The Six Leadership Conversations

Update March 18: This session is currently full. Those registering at will be placed on the waitlist.

This is a two-part session and attendance at both parts is required. Part 1 will be held on Tuesday, March 19 from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Part 2 will be held on Tuesday, March 26 from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM.

The Six Leadership Conversations focuses on building essential competencies to help you as a leader have six necessary conversations at work.

Your effectiveness as a leader is directly linked to the way you communicate. The health of your department and organization is a reflection of the type of conversations managers and employees have, in meetings and around the water cooler.   

This is a live participatory Zoom session that will run from 9:00 until 12:00pm. The session will include small breakout room discussions, large group discussions and activities, and in-session exercises.

Purpose

The Six Leadership Conversations is an interactive workshop featuring six essential conversations to help you build your influence and make a difference when you communicate:

1. The Listening Conversation—how to listen to understand and empathize. Develop your competence using a four-step process for deep listening by parking judgment, listening to understand and responding with empathy.
2. The Learning Conversation—how to facilitate learning conversations. Help colleagues and employees come to insight as you foster learning by asking insightful questions. Learn how to use an effective three-step process to help others take ownership of responsibilities.
3. The Feedback Conversation—how to give, receive and request feedback. Develop your self-awareness and build your credibility by learning how to ask for feedback from colleagues and provide feedback to those who report to you.
4. The Necessary Conversation—how to have proactive, necessary conversations. Develop your emotional agility and conversational intelligence as you learn how to use your authentic voice to communicate clearly, help minimize misunderstandings and have real dialogue without damaging relationships.
5. The Care Conversation—how to have a have a respectful, empathic, and kind conversation with a colleague who is showing signs of being under undue stress, feeling overwhelmed and not coping with simple tasks or avoiding certain people at work. 
6. The Mentoring Conversation—how to coach for results and performance. Learn how to use an extremely flexible and powerful mentoring map that provides a structure for mentoring conversations and conversations about performance.

FACILITATOR

Dene Rossouw, Principal & Learning Coach, Possibil.com

Dene is Principal and Learning Coach at team Possibil. He has facilitated hundreds of programs for various organizations in Africa and Canada and is known for his ability to demystify complexity and explain processes using transferable concepts and dynamic models.

Dene brings an eclectic background to the table: he’s been a paratrooper and preacher and is currently a learning coach and a wildlife photographer at Fotomoods.com.

Dene is the author of A Complicated Love and Credible – The Six Leadership Conversations and the co-creator of Back.Chat, the anti-bullying web app.

Each experience has provided a rich backdrop to his approach to inviting possibility and building influence through the power of authentic dialogue, persuasive writing and compelling storytelling.

Registration

Update March 18: This session is currently full. Those registering at will be placed on the waitlist.

This is a live participatory Zoom session that will run from 9:00 until 12:00pm. The session will include small breakout room discussions, large group discussions and activities, and in-session exercises.

Registration in this session is required and is now open. Those successfully registered will receive a registration confirmation within one week of the session date.

NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

This session will be held online via Zoom.

PDFO EVENT COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The PDFO has created a community agreement for our events in order to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment in which all event attendees feel safe and supported.

By participating in a PDFO event, we commit ourselves to:

• Treating one another with kindness, courtesy and respect in all interactions;
• Engaging in gracious, active listening and valuing others’ opinions;
• Not dominating discussions so that others can share during the session;
• Ensuring that any potentially confidential or sensitive information shared as part of the session is not shared outside of the session;
• Actively participating in the session; and
• In online sessions, when possible and if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.
• If comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.