influence is to affect the nature, development or condition of something. Leadership is fundamentally about influence and service. The brain only validates what the heart believes, so leaders need to start with gaining access to hearts. As a leader, would you rather be lovable or strong? Can you be both? In the end, leadership is literally personal.
Perform – Thursday 27th May 2021
Job performance is the assessment of whether an employee has done their job well. Workplace performance is the product of a complex interaction of a number of variables including leadership behaviours like coaching, feedback, performance development, conflict resolution skills and job design and resourcing. High organisational performance is when all the parts of an organisation work together to achieve great results with results being measured in terms of the value we deliver.
Embolden – Thursday 24th June 2021
The final workshop in the Spirit series urges leaders to be courageous, to plan and conduct conversations with their staff about challenging topics like mental health, workplace performance and inappropriate behaviours. It provides a framework and tool-kit for meeting duty-of-care obligations, as well as the confidence and conviction to engage more with people at work.