Seminar Description
Empower Engineering and Geoscientists’ leaders and supervisors to have the online leadership presence needed to effectively lead their team(s) in a virtual environment.
The seminar incorporates leading processes and practices for being an effective leader online. Participants will gain powerful skills in communicating their leadership in a virtual setting, addressing business issues, needs for collaboration, setting expectations, and leading teamwork all in a virtual setting.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this seminar, other than participants’ need to be a supervisor or manager of people in their respective organizations.
Seminar Outline
The seminar delivers five powerful leadership skills and processes for participants to learn and practice, using real situations that exist back in their workplace.
The first two hours focuses on learning and practicing three “communicating leadership” processes for a virtual setting, along with the model for communicating authentic leadership.
The third hour focuses on skills for enhancing the participants’ leadership presence in an online world. Skills, tactics, and activities are introduced to assist the participant build their leader presence over Zoom, WebEx, Google hangouts, and other online communication platforms.
The seminar concludes with a practice round where the participants use all the skills presented to building their leader presence in a virtual setting. This practice activity can have a profound impact on the participants’ leadership back at their workplace.
Unique Features of the Course
More than 50% of the seminar is experiential learning, i.e. the participants are practicing the skills they are learning. This is important for supporting the participants’ engagement during the seminar, and provides both a sense of self-sufficiency and optimism in using the skills back at their virtual workplace.
Three core skills introduced offer the opportunity for participants to immediately present a more powerful leader presence online.
The ‘communicating leadership’ process introduced provides leaders with a framework for more effectively leading a team in a virtual setting. This is of significant value, given more team work is likely to be conducted from a virtual setting. Clients of INSPIRE are already experiencing tremendous benefits incorporating these processes into their virtual team meetings.
Target Audience
Engineers and geoscientists who have direct reports (i.e. supervisors, managers, and directors/vice-presidents) and are wanting to boost their leadership presence in a virtual environment. The participants’ tenure as a supervisor or manager does not matter.
