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Mapping Your Leadership Development
Through a co-creative process with delegates, this workshop will locate the leadership challenge within the changing higher education environment. By building directly upon delegates experiences as women working in this sector, the workshop will explore the state of leadership and the consequences thereof and will proceed to ask: How can this be addressed? Having laid that foundation the workshop will explore new and current approaches to leadership development in a practical way. The very real challenges of developing leadership in the HE environment will not be overlooked, but tackled head-on. This workshop will develop practical leadership skills that fit the new paradigm of leading in the sector by exploring how these tools can be applied by women working in higher education.
Prior to attending the mini-ACADEMY delegates will be required to submit a summarized description of a leadership project they are currently involved in or would like to be involved in at their institution. This workshop will provide delegates with an opportunity to work on their leadership project that will benefit from focused attention given to it in a supportive learning environment.
This workshop will allow delegates to:
Lesedi Makurane is a qualified coach and organisational development specialist with broad international experience. His practice focuses on emerging markets and SADC and he has clients in the UK, Botswana, Senegal, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Mozambique and Angola amongst others. Over the last 10 years his assignments have ranged from restructuring, talent strategies, organisational development; strategy implementation, service delivery improvement, performance management, retention studies and new venture creation, and developing dedicated pools of internal coaches. Locally his clients include Standard Bank, Cadiz Financial Strategists, Schering Plough, City of Joburg, Wits Business School, UWC, UJ, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Metropolitan, Allan Gray, Auditor General’s Office, BP Angola, The International Finance Corporation, Parliament and ENGEN. Lesedi’s practice deliberately makes a social contribution (discounted rates or bro bono) to communities, couples, politicians, teachers, learners, youth at risk, child care workers and nurses.
Lesedi is also an experienced teacher, and is a part time lecturer at Stellenbosch Business School (MBA), Wits Business School (MAP & BECC), the Da Vinci Institute (MSC in TIPS / Coaching and i-Coach Academy (Masters in Coaching). Since 2004 Lesedi has taught and assessed Coaching & Mentoring students at Certificate, Diploma & Masters levels here and abroad, and has consistently received an over 90% rating making him amongst the top teachers in the field. Due to his pedigree in facilitating learning, Wits business School recently choose him to facilitate the a prestigious and prominent national pool of business leaders through a one year mentoring programme. Lesedi was until June 2010 Head of Organisational Design & Development at UCT.
Lesedi has a Bachelor of Arts in Economic History and Philosophy, (University of Zimbabwe, 1991); a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Information Systems, University of Cape Town, 1999; and a Masters in Communications (emphasis in Cybernetics), (University of Leicester 1995). He is currently at submission stage for a Professional Doctorate in Coaching (DPROF) with International Centre for the Study of Coaching (ICSC), based at University of Middlesex’s Centre for Work-based Learning Partnerships (NCWBLP) in the UK.
Engaging Individual and Institutional Diversity
Neuroscience has made extraordinary strides since the very late 20th century, when technologies were developed for mapping brain usage patterns in real-time. However, only very recently have sex differences in the brain been isolated. So far neuroscientists have confirmed over a hundred differences between male and female brains. As these studies emerge, the basis for gender definitions can be linked more closely to brain/body science and not just to the conditioning that emerges from cultural roles.
Although societal institutions are slow to change, becoming aware of the range of our innate gender differences can help us to understand ourselves and the opposite sex, make better decisions together, and generally relate more easily. Not only does this knowledge affect our personal relationships with partners and family, it also allows us to interact more effectively in the sphere of work with colleagues, students and teams.
In this workshop delegates will understand what makes women unique by gaining insights on:
In this highly interactive workshop each delegate will also engage in a practical application of various tools and methodologies which will empower her to find greater freedom to express her voice as a woman and as a thought leader.
Mary Ovenstone, a frequent guest on radio and TV, is a Canadian-trained counsellor for individuals and couples, as well as an international workshop presenter and public speaker. Drawing on her own executive career in the USA and Canada as a Corporate Communications professional and on her South African Diploma in Business Coaching, she also practices as an Executive Coach and corporate workshop presenter. She has consulted and conducted large-scale corporate interventions both in South Africa and Canada. Having lived in South Africa for a total of 25 years, and with a particular interest in tribal shamanic traditions, she brings to her work an appreciation of the various cultures that make up this country.
After years of exploration and study, Mary utilizes a Jungian framework in her counselling and combines a variety of emotional processing tools with conventional psychotherapy. As a coach she uses her understanding of human nature to provide her clients with a fertile thinking space to address life and business issues. She has a life-long interest in how men and women relate at different life stages, and across genders. She is currently writing a thesis, on the differences between the male and female brain, to complete her M.Phil in Management Coaching at the University of Stellenbosch Business School.
