Leading Champions Masterclass

The WA workforce is experiencing a boom on an industrial scale. Increasingly, the State’s combination of agriculture, minerals and resources, ecotourism and small business is key to Australia’s long term economic, social and environmental prosperity.

The Leading Champions masterclass series is designed to equip new, emerging or aspiring frontline managers and workplace leaders with critical capability to drive safe and productive workplaces. The masterclasses focus on equipping participants with a widely applicable problem-solving framework that can be quickly deployed to drive better outcomes.

Course overview

The Leading Champions masterclass has been developed for delivery to a diverse, multi-sectorial cohort. The use of peer-peer activities and discussions maximises interactions between participants while developing their understanding of existing management practices and their benefits and challenges.

Participants will broaden their knowledge of alternative management theories and evaluate them in a practicable setting. Working collectively, the cohort will hone their individual management skills in areas such as: decision making; conflict resolution; communication styles and strategies; setting, delivering and benchmarking KPIs; and stakeholder mapping and engagement. This will help build their capabilities in operating and leading in workplace settings that deliver optimum organisational and individual outcomes.

The delivery format is explicit, to encourage the formation of a community of practice the cohort can draw upon during and beyond the masterclass.  This will provide a platform for participants to continue developing their leadership skills across the regional sectors and organisations involved in the program.

The first two-day intensive workshop is designed to equip participants with a deep understanding about why and how we manage people and processes to create value. The second two-day intensive is focussed on imparting technical skills necessary to drive evidence-based solutions in management contexts.

Why this course is for you

In response to staff shortages, organisations have fast-tracked high-performing, technically savvy team members into supervisory and middle-management roles, often without the requisite leadership skills. This workshop addresses the need to upskill these rising stars with leadership capabilities to address questions like, but not limited to:

• managing and assessing performance
• setting goals and targets, and delivering them
• conflict resolution and motivation talks
• change and time management

If these are issues your organisation is facing, this course will build, first knowledge then skills for new managers to become the best leaders they can be.

Course details

Delivery Options: Face-to-face  

Cost: $3,000 inc. GST

*Discounts available for ECU Staff, students, alumni, and previous Executive Education participants. For enquiries: ExecEducation@ecu.edu.au

For those with academic aspirations, these masterclasses have been developed to contribute towards credit in an introductory unit of the ECU Graduate Certificate of Business or Master of Business Administration. Please contact the team for further information.

About the facilitator

Professor Ben Farr-Wharton is the Associate Dean of Business Administration and a Professor of Workforce Strategy. Ben’s research specialises in employee wellbeing and compassion. For the last decade, he has worked with a broad array of organisations across the globe, to enhance workplace productivity through wellbeing, inclusion, and psychosocial safety initiatives.

Dr Fleur Sharafizad is a Lecturer in Management in the School of Business and Law. Fleur has a broad range of research interests that include gender and careers, well-being at work in the context or first responders, and research methodologies. In addition, recognising the broader application of the concept of work, Fleur has a keen interest in contributing to research (and pragmatic change) to the working conditions of individuals undertaking the less visible and recognised work on which our society depends, such as informal personal carers. On the whole, Fleur is interested in projects that can pragmatically impact policy and organisational processes to support individual well-being.

Dr Aglae Hernandez-Grande is a Academic Career Development Fellow in the Management Discipline at the School of Business and Law. Aglae has a PhD candidate in Management from the University of Technology Sydney, holds a Master of Business Administration and has worked as an Operations Manager in both Spain and Australia. Her research focuses on employee wellbeing and organisational resources, using advanced quantitative methodologies. Specifically, she is interested in how organisations can better support their employees’ mental and physical health, with a particular focus on emergency services organisations and first responders.