Overview
As a leader, are you cultivating the types of relationships that bring out the best in the people you lead? How effectively do you engage, nurture and inspire others?
A leader’s relationship patterns have a huge impact on the satisfaction, productivity and morale of team members. A recent Gallop survey showed that 50% of employees leave their job because of a poor relationship with their manager. An organisation’s ability to survive and thrive depends on the quality of relationships between leaders and team members.
Unfortunately, although leadership has been studied for decades, existing theories and models aren’t enough. While they all emphasise the importance of relationship skills, they’ve left out a critical element that is the foundation of all relationships: attachment, or the emotional bonds we form with the important people in our lives.
Psychologists first developed attachment theory to study the way we learn how to operate in relationships throughout childhood. More recent research has uncovered the ways our attachment patterns affect our adult friendships and romantic relationships and even the relationships between leaders and team members.
Research shows that leaders displaying behaviours associated with attachment security—an inner sense of worthiness and safety within relationships—also demonstrate the relationship skills promoted by highly regarded leadership theories and models. Secure leaders are experts at supporting, nurturing, and empowering others. Their teams feel energised, engaged, and motivated.
For leaders who tend to display more insecure patterns, the impact on their team members and the organisation is swift and detrimental. The good news is that patterns can change. Anyone can learn attachment security—anyone can become a secure leader.
This program follows Kylie Bell’s book The Secure Leader. It focuses on helping leaders cultivate secure attachment patterns as the key to their effectiveness and their team’s wellbeing and performance. This deep-dive five-month program offers significant benefits to participants on both a personal and professional level. We translate research and leadership methodologies into best-practice skills and strategies, supported by on-the-job experimentation and coaching so leaders see tangible results immediately.
Objectives
The Secure Leader program helps leaders:
Methodology: This program runs over five months. Each month leaders attend a full-day workshop, followed two weeks later by a small group ‘reflective practice’ coaching session.
Join our next Secure Leader program:
Start Date: Friday 10 May
Times: 9am – 3pm
Coaching Dates: Scheduled between the workshops.
Location: Inner North Location, venue supplied on enrolment
Investment: $4,400.00 including GST
Workshop Dates:
Workshop 1: Research and Impact – Attachment: The Missing Link in Leadership Development
This workshop explores why the leader–team member relationship is critical to individual and organisational wellbeing and performance. We learn how quickly team members are affected by a leader’s relationship patterns, what they look like and what kinds of environments they create. We uncover why respected leadership theories and models—Transformational, Authentic, Servant—need us to work on our attachment security first. We explore:
Workshop 2: Internal Work – Becoming Secure
This session examines how our relationship patterns can develop across our lives and what (contexts and environments) and who (people) affect their development and expression. When we know how patterns are created, we can learn how to create new ones. We start from the inside out, exploring the internal changes a leader can make, in mind and body, that set the vital foundation for becoming a secure leader. This internal shift is contagious and creates an atmosphere of safety and trust so others thrive. We examine:
Workshop 3: External Work – Behaviours of Secure Leaders
In this workshop, we learn a set of behavioural interventions leaders can adopt to improve their effectiveness. We experiment with practical skills, methods and strategies to foster open, transparent communication that motivates and empowers. We draw practical applications from leadership, psychological and motivational theory and learn how to build contexts and environments (organisational culture) that enable those around us to thrive. We address:
Workshop 4: One-on-One Work – Supporting Individual Team Members
This session uncovers ways leaders can adjust their approach to each team member to cultivate individual relationships that feel secure and are based on trust and support. We dive into skills and scenarios that make others feel recognised, valued and engaged, regardless of their relationship patterns. We learn ways of:
Workshop 5: Group Work – Building a Secure Team
This final session looks at the dynamic of the team environment and the interactions between team members that influence each other’s sense of connection and security. Specifically, we explore how leaders promote psychological safety and foster positive relationships among team members. Leaders learn how to create and protect a secure team culture that has every member feeling inspired and aligned with their leader, each other, and the organisation. In this session, we learn to:
I just want to personally thank you and let you know how much of an impact you have had on my life. You are innovative, passionate, genuine and caring which came across throughout the course and gave the course and contents so much more meaning. The atmosphere you created was one of trust and security, enabling participants to ‘let down their guard’ in a comfortable and safe environment. Take care and continue with the amazing work you do.
