IWC-AWA Team Leadership course

Project Description

This course aims to provide water professionals with a modular, online training course to build understanding, skills and confidence in the following areas:

• Building the capacity of new team leaders through understanding key leadership methods and principles.

• Awareness of the methods and principles of leadership development that new team leaders need to apply to their own development.

• An understanding of, and the ability to apply the fundamentals of, self-leadership which is the foundation of all other forms of leadership.

• The ability to apply fundamental team leadership concepts and tools to common team leadership challenges.

• Awareness of, and the capacity to apply, the keys to successful team leadership, including leading virtual teams and teams that need to be led without much authority (e.g. cross-boundary project teams).

• The ability to build a simple leadership development plan to guide one’s development.

• The capacity to reflect on the content of the course to identify team leadership-related strengths, weaknesses and specific opportunities to improve.

Project Personnel and Beneficiaries

Emerging water leaders across all aspects of the water industry in Australia

Outcomes to Date

Since 2022 over 101 participants have completed this leadership training.

All participants complete the course by creating a clear leadership development plan to improve their water leadership attributes over the coming year. Feedback from participants has indicated that the course was very useful and practical for leadership development.