Leading IT – Leadership Development Programme

Overview

This leadership programme is for ITS staff and selected IT Managers from other areas who wish to enhance their leadership skills.

UWA and ITS recognise the importance of providing development opportunities to its leaders, which will equip them to face the many challenges of leadership in our dynamic environment. This new programme, funded by ITS, will support the development of enhanced leadership capacity, enabling participants to have a significant impact on their work area. It will encourage the development of new insights, knowledge and skills as well as the opportunity to expand networks.

Aims

This programme aims to

• Enhance leadership skills and understanding
• Encourage cross-institutional sharing
• Focus on human and resource leadership and management issues in qn IT context
• Extend personal networks
• Provide support for leaders working in a complex environment

Principles

Mix of ITS Managers/staff and other interested IT Managers

This programme supports the ‘one staff one university’ principle. The majority of places will be provided to ITS leaders/managers. Some further places will be open to ITS staff who aspire to leadership positions in the future and wish to self-nominate. There will also be places for IT managers who are located in other areas of the University who will also self-nominate. The opportunity to share information, skills and experiences across a diverse group is intended to help improve communication and share best practice. Networking will be a major focus, and we hope that participants will build strong working relationships which will strengthen their leadership practice for years to come.

Mix of genders

The programme is open to both men and women.

Selection by invitational and self-nomination processes

Participants on the programme will be chosen by a mix of invitational and self-nomination processes. We use this approach to promote diversity within the programme cohort and to ensure that a wide range of views and perspectives will contribute to a rich and varied learning environment.

• Invitational:

  Those participants invited to attend will be chosen with a view to enhancing the leadership capability across key staff within ITS.

• Self-nominating:

  In addition to those invited to participate, several places have been made available for ITS staff who aspire to leadership roles and IT staff in other parts of the University, to self-nominate, so that individuals can use this opportunity to further develop their leadership potential. If you are self-nominating, you will need to complete the application form (see bottom of this page).

Programme elements

The programme will contain the following elements:

• 360-degree feedback to identify areas of strength and developmental needs
• Foundation 1-day workshop
• DiSC profiling tool to understand your behavioural preferences as leaders and how these preferences impact on others
• Individual leadership plans for self-directed learning
• Four half-day workshops on topics relevant to the needs identified for the cohort
• Opportunities for internal networking