Leading For Performance
Leadership is about driving performance of others. If you’re an early-stage manager or simply looking to improve the performance of your team, then this SkillStack is for you.
We’ve assembled the smartest minds, from business, sport, academia and leadership development to teach you the skills to lead the performance of your team to new hights. You will learn:
Learning Objectives
Performance management requires understanding, context and a range of skills and tools to navigate motivation and discretionary effort though complexity. You’ll learn how HP is created and the tool kit you need to improve the performance of your team.
In this SkillStack you will learn what Daragh has discovered in leading HP teams across 4 Olympic Games and working with the #1 rugby team in the world. He will share stories, tactical approaches and techniques to create an effective, repeatable and successful coaching process.
Motivation and resilience is often created in what happens between us. We are more often than not more motivated and resilient as a collective than as individuals. In this SkillStack, Margaret shares her thought leadership from her 6 books and her TED talks, seen by over 13 million people.
You will learn that direction is more important than speed and why it is good for your mental health. In this SkillStack, you will learn how to set goals that are future proof, that stand the test of time. You will hear about the link between process and outcome and when to do which.
In this SkillStack you will learn the five elements of authentic leadership to earn the trust of employees, peers and all stakeholders to win. Angela will share techniques to help you deepen relationships and to be more self-disciplined, in order to lead with authenticity.
In this SkillStack you will learn practical hacks to collect and leverage key characteristics and attributes of your team in order to successfully interact with them, and to facilitate meaningful collaboration beyond place.
In this SkillStack, Stephanie focuses on how to tap into empathy and authenticity when providing feedback, and how to build trust and a growth mindset as the core foundations of psychological safety in the performance management.
Leading High Performance Teams with Leadership Thought-leader, Ian McClean
What to Expect:
In this lesson you’ll hear leadership consultant and business founder, Ian McClean share insights from Project Aristotle, what Google learned about high performance after examining 180 teams, and it’s not what you will expect!
You’ll hear stories from PSG, the All Blacks and Michael Jordon to understand what happens between us is what matters most. You’ll get a sense of how unlock the diversity of your team to drive performance, the need to align the where, what, who and why and how to embrace discomfort to build greater trust.
Learning Objectives:
If you’re a first-time manager begin your leadership journey, a manager of a new team or an experienced leader looking to elevate performance of your team this skills stack is for you.
Performance management is not a periodical event nor a planning process but rather a journey that requires understanding, context and a range of skills and tools to navigate motivation and discretionary effort through complexity. You’ll gain a unique insight into what HP is, how it’s created and conclude with a practical tool kit to apply to your team today to improve performance for tomorrow.
Key Takeaways:
1. What HP is for individuals, teams and managers
2. How to create the environment of HP
3. How to align a diverse group around common success
4. How to skilfully navigate tense conversations
5. How to build trust when it matters most
Coaching for High Performance with former head of HP at Irish Rugby, Darragh Sheridan
What to Expect:
In this session you will hear Dr. Daragh Sheridan (Sport Psychologist) share stories, strategies and lessons learned from the world of elite sport. Daragh who is currently the former Head of HP Coach Development with Irish Rugby trains HP coaches to create an environment and experience enabling elite athletes to realize their performance potential.
He advocates a high degree of role clarity up front, where the coach questions and listens and plays the role of a space maker. At its best its an incredible dance at the edge where support and challenge meet and to create a desired performance result.
Darragh will share stories and insights spanning 4 Olympic Games and multiple sports.
You’ll hear behind the scenes stories of key performance moments that delivered success on the world stage in boxing, sailing, rugby and much more.
Learning Objectives:
Key to performance success lies in the coaches ability to position and maintain their coaching offering in a reality where no two people are the same and the performance environment is always dynamically changing.
In this SkillStack you will learn what Daragh has learned in leading HP teams, elite athletes and coaches into 4 Olympic Games and how Irish Rugby becoming #1 team in the world.
He will share stories, tactical approaches and techniques he designed to create an effective and repeatable coaching process and how to deliver shared success through 4 key stages – Define, Develop, Deliver and Debrief.
Key Takeaways:
1. Go Slow to go fast
2. Create the space between
3. Listen to understand
4. Reconstructing possibility
5. Eliciting Change
6. The weigh-in
Building Resilient Teams with award-winning Author & TED Speaker, Margaret Heffernan
What to Expect:
Building resilient teams boils down to social capital. Organisations are made up of bricks and mortar: human capital (the bricks) and social capital (the mortar), in other words, the social relationships between the people. What happens between us is what matters most.
Motivation and resilience is often created in what happens between us. We are more often than not more motivated and resilient as a collective than as individuals. Generosity + reciprocity + trust = social capital.
