Provocative Leadership

Course Dates: 15^th October, 5^th November, 26^th November & 10^th December

Member Rate: €895.00

What’s it about?

One of the biggest challenges facing managers in today’s organisations is helping people to do what they need in order to reach the organisation’ goals and objectives. Unfortunately, many leaders who are well skilled in managing the tasks and functions with which their businesses engage, are ill equipped to handle the people side of their enterprises – the “soft stuff”.

Simply put, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff”.

Starting from the perspective that “Leadership Development is Self-Development”, this programme explores the development of leadership as a personal learning journey. Utilising a range of learning methods and activities drawn from the fields of personality psychology, behaviour change and emotion management, the programme provides participants with the self-understandings and skills to enable them to achieve enhanced capacity to engage successfully with workplace colleagues in organisation, team or individual settings.

Delivered through four modules, interwoven with in-depth coaching and practical leadership interventions, the programme explores key behaviours and intelligences that characterise leadership effectiveness.

What will I gain from this Programme?

• Recognise the central relationship between leadership and lifelong learning
• Undertake a Leadership Learning assessment
• Explore the links between personality and personal leadership capability
• Complete an individual Personality Type Assessment
• Experience the process of observing leadership as it is deployed in practice
• Understand the significance of developing powerful relationships in team environments
• Undertake a Team Role Assessment
• Complete an Emotional Effectiveness Assessment
• Understand and be able to enhance your emotional and social effectiveness as a leader in your organisation

What’s Involved?

The Provocative Leadership programme is delivered over a four-month period in the following format:

• Module 1 – Leadership & Learning – 1 Day
• Module 2 – The Personality of Leadership – 1 Day
• One-to-one leadership coaching session – 1½- 2 hours
• Interactive Leadership Experience – 1 Day
• Module 3 – Leading Teams that Work – 1 Day
• Module 4 - Emotionally Effective Leadership – 1 Day
• One-to-one leadership coaching session - 1½- 2 hours

Leading with Emotional Effectiveness

Course Dates: 13^th October & 10^th November

Member Rate: €495.00

What’s it about?

For leaders and potential leaders, developing our capacity for emotional and social effectiveness is considered as a crucial component for our capacity to influence and motivate.

Indeed there is strong research evidence that suggests that the success potential of leaders and managers in organisations, is significantly determined by how we regard ourselves, how we relate to others and how we respond to the demands of daily life.

And in terms of our capacity to function effectively as managers or leaders, this means that our potential for success is related to our ability to act purposefully, so as to deal effectively with the challenges we face every day, and in turn influence those whom we seek to lead, to build personal resilience, excellent interpersonal relationships and outstanding levels of workplace performance.

The Leading with Emotional Effectiveness programme provides participants with the understanding and capability to develop their social and emotional skills, thereby advancing their ability to influence others towards achievement of high levels of personal and professional effectiveness.

What will I gain from this Programme?

• Recognise the impact of emotional & social awareness on work processes and relationships
• Identify how the key functions of leadership are enriched through the application of emotional and social effectiveness techniques
• Understand Emotional Effectiveness Competencies and how to develop them
• Align emotional effectiveness competencies with leadership functions, using the EQi-2.0 Leadership Report
• Understand how to create a workplace culture that delivers performance results through effective relationships
• Be in a position to lead more emotionally effective teams
• Use emotional effectiveness to advance personal development, improve work relationships, and contribute to significantly enhanced business outcomes
• Build a developmental action plan designed to strengthen your personal emotional effectiveness

What’s Involved?

The Leading with Emotional Effectiveness programme is delivered over a one-month period in the following format:

• Pre Programme completion of the EQi-2.0TM Assessment Instrument
• Day 1 – Understanding Leadership & Emotional Effectiveness
• Individually scheduled one-to-one coaching session with a programme facilitator, during which the results of the EQi-2.0TM Assessment are analysed and strategies for development explored
• Day 2 – Developing your Individual Emotional Leadership Effectiveness

Webinar: How to check if your Chinese Business Partner is Legitimate, 4th August, 09.00 GMT

Conducting proper due diligence is one of the essential steps that European SMEs need to take before engaging in business with partners in China. By conducting due diligence, it will help you avoid business scams and identify a more reliable partner for your business in the Chinese market. During this free webinar, you will learn how to perform basic due diligence yourself and where to get help, as well as practical advice from legal, financial and operational perspectives. 

The speaker at this webinar will be given by Rogier van Bijnen, Head of R&P China Lawyers’ Beijing Office. Rogier has been working as a lawyer in China since 2009. He focuses on assisting foreign companies who do business in or with China. His areas of expertise include corporate/mergers and acquisitions (including joint ventures), commercial contracts, IP, employment and dispute resolution. R&P is a Chinese law firm with about 25 PRC licensed lawyers and has offices in Beijing and Shanghai. As a Chinese law firm, R&P is allowed to advise on PRC law and represent clients in Chinese courts.

After the webinar, you will:   

• Be aware of the most popular scams in China at the moment;
• Be able to check whether your counterpart really exists;
• Understand how to properly execute a contract in China;
• Know which sources are available to verify financial information;
• Learn some basic techniques to carry out operational due diligence.

To sign up for this free webinar, click here. 

Ocean Energy Europe, 19th-21st October, Croke Park, Dublin

Business France, the French Embassy’s Trade Department, will host B2B meetings at the Ocean Energy Europe Conference. It will aim to offer European companies, research organisations, and state agencies, the opportunity to meet potential cooperation and business partners.

Ocean Energy Europe is the trade association for ocean renewables in Europe and has almost 100 members. Its members comprise of some of the world’s leading utilities companies, engineering companies, device developers and research institutes. The 2015 conference will feature:

• Attendees from industry, research, and government bodies
• Government representatives and EU representatives
• Over 50 exhibiting companies

To book your place at this event click here or for further information, contact christine.deniel@businessfrance.fr

Innovate Connect Transform, 20th-22nd October, Lisbon, Portugal

At Innovate Connect Transform (ICT) 2015 you can learn more about the European Commission’s newest policies and initiatives in the field of ICT. You can also witness the results and impact of some of the most recent EU ICT research and innovation initiatives. In addition, the event will offer possibilities for networking, and opportunities for learning about the latest ICT Work Programme.

In particular, the event will include the following:

• A conference programme with plenary sessions and thematic parallel streams. The different sessions will touch upon various topics regarding ICT.
• Networking sessions bringing together potential proposers, thus allowing them to discuss ideas and create new or build on existing partnerships.
• Exhibits showing some of the outcomes of research and innovation initiatives funded by the European Commission. Participants in the event will be able to experience to what extent ICT research and innovation could contribute to a future Europe.
• A start-ups and innovation forum: As start-ups and entrepreneurship are important for ICT research and innovation, a mix of thematic sessions and networking actions, especially targeting such initiatives,is being organised.
• Involvement of students: A group of students from all over Europe will be invited to actively participate in various parts of the event.
• Up-to-date information about the new ICT Work Programme 2016-17 and its opportunities.

To register your free place at this event, click here.  

For further information on the above opportunities, contact Katherine@corkchamber.ie