Leadership Discovery

About Leadership Discovery

Leadership Discovery is a 6 month program co-designed with UniSA colleagues to provide a highly practical and experiential learning experience to strengthen UniSA leadership capability.

Leadership Discovery includes workshops, an opportunity to work with a coach, access to a broad range of contemporary leadership resources, and to hear and learn from some of UniSA's outstanding leaders across the University.

Learning outcomes:

Explore the UniSA leadership expectations and how individual actions, behaviours and language can impact leadership legacy, team performance and collective leadership impact on UniSA strategic ambitions.
Establish strong collaborative connections with peers from across the university to strengthen leadership insights and build effective networks to respond with agility on potential opportunities.
To build a shared understanding of our strategic aspirations and how through shared learning and collaboration we can build a trusting, collaborative and collegiate environment within and across the university and with our external partners.
Enhance participant’s emotional intelligence to expand their personal effectiveness, political navigation, and leadership impact.
Enable leaders to understand how to navigate performance conversations to enhance the potential, contribution, and performance of others.
Explore how to make impactful Enterprising decisions that balance multiple stakeholder perspectives, consider operational and sector context and align to UniSA ambitions and commitments.

Dates & commitment:

It is important that potential participants can attend all required learning elements prior to application. Line managers will also need to support this commitment. In 2023 there are two cohorts available. The proposed session dates for Leadership Discovery in 2023 are:

Program 1