Session Topics
| Topic 1: Self-Awareness and Leadership Style |
| Wednesday 10 March - 4:00pm - 6:00pm AEDT |
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This webinar will provide contemporary insights on leadership styles so you can master the art of leading yourself and improve your effectiveness when you lead others. You will hear from experts, reflect on your own experiences and share your thoughts with other participants. The webinar starts with a focus on self-awareness – you need to be able to lead yourself before you can leader others effectively. You will learn how the process of identifying your personal idiosyncrasies and develop a deeper understanding of the characteristics that inform your leadership style. This is a critical step to improve your effectiveness and influence as a leader. We will explore a range of leadership styles and hear from experts in the areas of authentic and empowering leadership. Through this process you will improve your understanding on how helping people find their purpose delivers superior results compared to forcing subordinates to be loyal followers. Curated content from leadership experts such as Bev James, Bill George, Lars Sudmann, John Kotter and Ken Blanchard, will challenge your views on what makes a great leader. |
| Topic 2: Creating the Right Team Culture |
| Wednesday 24 March 2021 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm AEDT |
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This webinar will show you the steps involved in how to create the right team culture and adapt your leadership style accordingly. It will also introduce the importance of linking your team goals to organisational objectives as crucial elements of helping you lead people effectively. The key to becoming an effective team leader is to develop a team culture of professionalism, trust, respect and support within your team. In order to do that, you’ll need to develop a better understanding of how you can adapt your leadership styles so that you can meet the changing needs of your team and lift team performance. In addition, you’ll learn how to improve team performance by creating a “one team” culture through unifying core values and behaviours regardless of geographic, demographic or hierarchical differences. The importance of striving and thriving teams will be emphasised to help you become better at engaging with your people. In addition, the impact of a leader’s clear focus on achieving team objectives will be emphasised. Finally, you’ll see the steps leaders take to support and develop better understanding of their organisation’s direction. |
| Topic 3: Linking Management Style with your Personal Development Plan |
| Wednesday 7 April - 4:00pm - 6:00pm AEST |
| This webinar will delve into the relationship between your management style and your impact on others. Mastering the art of managing yourself will improve your effectiveness as a manager. The first step to managing yourself better is to understand your own management style and the choices you have to modify that style. Once you’ve decided what changes you want to make to your management style, you’ll need a plan on how to do that. To that end, the purpose of a personal development plan is highlighted and the process to construct one for yourself is introduced. We will explore a range of issues such as how control and power affect the development of good working relationships, the importance of trust in the workplace and tips on delegation. A variety of management styles will be introduced along with easy to apply frameworks to develop your particular management style and enhance your decision making. Work by influential authors such as Douglas McGregor, Victor Vroon and Ken Blanchard are featured. Finally, the development cycle for how we learn will be shown and you’ll have the opportunity to craft your own personal development plan. |
| Topic 4: Motivating Your Team |
| Wednesday 21 April - 4:00pm - 6:00pm AEST |
| This webinar will focus on the role of a manager in motivating their team. After all, being a manager means achieving objectives, goals and targets THROUGH and WITH people you simply can’t accomplish what needs to be done on your own. Becoming a more effective manager relies on motivating and managing your team better. The webinar starts with a focus on developing a better understanding of team behaviour. By understanding the needs of individuals in your team, you’ll be in a better position to understand their expectations as employees and the types of rewards that will motivate them. The manager’s role in creating the right environment for team motivation will be introduced including the degree to which employees are involved in decisions and how well the team feels their manager understands them. You’ll be introduced to the concepts of empowerment and the role of self-efficacy beliefs in motivating your team. The importance of employee welfare and rewards will also be highlighted. We’ll then take a brief look at the issues of equality and diversity and how they’re becoming increasingly important factors for effective team management. |
| Topic 5 - Leading Your Organisastion in the 21st Century |
| Wednesday 5 May - 4:00pm - 6:00pm AEST |
| This webinar will explore the challenges faced by leaders in leading their organisations in the 21st Century. You’ll learn the importance of being able to articulate your organisation’s purpose and values like other successful business leaders. We’ll explore how having a better understanding of the external environmental issues that affect your organisation and your clients will help you become more confident in being able to adapt your leadership style appropriately. You’ll learn about the importance of organisation culture and values and how you in your role have a critical part to play in inculcating the right organisation culture and upholding your organisation’s core values. We’ll discuss how contemporary 21st Century leaders need to be aware of and responsive to current and emerging social concerns and expectations including technology, socio-economic factors, consumer trends and of course the recent pandemic. Finally, we’ll look at how a range of legal, regulatory and ethical requirements affect your organisation and the accounting industry. Leadership experts such as Simon Sinek and Dominic Barton, the former Global Head of McKinsey, will challenge your views on leading your organisation in the 21st Century. |
| Topic 6 - Managing Stakeholders, Data and Information |
| Wednesday 19 May - 4:00pm 6:00pm AEST |
| This webinar will examine the crucial role that data and information play in determining and satisfying stakeholders needs. Businesses have a range of stakeholders and their needs are constantly evolving, particularly given the significant external environmental changes affecting organisations generally as well as the accounting industry specifically. Accountants already have a keen eye for data and information, particularly where it relates to financial and legal requirements so we’ll focus on how you can extend that skill to other sources of quantitative and qualitative data and information that are relevant to your stakeholders. We’ll also explore the process of setting non-financial objectives and measuring progress against those objectives in order to improve your effectiveness as a manager. You’ll learn how to collect data on stakeholder needs and how to apply that information towards developing a stakeholder plan. Curated content from experts such as Michael Porter from Harvard and John Pepper, the former CEO Proctor & Gamble and Chairman of Walt Disney will introduce the importance of data, information and relationships. |