What to expect when applying for the Illawarra Leadership Program
The current 2023-24 participants are the sixth cohort of the Leadership Illawarra Program.
Our Program consists of one-day masterclasses, site visits to some of the region's leading businesses, hands-on workshops, mentoring partnerships and social events where participants can meet and network with our partners and alumni.
Our Program consists of one-day masterclasses, site visits to some of the region's leading businesses, hands-on workshops, mentoring partnerships and social events where participants can meet and network with our partners and alumni.
MASTERCLASSES
In association with Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, we have put together a suite of Masterclasses that address issues specific to the Illawarra region:
Marketing masterclass content:
Leadership masterclass content:
Community & Engagement/Social Responsibility masterclass content:
At the completion of this session participants would be expected to have gained an understanding of:
- Marketing *
- Leadership *
- Community and Engagement
Marketing masterclass content:
- Discuss marketing for the new realities
- Critically reviews the role of environmental scanning and marketing intelligence as it applies to marketing strategy
- Provides practical concepts and tools in the areas within marketing such as marketing planning, customer behaviour, competitive analysis segmentation, targeting and positioning analysis, and integrated marketing communications, and
- Illustrates the importance of social responsibility and other perspectives when making holistic marketing decisions.
Leadership masterclass content:
- Explain and critique common approaches to leadership in practice and theory
- Describe your own implicit leadership theory and ways it influences your actions when wanting to be perceived as a leader
- Apply socially constructed approaches to leadership to change the way that others perceive you as a leader
- Perform more effectively as a leader and manager to being better able to understand and influence the perceptions of others.
Community & Engagement/Social Responsibility masterclass content:
- What is CSR and the different terms that are used globally in industry
- Mental models and responsible decision-making dimensions
- Realistic perspectives on community and environmental responsibilities
- The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Principles and their impact on corporations
- The Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and their impact on decision-making.
At the completion of this session participants would be expected to have gained an understanding of:
- Our region's community and environmental needs
- Personal and Corporate social responsibility
- A leader's role in business as it pertains to responsible decision-making
- The region's cultural diversity
- The region's business community engagement and social responsibility programs
- Global programs such as the UNGC & the SDG.
SITE VISITS
Over the two-year program our cohort has the opportunity to take part in approximately 12 site visits with prominent Illawarra businesses like Mercer, Wollongong City Council, Flagstaff Group, Greenacres, IMB Bank, ISLHD, Warrigal and BlueScope. These visits are typically conducted with leaders from the organisation and include a Q&A session.
WORKSHOPS
We have engaged the services of trusted leadership coach Eleanor Hayman and Great Managers to put together a program of Leadership education - at-home learning followed by hands-on workshops - that covers the following subjects:
Other workshops undertaken by leading facilitators from the region include: Coaching for Managers
Networking for Success
Other workshops are developed to suit the needs of the cohort |
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MENTORING
We have recruited mentors from regional businesses at the highest level, across a range of industries. Program participants are paired with a mentor and participate in a number of one-on-one meetings where they will work through self directed goals. This process is repeated with a different pairing in the second year of the program.
SOCIAL AND ALUMNI EVENTS
Social events are scattered throughout the program ranging from morning coffee to catch up and socialise, to ‘speaker’ events and after-work networking drinks.
Click here for a copy of the Program Timetable 2023-24 to give you an idea of what to expect.