Dare to Lead | Monash Corporate Education short course

DARE TO LEAD

MONASH BUSINESS SCHOOL

monash.edu/business/corporate-education

MONASH CORPORATE EDUCATION

Building brave leaders and courageous cultures

How do we develop braver, more daring leaders? How do we embed courage into our organisation’s culture, while navigating change and driving performance?

Based on the research of Dr Brené Brown, Dare to Lead™ is an empiricallybased courage-building course for leaders and change agents.

Dr Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy, and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers, including Dare to Lead, which also debuted at #1 on The Wall Street Journal and Publisher’s Weekly lists.

What to expect

Through this outstanding three-day workshop, you’ll learn the skills of brave leadership, allowing you to:

Key takeaways include:

• drive high-functioning teams

• get comfortable in discomfort

• inspire daring leadership and courageous conversations

• build trust in teams and yourself to create high engagement

• create self-awareness and a common language to re-humanise workplace culture

• cultivate a feedback culture.

Rumbling with vulnerability

Leading with values

Building trust

Rising from setbacks

Who should attend

Dr Brené Brown defines a leader as

“someone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes and has the courage to develop that potential”.

If innovation, creativity, empathy, team performance, being seen, speaking up and building your courage muscle is important to your success, then join this community of courageous leaders. The course is also designed for teams and leadership groups within organisations.

Meet your facilitator

Debra Birks

Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator

A facilitator, speaker and executive coach, Debra has more than 30 years of corporate experience and has led workshops and leadership courses across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. In 2016, she was accepted to train with Dr Brené Brown in the Daring Way™, then in 2018 Debra credentialed in Dr Brown’s highly-regarded Dare to Lead™ course.

An ICF level three executive and leadership coach, Debra has clocked up more than 10,000 hours of face-to-face executive coaching experience. She fuses her business acumen and leadership expertise with the evidence-based tools of positive psychology, neuroscience and the groundbreaking leadership of Dr Brown.

A Master of Leadership candidate from Deakin University, Debra is a highly-skilled facilitator ready to support you and your organisation to build brave leaders and courageous cultures.

Your learning journey

Dare to Lead™ is a face-to-face course delivered over three consecutive days. Four-to-six weeks after the course concludes, your facilitator will run a 90-minute online group coaching session for participants.

The most significant finding from Dr Brown’s latest research is that courage is a collection of four skillsets that are teachable, measurable and observable. Through Dare to Lead™ you’ll learn how to navigate your courage skills to strengthen your own leadership identity.

We’ll explore the importance of:

1. Rumbling with vulnerability

• How risk, uncertainty and emotional exposure are both courageous and vulnerable behaviours

• What’s at the heart of daring leadership

• Combating shame – a silent destroyer of culture and engagement – to ensure innovation and creativity thrive

• Empathy and self-compassion – building cultures of trust and connection.

2. Leading with values

• Operationalising your values, not just professing them

• Essential courage skills to engage in tough conversations

• Embracing the giving and receiving of feedback

• Learning essential boundarysetting skills.

3. Building trust

• Learn the seven elements of trust

• How to build trust into your teams and organisations

• Why self-trust is important

• How trust is essential to building meaningful connections.

4. Rising from setbacks

• Owning our stories to rise from setbacks and failures

• Understanding when we’re hooked by emotion – and how curiosity provides a rethink

• How and why the brain is wired for story

• Write your new ending and practise the practice.

The Details

2024 course dates

This course will run from 8–10 May 2024, at Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins St, Melbourne.

Fee

$2,995 AUD

Monash alumni receive a 10% discount.

Digital badging

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network.

The Dare to Lead™ ‘Participant Trained’ digital LinkedIn credential is a globally recognised leadership credential.

Monash Business School, Caulfield campus, Melbourne

T. +61 (3) 9903 1300

The information in this brochure was correct at time of publication (January 2024). Monash University reserves the right to alter this information should the need arise.

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MONASH BUSINESS SCHOOL

Monash Business School’s distinct approach to Corporate Education combines its strengths in the latest research and evidence from the world of business with lived experience and real-world practice and application. Our courses equip leaders with the insight to tackle new challenges, the skills to make better decisions and the contemporary thinking required to stay ahead in business –all grounded in the philosophy that it has to be immediately accessible and applicable.

Monash University reserves the right to alter information, procedures, fees and regulations contained in this document. Please check the Monash University website for updates (monash.edu).

All information reflects prescriptions, policy and practice in force at the time of publication. Published January 2024.

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