Leadership Course: Leading to Empower

In the ever-changing landscape of local government, leadership that empowers individuals and teams is crucial for fostering innovation, collaboration, and community growth. This leadership course aims to build your capacity and capability to be a purposeful, inclusive leader who can lead for impact. This leadership course is grounded in local government context with experiential learning challenges. This course focuses relational leadership and how to lead with influence, empathy, the importance of communication, innovative ways of thinking, being and doing and self-reflection through the lens of management theories and structures.

The course teachings are based on evidence and rigour, drawing on cutting edge theory and practice relating to leadership development. The program encourages self-reflection in relation to your leadership development with the workshop closing with a self-reflection ‘check-out’ exercise.

Duration	One session (8 hours in total)
Dates	Thu 24 Jul 2025
Venue	UTS City Campus
Time	9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Cost	$698 (GST free)

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Course content

This leadership course will cover the following topics:

Emotional Intelligence – empowering yourself to empower others
Empowering teams
Realising your collective leadership impact within council
The future ‘us’
Action and reflection.

Learning outcomes

As a result of this leadership course, you will:

learn a suite of strategies to empower others to achieve
be able to actively contribute to the development of collective and collaborative leadership within council
understand and grow their leadership impact.

Delivery style

The leadership course uses a blend of presentation, discussion, case in point teaching, consultation in pairs, group exercises, individual take-away tasks to put into practice learnings in the workplace. This training approach allows you to work through concepts introduced by the presenter in an application-focused teaching environment. You will challenge your understanding of the concepts and consider their application once back in your individual workplace.

About the presenter

Sophi Bruce specialises in approaches to leadership, transition and social impact projects using a portfolio of techniques for reflective learning, collaborative working and thinking differently. From the design and delivery of bespoke learning programs to ongoing project delivery, Sophi's focus on positive tangible outcomes is supported by professional aptitude and a passion for facilitating personal, organisational and social progress.

Sophi is an authorised assessor of the Leadership Development Framework and has an executive certificate in Positive Psychology coaching. She has curated for the International Association for Public Participation and contributes to Adaptive Leadership Australia's leadership programs and The School of Life classes.

Course prerequisites

This leadership course has no prerequisites and is open to all members of the public. The course is one of five leadership courses in our Leading in Local Government series. Select the combination of courses from the list below that will meet your learning needs.