7-Day Regional Leadership Development Program
Our program’s design gradually builds, deepens, and broadens your leadership skills, ensuring a smooth progression and practical application of what you learn.
How does it work?
Our inside-out approach fosters a ripple effect of leadership action through:
RLDP reshapes the journey to impactful leadership by enhancing self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and personal resilience. This empowers participants to establish a solid foundation for leading others and overcoming complex challenges. With hands-on learning experiences, practical leadership exercises, and real-world case studies, the program equips participants with the tools to motivate teams, foster meaningful change, and support regional growth.
The program concludes with an engaging regional leadership activation event, uniting current participants with alumni from 2023, 2024, and the ARLF Changemaker Series.
Topics Covered
Leading Self (Self-Awareness):
- Developing self-awareness of personal preferences and the importance of feedback and personal disclosure.
- Identifying individual strengths and values.
- Exploring the role of cognitive bias, unconscious beliefs and perspectives on the way we navigate the world and show up as leaders.
- Exploring the power of networking and learning from others.
- Creating brave spaces that embrace diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Leading Self (Personal Resilience):
- Exploring human needs theory and how these needs shape our feelings, thoughts and behaviours.
- Building emotional literacy and understanding emotions.
- Understanding stress and its impact on our performance.
- Recognising the impact of trauma on our window of tolerance to stress and change.
- Deepening self-awareness of creative and reactive tendencies.
- Exploring the science of habits and how to make behaviour change stick.
Leading Others (Hearts and Minds):
- Reflecting on personal behaviour change progress and our own Immunity to Change.
- Developing deep listening with curiosity, compassion and courage. (head, heart, hands)
- Harnessing the power of complaints to reveal commitments to change.
- Connecting with others through purpose and the art and science of storytelling.
- Recognising the intention and reality gap and how to build trust.
- Leading courageous conversations and providing feedback.
Leading Others (Influencing Behaviour):
- Understanding the difference between technical and adaptive challenges
- Applying the Integral Framework to coordinate multiple stakeholder perspectives.
- Utilising concepts to work out who to influence and how.
- Understanding the drama triangle in group dynamics (and on committees!)
- Developing your capacity to be a Coach.
Leading Change (Being a Changemaker):
- Considering the difference between leadership and authority
- Orienting for change by considering how history has shaped our region
- Applying adaptive leadership and systems thinking to adaptive challenges in our region
- Exploring the power of reforming the problem as a potential
- Applying human-centered design and action learning to generate innovation probes
Leading Change (Collective Action):
- Exploring what we can learn from local change makers
- Considering how changemaker archetypes can support effective collective leadership
- Exploring the power of vulnerability in asking for what you need and offering what you can
- Understanding change leadership and how to bring people along
- Preparing for the graduation event
