MBA Alumni Lifelong Learning Program

MONASH MBA ALUMNI LIFELONG LEARNING DAY

CLEAR LEADERSHIP ESSENTIALS: STRENGTHENING YOUR PARTNERSHIPS SATURDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2022

MONASH BUSINESS SCHOOL

Lifelong Learning Day

Clear Leadership Essentials: Strengthening Your Partnerships Effective leadership and professional performance increasingly require us to have constructive relationships with those people we need to be in partnership with. While our partnerships and key working relationships often start out well, they can sometimes falter especially when we are under pressure, when circumstances change and when conditions become challenging.

Often, when issues in our partnerships arise, we need to have a difficult or challenging conversation. As professionals, leaders and managers we know that difficult conversations are tricky, and they sometimes have an adverse impact on our relationships when they don’t go well.

Organisations, teams and work groups in which people have trouble speaking clearly and effectively about their perspectives and experiences of each other are often characterised by what might be termed ‘interpersonal mush’. Confusion, misunderstandings, a lack of trust, a failure to follow through as expected and the repetition of problem patterns are common manifestations of this ‘mush’.

Have you ever been in a meeting or discussion where you feel that the real issues are not being discussed? Have you ever felt that you’d like to say something about your perspective on an issue, but don’t feel that you can because it will be taken the wrong way? Have you ever felt that it might not be safe to express your views for fear of being judged, corrected or criticised?

If so then chances are you are in the ‘mush’.

Clear Leadership Essentials introduces the principles and practices of clear leadership.

Clear Leadership provides an evidencebased framework and approach for helping leaders establish and sustain effective working partnerships by clearing away the interpersonal mush and replacing it with interpersonal clarity.

Equipped with the foundational skills for Clear Leadership you will be able to lead learning conversations with those that you need to be in partnership with. Clear leadership can help you effectively and directly address problem patterns in relationships, identify what’s really going on when partnerships become problematic, and better understand the impact of your leadership practice and actions on those around you.

In the program we will develop practical skills to help you: B e more aware of your in-the-moment experience U se clear language and be descriptive with others in ways that strengthen your relationships B e more curious and become a more effective listener R ecognise and be able to exercise more control over your reactivity in those ‘hot’ moments L ead and guide constructive organisational learning conversations to support partnership and genuine collaboration.

Clear Leadership provides an evidence-based framework and approach for helping leaders establish and sustain effective working partnerships by clearing away the interpersonal mush and replacing it with interpersonal clarity.

What to Expect

Program Overview

Great opportunity to learn about Clear Leadership Essentials: strengthening your partnerships.

Discover more about what Monash Business School can offer.

10:00am - 10:30am Registration (Morning tea upon arrival) Session 1 Partnership and the nature of our experience Session 2 Clear language and being fully descriptive

Develop your network by meeting and working with other like-minded people.

Session 3 Listening and being curious

Great opportunity to engage with Monash MBA Alumni.

Session 4 Learning conversations for stronger partnerships 5.00pm Close of day

PREPARATORY MATERIAL Gervase R. Bushe - How to practise clear leadership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzttEvFUmE&t=488s Bushe, G. (2010) Clear Leadership.

Boston, MA: Davies-Black. Chapters 1-3.

The first three chapters of this book can be downloaded free. https://clearleadership.com/the-book/

5:30pm - 8:00pm Sit-down dinner and networking

Host

Register Today WHAT TO BRING

Laptop, Notebook, or iPad DRESS CODE

Smart Casual CATERING

Professor Richard Hall Meet the Deputy Dean of Leadership and Executive Education at Monash Business School. In this role, Richard provides strategic direction for our MBA programs, executive education courses and leadership programs. He’s also on the front foot when it comes to engaging with our business and other partners.

Before joining Monash, Richard was the Professor of Work and Organisational Studies, and Associate Dean for Executive Management Education at the University of Sydney.

Over the years, Richard has built a broad area of expertise across leadership, new technology, organisational change, future working models, organisational discourse and industrial relations.

He’s the lead co-editor of Leadership Development and Practice – a fourvolume reference work recently published by Sage, London.

Having worked in a number of organisations around the world, Richard has developed strong networks that extend across the corporate and government sectors.

The Monash MBA Alumni Engagement Program is available to all Monash MBA Alumni.

To participate, please contact: Monash Business School MBA Programs Office Telephone: +61 (3) 9903 4355 Email: mbus-mba-alumni@monash.edu monash.edu/business/mba

Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided as part of the day. This will be followed by a sit-down dinner and networking. Please advise of any dietary requirements when completing the registration.

LOCATION – LIFELONG LEARNING DAY

Level 8, Pavilion, Building H, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East 3182 LOCATION – SITDOWN DINNER

Building H, Room H1.16, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East 3182 COST

$90 Benefits Attending the Monash MBA Alumni Lifelong Learning Day will provide the opportunity for MBA Alumni to: B roaden your professional development skills to include c lear leadership essentials Build upon your professional network with fellow Monash MBA Alumni Receive 20% off the Executive Education Program should you want to learn more about Clear Leadership.

Registrations Close Monday 14 November, 2022 at 5pm