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Your Leadership Journey
Graduates are welcomed as Alumni in a
supportive network, with opportunities
for ongoing connection and contribution
to LV and pro bono work through our
GreatConnections and social impact
programs.
Schedule:
• Opening retreat: February 18, 19, 20
• March: 18, 19 (day, Melbourne)
• April: 15, 16, & 27 (evening, Melbourne)
• Regional field trip: May 13, 14
• June: 17, 18, & 29 (evening, Melbourne)
• July: 15, 16, & 27 (evening, Melbourne)
• Canberra field trip: August 17, 18
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How to Apply
Applications for 2016 Williamson
open 1 May 2015. Available places are
limited. Selection based on merit,
experience and field of expertise is
by application, interview and referee
check.
Complete the electronic application
form on the Leadership Victoria
website.
leadershipvictoria.org/programs/
williamson-community-leadershipprogram
• September: 16, 17
• October: 14, 15, & 26 (evening)
• Closing retreat: November 11, 12
LEADERSHIP VICTORIA
• Graduation Dinner: 26 November
Level 2, Old Treasury Building
2016 dates are correct at time of printing
and may change.
Melbourne VIC 3000
20 Spring Street
Investment:
Ph: 03 9651 6590
The fee for this program comprises both an
organisational component and a participant
component:
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• Organisational contribution
- Standard: $13,695.00 incl. GST
- NFP: $10,835.00 incl. GST
PLUS
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Williamson Community
Leadership Program
Now in its 25th year, the Williamson Community Leadership
Program (WCLP) offers one of Australia’s most sought-after
leadership development experiences.
This rigorous ten-month experiential
program uses the Harthills Leadership
Development Profile, seven stages
of consciousness and Harvard
methodologies in adaptive leadership and
group relations to examine your current
leadership style, strengths and areas
for development. At the same time, this
unique program exposes you to a range
of diverse experiences, guest speakers
and contributors, including your peers in
the room, to explore the social, economic
and environmental issues, and their
leadership challenges, which influence
and impact the community and our
operating environment.
Bring these two streams together in a
collaborative, challenge-based learning
project and workplace activities to stretch
and test your leadership in action.
Who it is for
Established and high-potential leaders in established careers from all spheres of business,
non-profit and government who:
• Are seeking to broaden their horizons through a unique personal and professional development
approach
• Are identified as high potential in roles requiring more than traditional management
competencies to achieve organisational objectives
• Are open to possibilities; and have a commitment to personal and professional development, to
learning from others and new experiences, and to applying their learnings in their personal and
professional lives
• Leaders in general management or executive positions; Individuals who are at the forefront of
innovation; Cross-functional integration leaders
• Have a genuine interest in civic engagement and the desire to be proactive
• Individual contribution: $1,870.00 incl. GST
Optional Extra: WCLP PLUS
• Standard: $3,245 inc GST
• NFP: $2,916 inc GST
Limited NFP Scholarships are also available
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What you will learn
Inclusions
This rigorous ten-month experiential program includes
an opening and closing residential retreat, a series of
monthly workshops and seminars, evening sessions,
field trips to regional Victoria and Canberra, and a
formal program graduation. Drawing on the experience
of our expert facilitator, a range of dynamic guest
speakers and a diverse group of peers in the room, you
will explore:
• 10 month facilitated program including two full
days per month and four evenings, on-site visits, guest
speakers and professional development sessions
• Leadership: Using the Harthills Leadership
Development Profile and seven stages of consciousness
and Harvard methodologies in adaptive leadership and
group relations, examine your current leadership style,
strengths and areas for development
• Vision, Influence and Ethics: Using the LV
leadership framework, reflect on your experiences,
values and assumptions to understand the choices you
make and what is the “right thing to do”, the influences
on attitudes and behaviours; and frameworks for
common purpose and strategic thinking
• Community leadership: Explore the leadership
challenges of social, economic and environmental issues
facing the community; how are these challenges being
addressed? Where are the gaps? What can be learnt
about leadership from others’ experiences, successes
and challenges? How can these leadership learnings be
applied in your role, organisation and sector?
• Accommodation at opening and closing residential
retreats
• Accommodation and travel to field trips to regional
Victoria and Canberra
• Harthills Leadership Development Profile profiling
and debriefing
• Presentation Dinner and Graduation certificate at
program conclusion
• LV Journal
• Pre-reading and program materials
Facilitator
Tony Matthews (WCLP ’10), Manager Leadership
Development, brings a wealth of facilitation
experience to Williamson, together with a diverse
range of specialist guest speakers and contributors.
• Collaboration: Undertake a challenge-based
collaborative project to identify and address an
entrenched community issue and practice applying your
professional skills while exercising leadership without
authority,
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Our Unique Approach
•A framework which draws on the best
leadership development research and practice
from around the world, including Rooke
and Torbert’s Seven Transformations
of Leadership, and elements of adaptive
leadership (Heifetz and Linsky), situational
leadership (Blanchard et al) and emotional
leadership (Goleman et al)
•Adaptive Leadership: understand the
difference between adaptive and technical
leadership, and how to apply adaptive
leadership to change management
•Immunity to Change Process®: learn how
to identify the mindset and behaviours which
become the barriers to change; understand
how to develop a pathway to overcome these
barriers and implement change
•Both horizontal (technical skill development)
and vertical development (increasing the
capacity to learn) through exposure to new and
diverse experiences, people and ideas
•Engaging and varied adult learning
activities and strategies where participants
take ownership, contribute and play a
leadership role, practicing leadership in a safe
environment
•Building learning from the knowledge,
experience and diversity within the group
•Strategies and activities to build the cohort
into a connected peer support group with a
common purpose and trust, which will endure
beyond the program
•Collaborative, challenge-based actionlearning projects
Diving deeply into leadership – WCLP ‘14
In 2014, participants in the Williamson Community Leadership Program enjoyed an
intensive, experiential program that took them on a ‘deep dive’ into leadership in action. The impact for participants has been wide-ranging and long-lasting.
• Networks: Understand the value of building strategic
personal and professional networks
“I can already see this having positive impacts on my capacity to do great work,” says Maria
Cameron, Senior Policy Advisor with the Department of Health and a WCLP ’14 graduate.
“I’ve taken ideas from WCLP and shaped them into suggestions for new ways we can do
things at work. The head of my organisation has responded very positively to one particular
suggestion I made based on my WCLP experience, and I look forward to seeing it take shape
in coming months. I also took on an entrenched workplace issue and tackled it head-on,
which contributed to a positive outcome on this issue for my organisation. I don’t think I
would have pursued it without the support at a critical point from a WCLP colleague.”
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Benefits for
your organisation
• Develops and retains executive talent searching for
opportunities to expand their leadership
Luke Sullivan, General Manager of Asset Management at Orica, says the program has taught
him the importance of leaders thinking outside their own fields.
• Builds and grows networks across the business,
community and government sectors
“I believe it is essential that those with the potential to be great leaders are challenged to
think beyond their immediate domain. The exposure to dissimilar industries and issues of
community ensures that leaders grow beyond their innate abilities, to truly be effective in
leadership roles.”
• Creates a diverse, leadership-orientated culture
• Enhances the self-awareness and skills of leaders
• Improves the networking and acquired diversity of
leaders
”I work in a global corporate organisation. Williamson has brought a balanced perspective
of the challenges of not-for-profit and government as well as the corporate sector. I see my
efforts going forward maintaining this exposure to all business sectors and Williamson has
instilled a commitment to engage more closely with my communities.”
• Gains practical skills that can be applied across the
organisation
2014 WCLP graduates Maria Cameron and Luke Sullivan.