Clear Leadership | Monash Corporate Education Short course

CLEAR LEADERSHIP

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Exceptional leaders build cultures of clarity

With greater awareness of your influence, you can become a more effective leader. This program will challenge you to confront the obstacles that get in the way of interpersonal and organisational clarity.

We’ll help you embed the positive behaviours and practical skills you need to support true collaboration and partnerships at work.

No other leadership course offers such a large step in vertical development, in such a short period of time.

What to expect

This four-day program combines research, tested theory and a unique experiential method that challenges you to go beyond your comfort zone and learn to interact in entirely new ways.

Alongside your live experience sessions, you’ll engage in a mix of content delivery, peer learning, hands-on activities and guided reflection. Each session builds on the next as you develop the skills to lead conservations that drive collaboration in the workplace. The

This program will transform your leadership potential, emotional intelligence, self-reflection and communication skills. You’ll gain a greater understanding of the underlying social and psychological processes that could be holding you and your team back, and the choices you have to make to sustain real partnerships for success.

By the end of the program, you’ll have the skills to:

• Create strong partnerships with the people you lead

• Enhance all aspects of team and organisational leadership

• Create an inclusive environment where everyone can learn from each other

• Handle difficult conversations with ease

• Turn conflicts in positive learning experiences

• Bring out your team’s full engagement and commitment to their purpose.

This program is ideal for experienced executives, directors, managers and those in senior change or consulting roles, looking to build strong leadership skills and the collaborative relationships to get work done. Designed

Aviva Berzon Program Faciliator

Aviva is a leadership consultant with a passion for developing inclusive and safe workplaces. She specialises in organisational dynamics, influential communication, change, and leadership development.

Aviva works at both individual and systemic levels to support change. Her unique approach blends both individual and group-based strategies to achieve lasting shifts in mindset and behaviour.

Aviva has worked with a diverse range of clients, including Victoria Legal Aid, NOVA Entertainment, Adairs, Ngai Tahu New Zealand, and RACV. She has also worked with corporate giants such as Telstra, BHP, and NAB.

With her real-world management and leadership experience, Aviva delivers practical and relevant solutions that respond to her clients' unique context and needs.

She builds deep relationships and warm connections with her clients, bringing energy and a collaborative spirit to each engagement. An engaging facilitator, Aviva is dedicated to helping her clients create inclusive, energised, and psychologically safe workplaces.

Your learning journey

Face-to-face

In this format, the program material is delivered over four immersive days of learning at Monash Business School.

You’ll take part in interactive sessions, working with others on issues pertinent to your leadership challenges – and be encouraged to reflect on your journey, thinking about ways to embed your learning into your experiences.

Over the course of this program, you’ll dive deep into four key areas of Clear Leadership: The Aware Self, The Descriptive Self, The Appreciative and Curious Selves, and Conflict and Learning in Partnerships.

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The Aware Self The Descriptive Self

We’ll begin the program by understanding and exploring your challenge space, which you’ll choose as part of your pre-work. We’ll also be unpacking the concepts of service design and systems thinking that will help give you a more holistic view of how to deliver value to customers.

We’ll cover:

• The nature of sense-making and experience

• The effects of sense-making in organisations

• How experience is the sum of observing, thinking, feeling and wanting

• The positive effects of clear language, and negative effects of mystifying language

• The impact of talking to others in the “here and now” versus the “there and then”.

You’ll learn how to:

• Distinguish between observing, thinking, feeling and wanting

• Distinguish between clear and mystifying language

• Distinguish between “here and now” and “there and then”.

This week our goal is to provide you the skills to make your experience and sense-making clear to others –in a way that’s not threatening to others and enhances your relationships.

We’ll cover:

• Transparent versus personal

• Descriptive versus judgmental

• Making statements before asking questions

• A technique of describing the impact before responding

• Part one of organisational learning conversations.

You’ll learn how to:

• Distinguish between being transparent and being personal

• Describe your experience in transparent ways

• Distinguish between being descriptive and being judgmental

• Describe your judgements in ways that clarify your experience – and reduce defensiveness

• Describe the impact before your respond.

The Appreciative and Curious Selves Conflict and Learning in Partnerships

This week is all about getting others on board. Our goal is to provide you with the skills to inspire people to be descriptive – to fully understand their experience and avoid the kinds of reactions that stop them from telling you their truth.

We’ll cover:

• Three levels of listening

• Issues around reactivity

• The role of shame in reducing interpersonal clarity

• Confusing the past with the present

• Getting others to be descriptive

• Part two of organisational learning conversations.

You’ll learn how to:

• Listen at three levels

• Identify where your reactivity comes from – and where to park it

• Identify when shame is reducing interpersonal clarity

• Distinguish between the past and present

• Confront others in a way that gets them to be descriptive.

This week is about cementing your understanding of – and ability to – lead organisational learning conversations. We’ll also show you how to use these skills to reduce unproductive conflict in your partnerships out in the workplace.

We’ll cover:

• The entire organisational learning conversation process

• Reducing conflict and mush in organisations

• Going further with your appreciative self

• Having purpose conversations with your partners.

You’ll learn how to:

• Use the organisational learning conversation process

• Reduce conflict and mush in your organisation

• Have a successful purpose conversation with your partners

• Identify what’s really important with your partners.

The Details

Details

2024 program dates

2024 course dates

This program will be delivered at Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins St, Melbourne across 4 Fridays:

This course will be delivered at Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins St, Melbourne across 4 days:

Friday 17 May

Monday 9 September

Friday 24 May

Wednesday 18 September

Friday 31 May

Monday 23 September

Friday 7 June

Monday 30 September

Fee

$4,500 AUD incl. GST

Digital badging

Upon successful completion of this program, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.

Upon successful completion of this program, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.

Microcredential – equivalent to 2 credit points

Successful completion of this program is the equivalent of 2 credit points, or one-third of the way to a microcredential.

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