A crisis can strike a company anytime, anywhere. Leaders must face challenges that appear overnight and then rapidly evolve throughout the course of just one day.
The history of leadership has taught us many things but as our world changes, so too does our concept and understanding of leadership. Irrespective of how you define a leader, great leadership can prove to be a difference maker between success and failure.
Rhetoric has progressed from the 19th century belief that leadership is an inherited trait, to more a modern approach into how tasks, situations, organisations and environmental factors can influence great leadership.
It is now generally acknowledged that leadership is not innate, but rather it can be learned and developed.
With the world rapidly changing, and the COVID pandemic throwing every individual unique challenges, leaders have had to adjust to making urgent, honest, and iterative decisions, recognizing that mistakes will happen, but acknowledging them and correcting course, is much more important than assigning blame and, or, not making any decisions.
In addition, all great modern leaders need to be able to consider and value the myriad of diverse perspectives, cultures, people, values and behaviours within their workforce.
Safetrac is incredibly proud to partner with former Australian Defence Force Major Matina Jewell (Retired) to deliver her ground-breaking online Leadership in Action courses.
Matina earned her military accolades in some of the toughest environments on earth.
Her courageous decision-making, dutiful leadership style and purpose driven approach to building resilience in teams to thrive through change continues to be transformative for leading organisations, globally.
Matina has been a Prime Ministerial advisor and remains a highly sought-after as a leadership strategist and an in-demand International keynote speaker for over a decade.
My experience in the military taught me what it is like to lead people under pressure in some of the toughest environments on earth, and the Leadership in Action Series applies those learnings to the challenges facing the modern-day workplace.”
– Matina Jewell
Matina’s life-changing lessons from the front-line provide an alternate and unique perspective on leadership, resilience and change.
Unlike any other leadership training in the market, the Leadership in Action Series is aimed at equipping employees at all stages of their leadership journey with the capabilities to deal with increasingly complex and rapidly-changing operating environments.
The courses will instruct learners on how to drive effective leadership, build organisational performance, and develop skills to thrive in leadership roles.
Topics include:
- Sudden Leadership: Dinner with a warlord; stepping-up to ‘sudden’ leadership opportunities;
- Delegation: Off to war… with no manual; empowering delegation to get more done;
- Communication: 1000 troops, pitch black, no radios; communicating with clarity;
- Connection: 2 years at sea; building workplace connection;
- Decision: Fighter jet attack inbound; decision-making to manage risk under pressure; and
- Dutiful Leadership: The honour & privilege; adopting a Dutiful leadership style.
We may not know what is coming around the corner, but we can learn to respond in ways that have the highest chance of leading to positive outcomes.
There is no better time than now to demonstrate that investing training time into developing our current and future leaders with the skills to lead and make decisions, using the tools and information they have available at the time.
