Indigenous Leadership Masterclass 2025

DAY ONE

8:30 am Registration | 9:00 AM Introductions & Start of Course

09:00 The value and importance of leadership for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

• Exploring Indigenous Leadership

11:00 Navigating Your Career Path

• Explore the things that matter most to you about your work and career;
• Discuss career inhibitors and accelerators;
• Identify your networks for satisfaction and success
  
  

13:00 Effective Communication Skills & Mastering Communication

• Uncover your own communication style
• Using gesture as well as voice to communicate effectively and confidently
• How to leverage different levels of listening to probe issues with tact and depth
• Being clear on intention and framing conversations

15:00 Leadership styles, qualities and behaviours

• The risks and responsibilities of being a leader
• Developing leadership presence: Personal vs position power
• How your values and experiences shape how you show up and how you lead
• How to work with mindset and emotional states to maximise your EQ and move from reaction to response under pressure
• Operate from a place of conscious choice leveraging your personal powers
• Finding work/life balance and navigating your accountabilities in the work environment

DAY TWO

9:00 AM Introductions & Start of Course

09:00 Practical leadership skills

• Negotiating
• Problem solving
• Managing conflict

10:00 Managing conflict & Building Resilience

• Explore the things that matter most to you about your work and career;
• Discuss career inhibitors and accelerators;
• Identify your networks for satisfaction and success
  
  

11:00 Above-the-line thinking & Mindset

• Understanding ‘’cause versus effect’ thinking
• Emotional intelligence, positive and negative emotions
• Evolving your thinking or behaviours to move to a state of curiosity, learning, problem solving and action
  
  

13:30 Understand what is 'leadership presence and how to develop it

• Articulate and practice sharing what you do, how you do it and why you do it, so you have impact on introduction and growing your network
• Discuss obstacles to confidence and leadership presence and how to navigate them
  
  

16:00 Working with power & politics

• Test assumptions and reframe the importance of working with power and politics
• Map your political terrain and conduct a stakeholder analysis;
• Define and practice 11 key influencing strategies to increase your impact
• The principles of systems thinking through exploration of a Whole Systems Mode
• Explore your own individual leadership strengths and how to harness them for success
• Understand what motivates others to maximise your influencing skills
• Understand the importance of empathy and compassion, for yourself and for others