Collaborative forum description
‘T’ shaped leaders have two distinct characteristics, a depth of skill that allows them to contribute to the creative process and a disposition towards collaboration.
Effective collaboration has two essential elements.
First, empathy which is important because it allows people to imagine a problem from different perspectives. Second, enthusiasm, which is focused on providing innovative solutions when confronted with ambiguous and complex problems.
Developing T shaped characteristics can enable an organisation to move away from a reliance on narrow, hierarchical, decision making processes to a wider, better informed and often accelerated collaborative approach which fully exploits the talents, knowledge and skills available within the oganisation, to deliver better solutions.
Collaborative forum outcomes
- The importance of humility and professional will in leaders
- How to move from conflict to disciplined collaboration
- Moving from leadership myths to reality-what really works
- Understanding how empathy underpins influencing others
Content and learning styles
The forum will combine academic and industry examples with unique insights and thought-provoking presentations to stimulate in-depth discussions. Peer learning is a big part of the forum and you will be given every opportunity to share ideas and learn not only from the speaker but also from others in the group.
The forum will cover the following topics:
- A collaborative practical group exercise to validate the taught input
