| Morning Sessions |
Welcome & Tour de Table |
Introductions; everyone names one real leadership challenge they’re facing right now we’ll come back to these all day |
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What Leadership Actually Is (and Isn’t) |
A plain-language working definition; why having a title doesn’t make you a leader, and why managing tasks isn’t the same as leading people |
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Can Anyone Lead, Even Without a Title? |
Why some teams run well without one designated “boss”, and what that tells you about where your authority as a manager really comes from |
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Leadership Looks Different Everywhere |
Why “good leadership” isn’t the same in every culture, organisation, or generation and what that means for how you adapt to your own team |
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Are Leaders Born or Made? |
The short answer (made, not born) and why that’s good news: leadership is a skill you can deliberately build, starting now |
| Afternoon Sessions |
Where Our Ideas About Leadership Come From |
A fast tour of how leadership thinking evolved just enough so you recognise the vocabulary used around you, without the academic detail |
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Two Practical Modes: Reward-Based vs. Inspiration-Based |
The difference between leading through clear expectations and consequences, and leading through vision and motivation and when to use each |
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What Makes a Leader Genuinely Good |
Competence isn’t enough: the role of integrity, fairness, and care for people and how to make sound calls when there’s no perfect answer |
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Break |
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The Specific Challenges of Leading in the Public Sector |
Political pressure, budget constraints, rigid hierarchies, slow processes, naming what you’re actually up against so you can work with it, not against it |
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Find Your Own Leadership Style |
The seven common styles in plain terms; a short self-assessment so you walk away knowing your own default and one thing to adjust |
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Earning Trust as a New Leader |
How teams actually decide to follow someone, and what that means for your first weeks in a new role; the role of feedback in staying credible over time |
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Q&A, Takeaways, and What’s Next |
Open questions, your personal one-page action plan for the next 30 days, and how this connects to the two follow-on seminars |
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