Digital Leadership: Elevate

The digital leader’s toolbox: Doing
In this module you’ll build confidence in what you already know, as well as your ability to lead. Get equipped with an accessible toolbox of mindsets, skills, tools and approaches that you can use and apply right away.

• Types of tools and frameworks for leadership
• The art of listening
• 21st century skills and transferable skills for leadership
• Building trust and relationships

Thinking like a leader: Thinking
Unearth the thinking processes we might use when we are in leadership positions. Explore the importance of making decisions, the ethics and potential ramifications of getting it wrong. Get exposure to the strategic tools that help craft a vision for the team or organisational unit.

• Effective and productive thinking
• Decision making (making better decisions)

Commercial acumen
In Module 4 we support decision making and vision setting with commercial awareness. Demonstrating an awareness of how a business operates and the factors that determine its performance, enables compelling business cases for innovation and/or transformation that align company objectives with strategic action.

• Cultivating a strategic mindset
• Improving your strategic thinking skills
• Embracing conflict
• Building financial acumen
• Financial terms 101
• Commercial capability
• Commercial viability
• Market orientation

Stakeholder management
Learn how to best communicate with stakeholders, which is key to advocacy, managing expectations and securing buy-in.

• Identify potential, primary and secondary key stakeholders
• Prioritise stakeholders
• Identify and analyse stakeholder needs, goals, objectives and expectations
• Strategies to influence decision making

Change management
Effective change management is essential for leading a digital innovation or transformation. In Module 6 we will look broadly at the change process with our focus on digital, consider techniques and reactions to change, and look at methods for addressing negativity and uncertainty.

• Attitudinal considerations to change
• Strategies for adopting and adapting to digital innovation and transformation change
• Implementing best practices for driving change
• Common digital transformation pitfalls

Understanding teams and dynamics
Implementation time means moving from ‘me’ to ‘we.’ Module 7 is about teams, what that means and how to know if we are moving in the right direction as a team. Explore what kinds of teams and organisational structures represent best practice in the digital space.

• Teams and the digital age - creating a learning-culture environment
• Types of individuals in a team - team personas
• Team dynamics - accountability, authority and autonomy
• The 5 dysfunctions of a team (can you make it in the digital age?)
• Types of teams and structures in the digital age

Building a high performing team
Module 8 forms a blueprint on how to build your high performing team. Each topic follows the model of a high performing team: forming, norming, storming and performing.

• Forming
• Norming
• Storming 
• Performing

Enabling a team (culture)
Once your team is set and you’re leading successfully, what comes next? In Module 9 you will learn how to unleash the potential of your team and what you as a leader need to do in order to enable this.

• Leading a team
• Facilitating people and outcomes
• Unleashing creative potential

Growing and improving your team
At some point you’re going to need to stop and evaluate the team you are leading. Are they the right fit? Do we need to grow? Do we need to cut back? Module 10 should equip leaders to face some of the more difficult activities a leader might need to experience. Additionally it explores how to continuously improve your team and create a culture of feedback.

• Navigating change and conflict
• Learning loops and continuous improvement
• Recruiting and growing your team