Programme

Day One

Introduction

• To the course staff, fellow delegates and to the programme.

Listening Skills

• Plenary on listening, review of common listening habits,
• listening exercise:” What is Leadership?”

Teams and Team Working

• Team membership, team building and team characteristics.

Team Activity: Team Characteristics

Team Roles and Team Dynamics

• Self-assessment of team roles and key aspects of team dynamics

Approaches to Leadership

• The qualities approach, the situational approach,
• the functional approach, other leadership approaches.

Leadership Exercise: Delay

Needs and Responsibilities

• Introduction to areas of need, the three circles and leadership responsibility.

Leadership Profiles

Leadership Functions

• The generic functions of a leader and the principle of helicoptering.

What should Research Team Leaders do? 

• Personal reflections on leadership functions in a research group context.

Leadership Exercise: Letterpoint

Day Two

Introduction

Input: Running Effective Meetings

• Listening, go-arounds, questions as agenda Items, using thinking pairs, SMART actions.

Group Meeting: Conflicting Demands of Research, Teaching & Administration

• Parallel meetings, chaired by delegates, follow specific structure outlined above. “What are the potential conflicts?”; “How might these conflicts be resolved?”

Research Team Leadership Case Study

• Consultation Phase
• Reporting Phase
• Debrief

Leadership Exercise: Screws and Nails

Personal Vision and Action Planning Meeting 

• Reflect on pre-work, think about a possible personal vision.

Individual Consultations

• Each delegate has the opportunity to spend ~10 minutes one-on-one with a member of the training team to discuss their leadership profile or another specific leadership issue.

Round-up