Collaborative Leadership
Collaboration is the competitive advantage of performance. The greater the collaboration and inclusivity of a team, the greater the performance. In this SkillStack you’ll learn the skills to be a collaborative leader and how to increase collaboration amongst your team to enhance performance.
In this SkillStack you’ll hear behind the scenes stories from; negotiating peace in Northern Ireland, research that shaped TED talks, award winning books and the secret sauce behind NASA, LEGO and HubSpot’s culture.
We’ve collaborated with thought leaders from politics, academia, media, business and the arts to help you be you engage, influence and align your people for greater performance.
Learning Objectives
This SkillStack will challenge your thinking on the different leadership styles required for each stage of team evolution. Barbara will teach you how to recognising the strengths within a team and how to encourage trust and diversity through the 5 components of collaborative leadership.
In this former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern share stories, strategies and lessons learned from negotiating the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. He’ll share insights from key moments in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement, tactics he used to nudge sides closer during one of the most intense periods of the conflict in Northern Ireland. You will learn the four key principles to collaborative negotiation.
In this SkillStack, Margaret will share what she has learned through researching her award-winning books, her TED talks, personal experiences as a CEO, Professor and advisor. This SkillStack is aimed at helping managers understand the reality of diversity: where its value really lies, why it matters so much and how to achieve it. Learn the difference between lip service and action through 5 key principles.
Managers often avoid direct conversations around DEIA, afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. Joanna will explain how to navigate this and to align intent and impact. She’ll trace the moments where DEIA can impact most and in doing so help you reduce risk of exclusion and help create a team in inclusion and belonging.
Barbara will guide you through the research and practices that help build trust, the glue to creating meaningful relationships and connection. In this SkillStack you will learn how to know what trust levels look like at any given time and how to diagnose trust levels through behaviours and signals.
In this SkillStack, Rob will share what he has learned through working with global thought leaders through his conference series Talent Summit and his 20 year career building teams for some of the most iconic employer brands in the world.
He‘ll share insights in how to craft the culture you aspire to have through: values, beliefs, practices and rules, but ultimately your nee for you to be the role model.
Every culture tells stories. Storytelling is the simplest way humans have discovered to pass on values that drive behaviours and shape culture. In this SkillStack Steve shares methods to collect and tell stories to create desired culture.
Collaborative Leadership
with EQ & Leadership Expert, Barbara Nugent
What to Expect:
In this session you will hear Barbara Nugent share stories, strategies and lessons learned from the world of corporate leadership.
Barbara, EQ expert and Founder, coaches executive leaders around the globe, advocating for enhanced emotional intelligence, where leaders tune in to their ability to respond to the situation at hand, rather than react.
Understanding your ability to influence great change for the better in your work environment, and indeed your personal world, striving to do better, be better and inspire better.
Learning Objectives:
This SkillStack will challenge your thinking on:
- How teams are formed– complementary skills, common purpose, mutual accountability
- The evolution of your leadership style.
- The development stages of teams, what style should the leader adopt at each stage and what needs to happen to move through the stages.
- Recognising the strengths within a team and how to encourage trust and diversity.
- What’s missing when teams don’t function well?
Key Takeaways:
1. The breakdown of the six leadership styles.
2. The five development stages of teams.
3. Rules of engagement.
4. The five components to collaborative leadership
Collaborative Negotiation with former Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland), Bertie Ahern
What to Expect:
In this lesson you’ll hear former Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Bertie Ahern share stories, strategies and lessons learned from negotiating the Peace Process in Northern Ireland.
He’ll share stories of taking personal and political risks in meeting with paramilitary groups in secret, navigating contentious issues such as prisoner release programmes, lessons learned from former US President Bill Clinton and what it took to change decades long rhetoric of “Ulster says No” to “Ulster says Yes”.
He’ll share insights from key moments in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement, tactics he used to nudge sides closer during one of the most intense periods of the conflict in Northern Ireland and how it achieved enduring peace for the people across the island of Ireland.
Learning Objectives:
Life is a negotiation and we do it in all aspects of our life, every day often without realising it. Negotiation should always be seen as a collaboration, never a zero sum game and always seek a win win. In this skill stack you will learn tactical approaches, practices, strategies and techniques for collaborative negotiation and how to navigate the four C’s: Common interests, Conflicting interests, Compromise and Criteria.
Key Takeaways:
1. Listen first, act second
2. Manage expectations of all stakeholders
3. Invest in building trust
4. Create legitimacy in decision making
5. Collaborative Negotiation techniques: Language, mirroring and open communication
6. Negotiation is a process and not an agreement
Inclusive Leadership with award-winning DEIA Leader, Dr. Joanna Abeyie, MBE
What to Expect:
In this lesson you’ll hear from Dr. Joanna Abeyie MBE CC, a multi-award-winning Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) leader, pull from her pioneering work as a Civil Service Commissioner, a Common Councillor for the City of London, a Co-Secretariat of the Creative Diversity All Party Parliamentary Group and as former Head of Creative Diversity at the BBC.
