Academic Leadership in Teaching and Learning

What capabilities and qualities are required for leadership? This interactive course will challenge your concept of what leadership is, and explore how you can manage yourself better in difficult/challenging situations.

• This program will enable you to:
  • identify your current leadership strengths
  • develop a more systematic, purposeful and mindful approach to developing your leadership skills and qualities.
• The modules focus on:
  • your skills in self-leadership – fundamental for handling yourself well in challenging situations and for staying aligned to your values and purpose
  • how to influence others in the service of collective goals – and particularly skills for successfully navigating challenging conversations.

Session times

Each module will be run twice a week:

• Tue 12:00-2:00pm with Geoff Mortimore
• Wed 2:00-4:00pm with Linda Hort

Please indicate on the registration form, which modules you would like to attend.

Modules

• AL1 – Models and Theories of Leadership (29 and 30 Sep, 2020)
  • The functions and purposes of leadership, outlining alternative models of leadership.
• AL2 – A Mindful Approach to Leadership Development (6 and 7 Oct, 2020)
  • Discussions focus on the leader as learner, and how to incorporate a mindful approach to leadership development.
• AL3 – Putting First Things First in Leadership and Life (13 and 14 Oct, 2020)
  • Understand how and why we sometimes act out of alignment with our values, goals and plans.
• AL4 – Managing Your Mindset and Emotions (20 and 21 Oct, 2020)
  • Reviews your habitual ways of managing, coaching and leading yourself and which self-management practices undermine performance.
• AL5 – Understanding the People You Wish to Influence (27 and 28 Oct, 2020)
  • Examines the assumptions we make about people and ‘what makes them tick’, which shapes our understanding of others.
• AL6 – Preparing for a Difficult Conversation (3 and 4 Nov, 2020)
  • Explores how restrictive mindsets and self-coaching undermine our capacity for being at our best in challenging situations, which may trigger habitual default responses.
• AL7 – Persuading People to Change (10 and 11 Nov, 2020)
  • Looks at ways of influencing people through constructive feedback, and by connecting with and evoking feelings – winning hearts as well as minds.
• AL8 – Responding Constructively to Resistance and Conflict (17 and 18 Nov, 2020)
  • Becoming a conflict competent leader by understanding the reasons for avoidance, resistance or defensiveness.

Who can register? 

We welcome all ANU staff as participants.

Academic staff with leadership roles (or aspirations to such roles) will be given priority, but professional staff in educationally-focused areas, and sessional teaching academics may also register and will be offered places if available.

Confirmation of registration

Please note all dates in your calendar. At least one week before the modules are scheduled, you will receive a confirmation email, or be advised of waitlisting.