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Understanding Leader Development

Accelerated Learning Laboratory @ UWA

Struggling to develop your leaders fast enough? Need managers who think ahead, handle complexity, and cope with ambiguity? Want supervisors who ensure safe working without stifling production, or technical experts who also have people skills? Seeking staff who communicate effectively across cultures?

For innovative insights into these and related leadership challenges, take a look at the Accelerated Learning Laboratory at The University of Western Australia (ALL@UWA) – a world-class research facility for developing leaders, managers, and professionals across all types of organisations.

ALL@UWA is part of a prestigious network of similar facilities at the Australian Graduate School of Management (Sydney) and at Melbourne Business School. Our mission is to conduct leading-edge research on topics such as safety, leadership, well-being, and performance, and to run innovative leadership programs.

A focus on accelerated developmentIt is a strategic challenge for organisations to develop people sufficiently quickly to carry out leadership roles. At the same time, organisations are more complex, raising the performance bar for leaders. Using an innovative set of technologies, software, and materials, ALL@UWA creates a

Leading with impact

“The ALL@UWA is the ideal way for people to synthesise their learning into action. Learning in a traditional way doesn’t offer the sort of 360° feedback and learning that this environment can provide. Video of performance is a particularly powerful learning tool. You do it. You see it. You internalise the learning.”

Elena DouglasConvenor, Centre for Social Impact, UWA Business School

dynamic learning environment to accelerate development. By creating opportunities for people to perform at their maximum level, instead of their typical level, ‘jumps’ in development can occur. Feedback, in combination with a safe but stimulating learning environment, further speeds the growth of expertise. Principles derived from decades of research on learning are built into our programs.

Our leadership programsWe offer customised programs on a range of topics. Illustrative suites of topics include:

Ì Leadership Fundamentals, e.g. managing one’s self, leading others, and leading change;

Ì Leading Teams, e.g. team design, team motivation and cross-cultural communication;

Ì Leading for Innovation, e.g. creativity and proactivity;

Ì Leading for Safety, e.g. process safety and resilience.

DistinctivenessAll of our leadership programs provide a mixture of traditional and experiential learning approaches, with the latter involving simulations

“360° feedback and learning”

and real-world case studies. Unique aspects of our programs include:

Ì Developing individuals’ mental models of complex situations to promote deep learning;

Ì Going beyond the ‘what’ of leadership (behaviours) to focus on the ‘how’ and ‘why’;

Ì Explicit recognition of the role of individual differences in learning;

Ì Regular dynamic feedback; Ì Practical coaching in execution

skills to ensure application; Ì Long-term development rather

than one-shot training days; Ì Incorporation of research into

design and content.

Our facilityThe ALL@UWA is hosted in a newly-renovated facility on the beautiful UWA campus in Crawley, Perth. The laboratory contains state-of-the-art equipment with interactive smart boards and premium digital video recording equipment that enables facilitators to engage interactively with participants. ALL@UWA uses advanced software to capture data dynamically so that personalised feedback can be delivered to participants.

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Opportunities for your BusinessALL@UWA will be fully operational in 2012. We are now accepting expressions of interest from organisations.

Contact us if you are interested in improving your organisation in the following areas:

Ì Leader Development Ì Safety Leadership Ì Proactivity and Innovation Ì Decision Making Ì Communication Skills Ì Organisational Health Ì Team Effectiveness Ì Work Design Ì Motivation Ì Self-regulation Ì Thinking Styles Ì Cross-cultural Communication

Contact Lena WangTel: +61 8 6488 7072Email: lena.wang@uwa.edu.au

Leadership TeamThe University of Western AustraliaProfessor Mark Griffin (Co-Director, ALL@UWA)Mark is a Professor of Organisational Psychology with extensive experience in Australia, the USA, and Europe, investigating topics such as employee safety and well-being, organisational health, and advanced statistics. He currently holds a renowned Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship in the area of safety leadership, and is an Associate Editor for prestigious journals.

Professor Sharon Parker (Co-Director, ALL@UWA)Sharon is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at UWA Business School and a leading scholar in topics such as work design, employee proactivity, and motivation. She is an ARC Future Fellow, one of only two in Australia in the field of business, and has attracted over $4,000,000 in research and industry funds.

Melbourne Business SchoolProfessor Robert Wood (Founder of the ALL network)Bob is a Professor of Management in the Melbourne Business School and is renowned for the application of self-regulation research to the topic of leader development. As the developer of the ALL network, Bob is actively involved in ALL@UWA.

Existing Industry Partners for ALL in Sydney and Melbourne

“In my first week back at the office, there was a task that I normally don’t enjoy that I pushed myself to do … and it just happened … (The ALL) was exhausting, challenging, energising, and refreshing.”

Corporate HR, Qantas

“(The ALL) provides a safe environment for early learning, to experiment, take risks, and make mistakes.”

Insurance Australia Group

“To experiment, take risks, and make mistakes”

The University of Western Australia

Accelerated Learning LaboratoryThe University of Western AustraliaM304, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009Tel: +61 8 6488 7072Mobile: +61 450 710 176 Fax: +61 8 6488 1006 Email: lena.wang@uwa.edu.auALL.uwa.edu.au

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