Leadership Development

The challenges that they face are often:

• aligning people and talent to take the organisation forward
• developing leadership capacity in the organisation
• defining the new culture required and finding the ways to bring it to reality
• building systems and processes that focus the organisation and assist people do their job well
• taking themselves and their team to the next level

At Agile Mind we work with leaders and leadership teams who are committed to transform their organisations and people with quality support and training sustained over time.  Not one off events.

Strategic Planning: Aligning Vision, Values and Action

• Develop a clear understanding of the planning process - steps to success
• Assess where you are now, i.e. data analysis
• Develop skills in identifying barriers to success and how to reduce these barriers
• Work on creating your "Preferred Scenario" using different tools
• Work with you within the planning process to see how this could be achieved
• Effective decision making
• Encouraging creative and quality thinking
• Create buy-in
• Create sustainable systems and processes

Executive and Middle Management Development

• Leadership Styles
• Personality and Leadership
• Developing a performance culture
• Work Team Development and Coaching
• Effective Decision Making
• The Educators Toolkit for Negotiation, Influencing and Coaching
• Personal Mastery: Beyond Time and Task Management

Effective Change and Implementing Cultural Change

• Apply a variety of change models in different situations
• Assess the current culture and define the desired culture
• Identify key drivers, data and research for change
• Develop effective strategies to reduce barriers to change.
• Use Senge's laws of systems and systems approaches
• Develop interventions for particular situations
• Use project management skills
• Learn how and when to use creative types of team decision making
• Develop and structure an effective leadership team.

Individualised Executive Coaching

• Assisting people in motivation, priorities, focus, goals.
• Identifying "blind spots".
• Assisting in career management.
• Developing talent and leadership capacity in individuals.
• Supporting individuals as members of a team.
• Developing skills in self evaluation.

Testimonials

This was an outstanding seminar for school executive to attend. The skills, knowledge and understandings developed by participants are invaluable and will assist leaders in the school to be more effective, efficient and better focused.

Head Teacher Kellyville High School

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Highly beneficial. Important tools that should be taught to all teachers/leaders/managers. Opened up a whole new understanding of how to work with and deal with people in difficult situations. Highly valuable.

DP Kingsgrove North High School

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...fabulous - useful, relevant and informative...really valuable and necessary...practical and wanting to learn more! Put what I have learnt into practice..

Teachers from Santa Sabina College

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This was a WOW presentation which engaged a board group of individuals and provided them with an insight into their own value and worth as part of this organisation

Head Teacher Bradfield College

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It was interesting, helpful in dealing with conflict, great unpacking of types of conflict and the varied ways one can deal with it. Great to have a "tool kit"!

Teacher
Ravenswood College