In this SkillStack, Margaret expands on her thought leadership since writing about social capital in her award winning book “Beyond Measure” and her TED talks that have been seen by over 13 million people.
Learning Objectives:
In this SkillStack, you will learn the five fundamentals in building social capital in order to create resilient teams.
Key Takeaways:
1. Building collective intelligence. High performance relates more to EQ than IQ.
2. Social Capital: The norms of generosity, reciprocity and trust are created though spending time together.
3. Friendship: Teams that last longer are more productive.
4. Listening. Listen to learn how your team collaborate. Understand where the collective intelligence lies, to unlock social capital.
5. Share the load. In building relationships based on generosity, reciprocity and trust, it allows us to ask for support and offer support more freely.
Goal Setting
with Author & Performance Coach, Neil O‘Brien
What to Expect:
In this session you will learn why it is important to have goals, how to set them, and how to achieve them. After almost 30 years of coaching individuals and teams Neil (Author & HP Coach) believes that having a sense of direction is a vital component of greater achievement and success.
Indeed this is evident in the worlds of mental health and wellbeing too. As you are about to learn though a sense of direction and goal setting can take different forms and approaches. Also, in turbulent times it is likely that the orthodox way of goal setting is not as effective in unorthodox times.
Learning Objectives:
You will learn that direction is more important than speed and why it is good for your mental health. You will learn how to set goals that are future proof: that stand the test of time and are unaffected by global recessions and pandemics.
You will hear about the flaws in goal setting and how to avoid them. You will hear about the link between process and outcome and when to do which. You will also learn if there is a role for luck and happy coincidence
Key Takeaways:
1. Where are you going?
2. Be Smart: Best method to achieve your goals.
3. Be Careful: 5 fatal flaws of orthodox goal setting
4. Be your own coach: Focus on process not outcome
5. Be lucky: get coincidence and serendipity to work for you
Authentic Leadership with Former Harvard Business Publishing, CHRO, Angela Cheng-Cimini
What to Expect:
Angela, CHRO, Harvard Business Publishing will lean on her 30+ years of experience as an HR leader to help you learn how to lead with authenticity. Authenticity is about you as a leader but it isn’t a solo activity. It depends upon the relationships you build with others and the way in which you inspire others to follow you and take action.
She’ll share real world examples that demonstrate how effective leaders develop and deploy authenticity to build strong teams and achieve high levels of performance.
Learning Objectives:
In this SkillStack you will learn the five elements of authentic leadership to earn the trust of employees, peers and all stakeholders to win. You will learn how to leverage your sense of purpose over time through living up to your values daily.
Angela will share techniques to help you deepen relationships and to be more self-disciplined, in order to lead with authenticity.
Key Takeaways:
- Mission: commitment to a purpose
- Values: core of who you are and which drives behaviours
- Heart: empathy for yourself and others
- Relationships: ability to connect with others
- Self-discipline: ability to resist impulses, maintain focus and follow-through
Managing Distributed Teams
with Author, Jo Weech
What to Expect:
High-touch leadership is required in a low-touch working world. In this SkillStack you will hear Jo Weech share stories, strategies and lessons learned from her work advising on the evolving world of work.
When team members cannot convene in-office, many opportunities for connecting organically are lost. The challenges are not just geographic. Being able to understand different backgrounds will go a long way in being able to manage a diverse, distributed team.
What binds them and motivates them is often different to in-office teams.
Learning Objectives:
In this SkillStack you will learn practical hacks to collect and leverage key characteristics and attributes of your team in order to successfully interact with them, and to facilitate meaningful collaboration beyond place.
Key Takeaways:
This SkillStack will teach you the skills to manage distributed teams more effectively, through:
- Knowing Where, When and How every individual works best
- Using agile performance management
- Democratising success
- Creating intentional space for connection
- Set the tone and foster fun
Sustaining Performance
with Author & Performance Coach, Neil O‘Brien
What to Expect:
In this session you will hear Neil O’Brien talk about what it takes to sustain performance, the balance between doing well and being well.
Neil, a best selling author, international speaker and high performance coach will share stories, examples and strategies in the area of sustaining motivation, avoiding the potential trap, how to recover faster and the power of momentum.
Learning Objectives:
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far to together. Neil will share what he has learned in coaching professional athletes and business leaders to sustain performance.
He will share his five key pillars to help sustain performance for yourself and others. You will learn methods and practices to elevate your mindset for enduring performance from how to regulate motivation, get better at the basics, build mental fitness and how others effect your enduring performance.
Key Takeaways:
1. How to sustain motivation through action
2. Never neglect the basics.
3. Watch the potential trap. Understand how micro improvement drives macro ambition
4. Resilience – how to build mental fitness
5. Wellbeing: How to balance doing-well and being-well.