Understanding the Higher Education Environment
“Our styles of thinking rarely match the increasingly complex worlds in which we work; therefore we need to commit ourselves to the ongoing pursuit of multiple and more fruitful ways of knowing. “ David Cooperrider, AI Founder.
This interactive 3 ½ hour workshop will focus on learning, understanding and applying the basic AI methodology as a skilful tool and process that will allow delegates to understand the HE environment in a manner where a variety of challenges can be addressed with astounding positive results.
AI is about the co-evolutionary search for the best within people, their organisations, their processes and relevant world around them. A.I. asks the questions that strengthen a systems capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential. AI can be applied to strategic goals, action plans, agreements, consensus statements, core principles and practices, strategic plans, vision and mission statements, values, branding strategies, marketing messages, and qualitative evaluations. The outcomes are determined both by the topic or focus of the inquiry and in the dynamic of the inquiry as it happens.
An A.I. process is based on the perspective of:
This workshop will interrogate and apply:
Siddeeq Railoun is the founder and co-owner of Collaborative Change Consulting Services with three Black women partners. He also occupies the position of Global Marketing Director for Vision Activ a multi-national software company. As a youth and teacher activist he managed a National Education NGO until he became a consultant and lecturer in 1996.
He completed his undergraduate studies in Education and Industrial Psychology at Hewat Training College and UWC. All post graduate studies were completed at Brandeis University in the USA, specialising in Social Policy and Social Change. His PhD focuses on Affirmative Action in SA organisations. He has been awarded numerous scholarships in the USA.
His work experience of 25 years spans the areas of learning methodologies, transformation, leadership and organisational development. As a consultant, motivational speaker, trainer and advisor to Universities, Public Service and Corporate he delivered in the areas of diversity, multiculturalism, EE, AA, communication, critical human skills and policy development in Africa and USA. He specialises in developing indigenous models and strategies for the SA business environment and has authored a number of training manuals.
He leads the Managerial Leadership Development portfolio of the BMF since 2007, as a coach and mentor to members. He has helped in the development and establishment of numerous community women entrepreneurial projects for Project People Foundation (NY) through the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, African Project Development Facility and DDB World Wide Communications Group.
He is passionate about personal social responsibility and is involved in a number of community initiatives and educational institutions, ploughing back on a volunteer basis, his time, knowledge and financial support.
Planning and Leading Change
“We cannot solve the problems we have at the level of thinking that created them” –
Albert Einstein
Much excitement and commitment to becoming change agents would have been generated by the richness of all the workshops offered in the 2012 mini-ACADEMY programme. This closing session seeks to support participants to translate what has been most impactful for them into a lived reality in their individual higher education contexts.
How might you be able to remain grounded and committed as you step back into the unknown? When so much is at stake, and when what we are committed to has never before happened, when we are engaged in leading people and projects that are envisioning a new future, the truth is that we do not know what to do. When we think we do, for any great length of time, we are probably in danger of limiting what is possible and confining the future to be an extension of the past.
Everything we do depends on the thinking we do about it first. In this closing session participants therefore be provided time to think about their learning experience of the previous days and the next steps to be taken when they re-enter the sphere of work. This closing session therefore seeks to:
This final session on the programme will ensure that the joy, enthusiasm and energy generated from the mini-ACADEMY will remain with participants as a guiding light in their way forward as potent change agents within higher education.
Candice Smith is a coach, facilitator and leadership development consultant whose expertise lies in partnering individuals and groups to generate their best thinking, feeling and being - to unleash their own inner expert - in order to produce the best outcomes. Through the company BraveHeart which she owns with her partner Trisha Lord she creates sustainable Thinking Environments by cultivating courage in individuals, groups and organisations.
Trained and accredited by Nancy Kline, President of Time to Think Inc and author of Time to Think and More Time To Think, Candice is a passionate teacher of the Thinking Environment methodology and way of being to individuals and groups. The Thinking Environment has identified the key factor in our ability to think well for ourselves and think well together as how we are being treated by the people around us while we are thinking. The core leadership skill for which the world is crying out is the ability to treat each other well, in order for us to think well about the challenges facing us at this pivotal point in our evolution. Candice’s expertise lies in enabling others to create an environment which restores a sense of humanity in the workplace to enable transformation at an individual, systemic and global level.
Candice’s clients include: ACSA, Cape Gateway, Engen, National Department of Education, NMMU, Metropolitan, Old Mutual, Parliament of South Africa, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, SAPIA, SA Metal, South African History Archive, SAB Miller, Sanlam, Sanlam Investment Management, Standard Bank of South Africa, Table Mountain Aerial Cableway, Vaal University of Technology, Western Cape Provincial Department of Local Government and Housing