Examples of Themes for Managers and Leaders in Health and Community Services
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Establishing myself in the
management role
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Moving from practitioner to manager: skills transfer and new challenges
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Reviewing management theories and approaches – are they fit for the 21st century?
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Emotionally intelligent leadership
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Managing up – challenges and strategies
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Management and leadership capabilities – self assessment and development planning
Effective professional and clinical supervision
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Reviewing the agency’s approach to professional and clinical supervision
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Strengthening the fundamentals
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Reflective practice – taking it further
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Adapting the supervision approach for staff at different stages of their professional development
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Supportive aspects of supervision – individual and organisational perspectives
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Facilitating group supervision
Leadership of teams
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Leadership style: establishing a co-design, solution finding culture
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Leadership strategies at different stages of team development
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Developing a team development plan
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Strategies for strengthening team communication
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Developing people’s leadership contributions in the team - Belbin matrix
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Building a conflict resilient organisation
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Decision making: flexing from directive to consultative to facilitative styles
Developing a program logic & theory of change
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Analysing client needs and identifying outcomes
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Mapping client journeys
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Using appreciative enquiry
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Outlining a theory of change
Facilitating transformative learning
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Blocks to learning from experience: an individual focus
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Blocks to learning from experience: an organisational focus
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Stages of transformative learning
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Strategies for each stage
Building a healthier environment for myself, the team and the organisation
Characteristics of a healthy working environment
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Preventing burn out: a systems perspective to staff wellbeing
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Mapping the flow paths of pressure – what is our “anxiety management system”?
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Ways different staff members respond to expectations and pressures
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Towards emotionally competent organisations
Navigating power dynamics
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Styles of influence
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Day to day experiences of power dynamics – What can you do if…?
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Considering the background conversations
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‘Games supervisors play’
Managing change
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Planned change + emergent change
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Assisting the team to face adaptive challenges
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Transformational leadership
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Strategies for managing a significant change
Our role as thought leaders and system leaders
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A champion of evidence and new ideas, a leader of co-creation of integrated knowledge, and a facilitator of transformative learning
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Leading inter-professional communication - strategies
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Collaboration between non-government and government agencies
Narratives of self, narratives of organisation - a personal review
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Considering the background conversations – what do they show about the organisation’s narrative?
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Considering emotional strengths and emotional signatures
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Authentic leadership – is it possible?
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A lifespan approach to management – and a review of my own leadership and management journey
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Work/ family/ community/ life – a ‘juggle’, a ‘rich tapestry’?
Service
re-design and service development
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Developing a congruent client centred and human rights-based culture
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Holistic, cross team collaboration strategies
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Culture of the organisation – building on the potentials and addressing constraints
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“COVID brought the best out of our managers and staff” – let’s take it further
More effective collaborations and partnerships - strategies and resources
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Establishing and managing partnerships and collaborative efforts
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Tools and resources for effective partnership work
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Constructively addressing partnership challenges
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Fostering an internal collaborative mindset and organisational/team culture
Leadership for adaptive challenges
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An adaptive leadership approach to organisational and sector changes and transformation
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Adaptive leadership strategies and capabilities for change and innovation
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Building a culture of positive adaptability and resilience
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Adaptive leadership self-assessment and development plan
Managing a project
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Effective project design
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Steps in managing a project
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Key project management and implementation tools
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Working effectively with a project team
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Sustaining the work at the end of the project
Effective community engagement and consultation
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Planning community and stakeholder engagement and consultation
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Techniques and tools for effective engagement and consultation
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Reaching sections of the community we find difficult to reach or engage - inclusive engagement and consultation
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Codesign and community participation
Changing organisational culture
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Mapping organisational and team culture
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Creating a person and community centred, rights-based culture that supports staff well being
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Building on organisational and team strengths
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Pillars of organisational and team culture change
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Strategies for creating a positive organisational and team culture
Facilitation skills for change and innovation
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Planning a facilitated event or process such as strategic planning, review session, innovation workshop
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Facilitation strategies and skills for effective dialogue
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Responding to challenges such as factions, lack of participation
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Tools and techniques to facilitate positive participation, creative thinking, actionable decision making
Leading human centred design thinking: strategies & tools