Following the recent session on Strategic Thinking and Innovation in Leadership for Higher Education (HE) with Caroline Dunne in March, GuildHE will be running a series of three 90-minute online workshops designed for early-career and aspiring leaders, giving them tools they can apply immediately in their institutions.

The three workshops align with the priority areas identified by GuildHE for leadership development: navigating HE governance, managing teams and projects, and influencing and communication.

Session 2 of 3: Managing Teams and Projects

How to lead with confidence, clarity and care - and set up your people and projects for success in complex environments

This workshop brings together the people side of leadership and the core building blocks of project setup and delivery. We explore what teams need from leaders when uncertainty is high, how to communicate with clarity and steadiness, and how to recognise the emotional undercurrent during times of change.
Participants will learn simple but powerful tools to set projects up for success. Throughout the session, we will use examples from real HE environments - cross-functional delivery, change initiatives, portfolio management challenges, and the pressure of “too much, too fast” - to ground the tools in lived reality.

About the speaker:

Caroline Dunne is a Leadership Coach and Change Practitioner with over 25 years’ experience working with senior leaders in complex, fast-evolving higher environments. She partners with academic and professional services leaders who are navigating sustained pressure, uncertainty and major change.

Caroline’s work is grounded in lived experience. She has held senior executive and advisory roles across diverse universities in the UK and Australia, including serving as Chief of Staff to a Vice-Chancellor at a large, multi-campus institution. From the executive corridor to faculties, schools and central portfolios, Caroline has led and supported large-scale transformation programmes, cultural renewal and the development of internal change leadership capability.

Cost:

  • £40 (per session)
  • £110 (discounted rate for all three sessions)

Registrations links: To secure your place, please register and complete payment.

Register for this session only  

GuildHE Strategic Thinking in Leadership Workshop with Caroline Dunne session links:

  • Session 1 of 3 (15 June 13:00-14:30): Navigating HE Governance
  • Session 2 of 3 (23 June, 13:00-14:30): Managing Teams and Projects (this webpage)
  • Session 3 of 3 (3 July, 13:00-14:30): Influencing and Communication

Available to GuildHE members only. To know more about GuildHE membership, please email [email protected]