In this Skill Stack you’ll learn how to create an inclusive environment for you and your team. You’ll learn a method to track and trace moments of EDIA in your people lifecycle and how to create agency through vulnerability.
Learning Objectives:
Whether you’re a first-time manager looking to understand what it takes to be inclusive or an experienced leader looking to create an inclusive environment, this skill stack is for you. Managers often avoid direct conversations around DEIA, afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. Joanna will explain how to navigate this and to align intent and impact.
She’ll trace the moments where DEIA can impact most and in doing so help you reduce risk of exclusion and help create a team in inclusion and belonging.
Key Takeaways:
1. Defining Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility
2. What does EDIA mean for the people life-cycle?
3. Prepare to be the Student
4. Create psychological safety
Developing Diverse Perspectives with award-winning Author & TED Speaker, Margaret Heffernan
What to Expect:
The whole point of organizational life is that groups of people can see more options and make better decisions than individuals working in isolation. But that is true only insofar as the individuals are different from one another and work in an environment where that difference is seen as an asset, not an issue. So it is easy in principle, hard in reality.
In this SkillStack, Margaret will share what she has learned through researching her award-winning books, her TED talks, personal experiences as a CEO, TV Producer, Professor and advisor.
Learning Objectives:
This SkillStack is aimed at helping managers understand the reality of diversity: where its value really lies, why it matters so much and how to achieve it. Learn the difference between lip service and action. 5 Principles:
Key Takeaways:
1. Know your bias. It’s biological.
2. The Cost of Similarity: Similarity is predictable and unlikely to bring diverse perspective to decisions or work.
3. The Greatest ideas come from unexpected places. Crowdsource diverse input.
4. Diversity brings disagreement. Challenge the idea and not the person.
5. Diversity needs support. Hire diverse people and then support them.
Building Trust
with EQ & Leadership Expert, Barbara Nugent
What to Expect:
In this SkillStack you will hear Barbara Nugent share stories, techniques and lessons on how to build trust. Barbara, EQ expert and Founder, coaches executives around the globe, advocating for deeper relationships through creating trust.
Barbara will guide you through the research and practices that help build trust, the glue to creating meaningful relationships and connection.
Learning Objectives:
In this SkillStack you will learn:
- What is trust and why does it matters.
- It takes two to trust: Both to be Trusting from Trustworthy
- How to know what trust levels look like and how to diagnose trust levels through behaviours and signals.
Key Takeaways:
1. The benefits of trust on performance.
2. What it is and how it’s different to psychological safety.
3. A method to identify trust levels within a team.
4. The eight pillars to building trust through being trusting and trustworthy.
Crafting Culture with Founder of Talent Summit & SkillStack Rob Mac Giolla Phadraig
What to Expect:
In this SkillStack, Rob will share what he has learned in building teams for some of the most iconic employer brands in the world and working with some of the brightest minds on workplace culture, though his conference series, Talent Summit, one of the largest HR Leadership conferences in Europe.
He will share techniques used by award winning brands such NASA, LEGO and Hubspot. Rob shares how to leverage culture to build reputation for commercial success.
Key Takeaways:
In this SkillStack, Rob will share what he has learned through working with global thought leaders through his conference series Talent Summit and his 20 year career building teams for some of the most iconic employer brands in the world.
Understand the power of your values stories and how you tell them create competitive advantage internally and externally. Those behaviours are shaped by values, beliefs, attitudes, practices and rules, but ultimately need to be role modelled by you.
Key Takeaways:
- To obtain a clear definition of organisational culture and how to take actions to shape it
- To understand the relationship between purpose and values and importance of aligning both
- How to think of values as a value proposition to attract talent, retain talent and sell to customers
- How to create bottom-up, top-down values (for remote, hybrid and in-office environments)
Stories that Shape Culture with Author & former BBC TV Journalist, Steve Rawling
What to Expect:
Every culture tells stories. It’s how civilisations have passed on fundamental lessons and norms that have shaped diverse cultures all over the world. Storytelling is the simplest way humans have discovered to pass on values that drive behaviours and shape culture.
Steve Rawling is a former BBC TV journalist, international author and business storyteller. His Storyteller methods are used by companies all over the world including Meta, Google and Rolls Royce.
Learning Objectives:
To get the job done we need to control “things” and understand “people”. When work models are steady there’s no story to tell, but when model’s break down stories matter. Stories exchange to get things done. Now Zoom out and you have loads of stories flying around your organisation.
Experienced experts don’t need stories as they have living memory, but new hires are hungry for stories. In this SkillStack Steve shares methods to collect and tell stories to create desired culture.
Key Takeaways:
This SkillStack you will learn how to understand and use stories to shape culture.
- Create a story bank. How about new hires interview experts to collect stories about how things are done in your company.
- Create your narrative. Use stories that speak to hearts and minds, internally and externally.
- Small stories and big stories matter. Influence the flow of stories to shape culture.
