Workshops
The Rising Stars programme includes interactive workshops led by eminent contributors from industry, commerce and academia. Below you can find out more about the sessions.
Judgement Index and Leadership Styles
These sessions will cover the following topics:
Judgement Index Feedback
Delegates will take a deep dive into their individual strengths, potential development areas and possible frustration points through their Judgement Index assessment results.
Communication Styles
A closer look at different communication styles and how they can be used to influence and lead teams.
The Performance Spiral
Bringing the day together with a holistic look at how mindset, emotions and behaviour impact on performance, with techniques that can be applied in the workplace and in day-to-day life.
Tutor: Sophie Coulthard
Sophie works with organisations to support the selection, development and wellbeing of staff using the Judgement Index assessment. She is passionate about improving company culture and creating positive working environments that support individuals and teams to thrive.
She has led research with projects organisations using the Judgement Index to look at the value-based behaviours of the participants and works with other sectors such as social care, professional sport and hospitality.
Sophie’s passion is with wellbeing after seeing the impact it has on workplace performance. She speaks regularly on developing workplace wellbeing and culture and launched her own off-shoot company AxioGrow last year.
Sophie sits on the board of the Hartman Institute, which promotes the value-science of Axiology that sits at the heart of the Judgement Index assessment.
Click here to connect with Sophie on LinkedIn.
Developing as a Major Project Leader
Step beyond excellent project management and learn to lead the complex, high-stakes programmes that shape our world. In this interactive workshop you will:
- Adapt your leadership style using practical tools that match project shape and culture.
- Discover the core mind-set and competencies of major-project leadership, including the “incomplete leader” approach.
- Map your transition from manager to leader—identifying the skills to drop, delegate, enhance and gain.
- Craft a realistic development roadmap that turns insight into sustained action.
- Leave with tools, a development plan and a cohort of peers ready to support your next step.
Tutor: Donnie MacNicol
Donnie has over 35 years’ experience, the last 10 of which have focused on developing the programme and portfolio delivery capability of public and private sector organisations. He is currently supporting The Crown Estate as a Programme Director and doing advisory work on giga-projects in Australia and estates functions in the UK. His focus is primarily on infrastructure clients who are looking to adopt more collaborative and integrated ways of working.
Donnie has broad expertise allowing him to develop the necessary behaviours, collaborative structures and capabilities to support clients to make the changes necessary to be a capable owner. Donnie is a leader in providing leaders and teams with insight from human-centric data to improve decision making. He is also the Co-Chair of the Project Data Analytics Task Force and is actively involved in a range of groups developing the latest thinking in the projects world. Donnie has broad experience of developing leaders and teams.
Click here to connect with Donnie on LinkedIn.
