Leadership Forum, 21 April
Coaching Your Team to High Performance
Tuesday, 21 April
12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Grand Hyatt Singapore
Developed and led by Marie Earl, Strategy Consultant and Executive Coach
The Leadership Forum is APAC's executive leadership programme that enables advancement leaders to look at key leadership challenges and strategies to be effective in their roles. This Forum is developed for Directors, Principals, Deans, Deputy or Pro-Vice Chancellors (or equivalent) and senior heads of higher education institutions and schools featuring topics on leadership, strategy and general management.
Important Note: This will run concurrently with the Schools Programme and Road Map to Advancement on 21 April.
Overview:
Today’s practice of advancement requires a high level of skill, resilience & support. Advancement leaders and their teams draw on cognitive capacity and social intelligence to succeed. Research reveals that sustaining high performance requires physical and emotional strength and having a strong sense of purpose and clear values as well.
As you coach your team to high performance, you’ll need to consider all these dimensions to keep the team focused on collective results and working collaboratively. Working from a strong foundation of trust, your team will be able to manage conflict productively and hold one another accountable for delivering on commitments.
Learning Outcomes:
- You will understand the key components of cultivating high performance teamwork and primary obstacles to high performance teamwork.
- You will have a preliminary roadmap for improving the performance of your team and for strengthening your own leadership practices in support of sustained high performance.
- You will be introduced to new tools to support you and your team in your ongoing pursuit of high performance.
Programme
11:30 a.m.
Registration opens
12 p.m.
Networking Lunch
12:45 p.m.
Segment One
- Introductions, outline of afternoon
- Theory Content: What Do High Performing Teams Look Like?
Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team + Pre-Survey Results on Team Performance
Taking Stock: Paired conversation - How did I rate my team? - Theory Content: What Is My Contribution as Team Leader?
Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge + Pre-Survey Results on Leadership Practices
Taking Stock: Paired conversation – How did I rate myself as a team leader?
2 p.m.
Segment Two
- Theory Content: Values Drive Behaviour
Exercise: What Matters to You & Why? - Maister, Green & Galford’s The Trusted Advisor
Taking Stock: The Trust Equation: Can others trust my words, actions, emotions and motives?
Practice: Personal History Exercise
3 p.m.
Coffee and Conversations
3:30 p.m.
Segment Three
- Theory Content: Committed Action—Clarity, Buy-in, Accountability
- Practice: Making An Effective Request
- Practice: Council Mode
- Practice: Managing Breakdowns
4:30 p.m.
Segment Four: Wrap-Up
- Exercise: Intention Setting
- Closing Thoughts
5 p.m.
End of Leadership Forum
Depart for APAC Reception
5:30 p.m.
APAC Reception
SKAI Suites, Level 69, Swissotel The Stamford
2 Stamford Road
7:30 p.m.
End of reception
Return to hotel
Marie Earl
Marie has worked in advancement for over 30 years—as AVP Alumni for the University of British Columbia and Executive Director of the UBC Alumni Association, as Director of Alumni Relations at Stanford University, and in various non-profit and advocacy organisations. For the past ten years, she has had a dual career as a strategy consultant to over fifty universities and as an executive coach helping develop the leadership capacity of clients from a broad range of industries worldwide. As a certified integral coach, she supports clients in becoming better leaders, transforming their workplaces, and creating thriving people-centric organisations. She lives in Pacific Grove, California.