In Brief
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DownloadWhy choose this programme?
The Leadership Development Programme for ICT Professionals in the Southern Region will develop participants’ mindset to become true leaders in a tech space.
By advancing their leadership style, fusing it to an ability to manage strategic agendas with the best talent, participants will be able to lead their organisation into the future.
Self Awareness
Develop clear and deep self-awareness and navigate according to an ethical and values-driven compass.
Inspire and Influence
Build a vision for your organisation and create a narrative that inspires others to follow.
Strategic Insight
Translate strategy into action with clear and strategically aligned decision making around technology, people, innovation and change.
Participants can look forward to:
Facilitated workshops
Facilitated by experts, a series of workshops will be used to explore key themes and questions, and how they can be applied to your context.
Business Mentoring
Business mentoring will be provided on an individual basis with a Programme Director. This will allow participants to experience a more personalised element of the programme in order to enhance their leadership potential.
Mini Masterclasses
The programme will include a number of Mini-Masterclasses from an expert panel experienced in a broad cohort of leadership topics.
In-company ‘Experimentation’
Actively test out models, skills and behaviours from the workshops and fine-tune them for continued practice. The experiments are self-managed and can be individual or group based.
Key takeaways
Leadership
Position and understand your role as leader in the broader context of business value.
Take ownership with confidence of your leadership responsibilities and create followership among your team and reports.
Strategic Thinking
Translate strategy into meaningful action and movement through clear and strategically aligned decision making around technology, people, innovation and change.
Learn how to balance operational thinking and action with strategic decision making.
Talent and Networks
Identify vital talent and capabilities, and plan how to attract, develop and retain these in the competitive environment of technology.
Build networks across the organisation, the ecosystem of technology and wider industry.
Programmes themes
An exploration of what leadership means in this environment with insights on current best practice, research and discussion on common challenges faced by the cohort and how these can be addressed in the post-pandemic working environment.
Amid continued uncertainty, leaders with purpose will be the catalysts within their organisation for driving lasting change. This module will also include discussion around the ‘point of change’, and how leaders can successfully navigate through this point to become both a tech visionary and a business leader.
A. Focus on ‘you’
• Concentrating on your ability to create a strong executive presence, become adept
at strategic decision making and learn how
to truly master a performance mindset.
• Building Trust, empathy & skills-based leadership to support leading cohesive and impactful teams.
• By understanding how to influence and impact stakeholders, you will be able to lead your organisation with vision and purpose.
B. Focus on ‘your team and org’
An exploration of emerging insights on the future of work and leadership and motivation at work, drawing on organisational development behavioural science and neuroscience. A focus on leading teams with a hybrid lens, exploring intentional approaches to ensure fairness, maximise performance and maintain cultural cohesion in hybrid work arrangements. A discussion on role-modelling, building followership, effective team leadership, and talent and performance management in a technology environment.
Maximising your strategy
• Understanding the different elements within
your working environment which feed
into translation of vision into strategy and
direction. Building a culture that understands
the vision and goals of the organisation
and ensuring alignment between all
business units with all barriers removed.
• Understand the drivers of successful
change and strategies to thrive in a
VUCA working environment
• Being able to influence and persuade your stakeholders to garner your success as a leader.
• Building capacity to navigate ambiguity and
build their trust in you.
• Effective understanding of your stakeholders, appreciating their triggers and expectations
• Simulation Exercise to test your learning in an experiential environment.
Programme Partners
Leadership Development Programme for ICT Professionals in the Southern Region has been developed in association with it@Cork and it@Cork Skillnet to address challenges specific to the tech industry and in response to the Project Ireland 2040 for the Southern Region report.
