The Foundations of Transformational

IT Leadership: Make Your Breakthrough

Unleash your inner leader:

Master the core principles of transformational leadership for IT executives.

From good to great, turbo-charge your leadership capability and become the transformational IT leader your organisation needs.

Course Description

This one-day intensive is the foundation workshop for the 7-Module Masterclass that will ignite your IT executive leadership capability breakthrough. Master the core principles of transformational leadership and benchmark your current leadership skills to plan your leadership growth path. Understand the neuropsychology of leadership and learn how to develop resilience and be the adaptive leader needed to navigate challenges, lead with vision and purpose, build trust and credibility, and make sound decisions in a volatile and rapidly changing IT landscape.

Key Learning Areas

The core principles of transformational leadership: Discover, discuss, distil and embrace the core competencies and skills that underpin transformational leadership. Emotional intelligence and self-awareness, communication with influence, vision, agility, resilience, and above all – courage, humility and absolute clarity of purpose.
Benchmarking Your Leadership Skills and Capability: Discover the essential disciplines of a transformational leader. Explore an empirical body of leadership evidence and practice to benchmark your current strengths and capabilities and expose your areas for growth to make your leadership breakthrough.
The neuropsychology of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Self-Awareness: Identify your authentic self and understand others - a vital skill to better connect and communicate as a leader. Understand the links between self-awareness, emotional intelligence, decision-making and leadership success, and use this to ignite your IT leadership presence and influence.

Resilience and adaptive leadership. Confront the challenges of leadership and decision-making in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times: Change – Crisis – Attack - Obstacles – Failure - do you choose to take it on? Cultivate resilience and adaptability to navigate these challenges, respond appropriately, and embrace change as a leader in the IT domain.
Leading with Vision and Purpose: Differentiate your values and philosophy to stand out as a technology leader. Craft and articulate a compelling vision for your IT organisation to drive business success.
Building Trust and Credibility to Empower and Motivate Teams: Empower team members with a sense of ownership with effective delegation and partnering techniques; foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance – within your IT team and across the business.
Leadership Decision-Making and Problem-Solving: Apply your leadership philosophy as a filter for decisions, ensuring they align with your core values and long-term goals. Use trusted proven frameworks for making sound decisions and solving complex problems in a rapidly changing IT landscape.

What will you choose to stop doing today that inhibits your leadership momentum; what will you choose to start doing today to ignite your leadership journey?

Do the hardest thing of all: choose to be a leader; craft and deliver your leadership affirmation.