Leading Teams in a Crisis
Be a strong, effective leader in the face of uncertainty.
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1 day
In-person, on-campus
UNSW Canberra City Campus
$1045.00
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Overview
Explore the principles of effective leadership in emerging and uncertain situations. In this course, you'll enhance your understanding of leading and managing teams, learn how to identify risks and opportunities, and how to make evidence-based decisions in crisis situations.
Focusing on practical strategies, processes and frameworks, on completion of this course you'll understand how to practically apply management principles in difficult circumstances to make strategic, timely, robust decisions.
Course content
In this course you'll cover:
Introduction to leadership
- Leadership versus management
- Types of emerging situations
- Using mission command to communicate intent
- Problem formulation
- Impact of stress
Providing effective feedback
- Importance of feedback
- Principles of effective feedback
- Radical Candour
- Delivery mechanisms
Understanding risk and opportunity
- Risk management principles
- Threat equation
- Managing risk
- Identifying and exploiting opportunities
Evidence based decision making
- Bias in decision making
- Sources of information/evidence to make a decision
- Making evidence based decisions
- Agility in decision making
Decision making tools
- Pros and cons analysis
- SWOT
- Pugh matrix
- Force Field Analysis
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- describe and apply leadership traits
- deliver effective feedback
- conduct resource management in complex situations
- analyse risk and opportunities
- conduct evidence based decision making
- apply decision making tools.
Who should attend
- Managers and Team Leaders
- Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders
- Project Managers
- Human Resources Professionals
- Military and Emergency Response Personnel
- Non-profit and NGO Leaders
Prerequisites: None
Facilitator
Arran Hassell
Arran is a transformational and collaborative intelligence leader and senior executive with a proven track record in organisational leadership, intelligence, training and strategy. As a Director of Protegas Australia and as a former Australian Army senior officer (Brigadier) with 20 years of experience in the intelligence community, Arran is a highly capable and knowledgeable intelligence professional and leader with strong networks across the Federal and State Governments, the Defence Intelligence Group, the National Intelligence Community, the Five Eyes Intelligence enterprise and among partner nations’ intelligence organisations.
Bon Dimer
Bon is a highly capable leader and manager with a proven history of achieving mission outcomes across Defence and Intelligence domains. He is a National Security professional with experience in intelligence operations and complex case management. He has experience in operations planning, risk management, engineering change management, tender evaluation, contract management and consulting. Bon is an MBA and engineering graduate adept at identifying organisational challenges, then developing and implementing robust solutions. Bon has an innate sense of curiosity and desire to solve complex problems.
Cancellation policy
Courses will be held subject to sufficient registrations. UNSW Canberra reserves the right to cancel a course up to five working days prior to commencement of the course. If a course is cancelled, you will have the opportunity to transfer your registration or be issued a full refund. If registrant cancels within 10 days of course commencement, a 50% registration fee will apply. UNSW Canberra is a registered ACT provider under ESOS Act 2000-CRICOS provider Code 00098G.