Programme Content
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Personal preparation
Pre-residential workshop: August to November 2014
Personal leadership mentoring begins with an individual assessment of your stage of development and continues with profiling of thinking style and character traits including feedback about your style from a mentor.
- A learning journal to complete personal growth exercises, identifying your leadership path and goals before the workshop supported by individual mentouring
- Reading, videos and a short written document to encourage shared knowledge before your first social meeting of fellow attendees at the residential workshop
- A meeting to discuss personal feedback and design a set of realistic goals and measures for the programme.
Realisation
Residential Workshop: 18th to 21st November 2014
The residential workshop is an opportunity to learn with a group of like-minded senior professionals over three days beginning in the evening at 6 pm on Tuesday and finishing at 4pm on Friday. You will learn from others’ experiences, discussion and exercises with a mindful focus on your own situation. This workshop enables knowledge to become integrated into wisdom.
- Using shared frameworks to contain and focus communication and performance
- Growing a positive culture without forcing change
- Turning strategy into action through communal alignment
- Adopting a positive and wider perspective when making decisions
- Learning to let go and do less by understanding the basics of asking the right questions
- Developing a future plan for personal contribution and meaning
- Understanding the reality of human and institutional politics.
A balance of action and reflection, story-telling, content delivery and discovery exercises will be topped off by exciting speakers chosen for their wisdom and leadership experience in a New Zealand context.
Activation
Post-residential workshop: November to March 2015
After the three days of collective learning, it’s now all about translating new approaches, techniques and mind-sets to real work. No new information will be introduced during this phase, but consolidation of learning and application will become the focus. You will be part of a small peer mentor group by the end of the residential workshop and learning will be largely through experience and discussion with others in the group. Programme alumni will have access to the Wise Executive page of the NZPI website for regular updates, reading and videos.
Two webinar master-classes will be provided on relevant topics identified by participants including on-line interviews with other NZ leaders.
The NZPI Wise Executive portal will give access to other useful materials and information and each person will have a personal mentoring session with the programme facilitators after three months (in person or online). This is where you will report on personal progress and achievements based upon your journal and receive support. All will receive a certificate upon completion of the programme.
Alumni will be invited to become a member of the NZPI Wisdom Group and offer mentoring and encouragement to young professionals who are starting on the journey.
