Program benefits
The IWC is confident that participants who fully commit to the program’s activities will enjoy substantial benefits. This confidence is based on the nature of program’s design, the team of people delivering the program, and strongly positive outcomes from a trial program conducted in 2008/9.
Graduates from the IWC Water Leadership Program will have:
- Improved ability to initiate and drive change, especially in relation to challenging, integrated water management projects and policies
- Greater capacity to exercise influence in a variety of contexts in the water sector
- Improved ability, experience and new tools to continue to develop as a leader (including an individual Leadership development Plan)
- Greater self-awareness (a prerequisite for effective leadership)
- Guidance on leadership behaviours and tactics from specialist researchers and respected water industry executives
- Improved ability to mentor other developing leaders and staff
- Greater capacity for leadership behaviours needed to move into executive roles
- New social networks with developing and established water leaders.
Benefits to the participants’ employers
The IWC has drawn on international research to design the program so that it delivers a positive and timely ‘return on investment’ to employer organisations. In addition, employers will benefit from participants strengthening the skills needed to:
- Initiate and drive change
- Address complex challenges to implement more integrated and sustainable water management practices
- Lead cross-boundary, multidisciplinary, high-performance teams
- Exercise influence across organisational boundaries
- Build trust and foster collaboration among colleagues and staff
- Strategically build and use social networks
- Use system thinking
- Communicate effectively with a range of colleagues
- Use ‘windows of opportunity’ to strategically drive change
- Find and/or create venues in which to exert influence
- Use various models of change.
