PG Skills: Leadership for the workplace

• Which leadership skills and qualities are really valued by employers?
• To what extent might you already have some of the capabilities that employers are seeking?

Understanding what it means to lead well in the modern workplace has long been at the heart of organisational and business research, not least because it’s often seen as critical to a firm’s strategic capability.

But where do notions of ‘good leadership’ actually come from? And to what extent is it about ‘who you are’ (your character) or ‘what you do’ (your behaviour/ skills)?

The political, business and policy terrain is replete with so called ‘heroic leaders’ who have successfully managed to deploy their charisma and skills in order to lead the way.

That is, until their organisations or firms collapse...! As the CIPD’s (2022) recent ‘Workplace Incivility’ guidance suggests, it’s clear that as we emerge out of the recent Covid19 pandemic, leading the way for 21st Century business is as much about ‘who we are’ (our character) and ‘what we do’ (the behaviours and skills we use) as it is the ‘way that we do it’.

Join us in this training session for an exploration of leadership for social good, to learn more about ways of conceiving modern leadership, and to begin reflecting on the sorts of capabilities you already have!

Trainer Biography: This training will be co-facilitated by Dr Alyson Nicholds, Director of Leadership Learning Ltd. Alyson is A Place Leadership Scholar with a background in Professional Practice; she set up Leadership Learning to help academics and professionals make sense of the myriad ways of leading for social good.

Employing novel techniques involving critical reflexivity and discourse, Alyson works with future senior leaders through executive development and higher degree apprenticeships to build their strategic capability in implementing the processes and practices of leadership in complex times. Her work is published in leading business and policy journals, submitted as part of the recent assessment of research excellence (REF 2022). 

This training is designed to help you:

• Conceptualise what ‘leadership’ means in the modern world
• Recognise what types of leadership skills are valued by employers, and why
• Identify how you may have already developed some of these skills through your postgraduate studies & other experiences
• Demonstrate their leadership skills in applications and interviews