Sue
‘Modern’ is bandied about quite a bit but this is one of the few times we actually feel the impact of higher-level concepts communicated in a succinct and personal manner. There is an upbeat rhythm to every workshop, free from the typical rigid structure and run by a facilitator with an amazing wealth of knowledge and clear love for teaching.
Perhaps the greatest aspect of the courses is just how quickly and easily the information can be disseminated and implemented within the business. It is a testament to the level of accessibility and care that has been taken in developing each course. In many cases we implemented some of the workshop information into team meetings and have seen immediate and positive effects.
Chris
This was an excellent program that improved the leadership capacity and capability significantly across the organisation. Attendees found the program content was pitched at the right level and allowed them to integrate their new found knowledge into their roles immediately. It was instrumental in our leadership group developing a strategy to bring the organisational newly developed purpose, vison values to life in a practical sense across the entire organisation.
Mark
I would recommend Wren Learning for any type of organisation, big or small that has issues not only around performance management but any other training needs. Our facilitator in particular is very professional and very easygoing, a very good listener and is able to adapt programs to suit the organisational needs at the time.
Andrea
I have been speaking to everyone who attended the course and they all say how great it was. Our facilitator was very engaging, thorough and covered everything with great detail. Everyone was very happy with the course and are very keen to try new methods for resolving conflict and giving constructive feedback. Thanks again!
Jayde
If I could spend a day each month for the rest of my life learning from you guys I wouldn’t say no!
Kurtis
Interactive with open conversations and group work which makes it more engaging Thank you!
Casey
Great job! Really well presented. Easy structure with a clear focus. I can do this, many, many thanks. The resource booklet is really good as well.
Audrey
It was a great course. Our facilitator was lovely.
Bronwyn
Great Course! Great Engagement!
Frank
Thank you for a wonderful session. Our facilitator was amazing. It was so relevant and refreshing to have such good, engaging content.
Erin
Thank you all, along with our facilitator for a great start to the day, always feel positive leaving the varied sessions I have attended.
Trevor
Great class. I enjoyed the engagement portions. Well-structured material.
Michael
Our facilitator was great at delivering information and teaching. Very Knowledgeable! Really enjoyed the session and would highly recommend it to colleagues.
Maryanne
Activities were really fun and still relevant to training
David
A very positive day filled with lots of learning and new ideas.
Katrina
Really enjoyed the subject matter – just the right amount of time with right balance between content and activity.
Jacqui
Our staff recently received training in Emotional Intelligence. The group felt that the content was engaging, and the trainer used a variety of mediums and resources which captured the group’s concentration. They highly recommend that other staff within Council receive this training – it is very relevant to everybody’s professional and personal life.
Wendy
We were able to walk away with some really good skills to pass on to our team leaders and shift managers, which has been really beneficial for everybody.
Kate
Morale as a supervisor is what I’m there to do and learning through Wren Learning has given me strategies to keep people motivated and inspired and go that extra mile and do a great job for us.
Lee
Our facilitator always comes with really good research and she really challenges the team members who are attending her training. She makes them think about why things are the way they are and how they can change and how they can do things differently to get the most benefit.
Kris Kimberley
Wren Learning helped us develop a strategy for performance reviews and to give store managers the confidence to implement them.
After attending the training sessions we saw an immediate lift in morale and confidence of the store managers and just general enthusiasm. But what I think is really unique about Wren Learning is actually our facilitator herself. The way that she engaged with our staff and built their confidence was truly amazing. Her extensive knowledge of positive psychology and how to drive the team and keep them enthusiastic. We still see the outcomes of that today a couple of years on. What they learned with our facilitator wasn’t just for a couple of months it’s been ongoing.
Maxine Windram
Wren Learning was brought on board to change and develop the leadership team.
The leadership team are more engaged because they have more knowledge and they know how to handle situations confidently. They feel appreciated because we’ve invested this time effort and resources into ensuring they have what’s needed to be effective at their jobs.
Our facilitator makes it really fun. She’s an engaging person, very professional and loves what she does. She wants you to be the best version of yourself and for that to flow onto your team. The passion that comes with that is just unmatched so it’s a joy to work with our facilitator.
Christie Knox
Wren Learning is flexible, adaptable, and nothing’s too much trouble. The lengths that they go to ensure the uniqueness of each training depending upon the group is always a good learning outcome for everybody. They make sure they understand the “Why” and tailor all the training and all the development and the learning to that why.
Anita Jardine
