Leadership workshops

Build your capacity for strategic leadership.
Develop the confidence, capacity, and the tools to navigate the complex challenges that your organization is facing.

leadership workshops

In-person or online, I deliver workshops which help teams build capacity for leadership, strengthen their foundations and improve performance.

No matter the title or type of team, participants regularly report gaining new insights, knowledge, and skills to lead more effectively in their day to day.

As an ex-Engingeering Leader and leadership coach, I’ve facilitated dozens of workshops with teams as small as three to as large as 30. My goal is always to bring my hands-on experience as a leader to the topics that I teach, to ensure the learning is as practical and relevant as possible. I pride myself on my ability to make participants feel welcome and supported, while still challenging their habits and beliefs, where appropriate.

Effective workshops are comprised of the following components:

  • Creating space for the learners to shine

  • Making room for participants' questions and needs

  • Meeting the participants where they're at

  • Stepping aside and letting them learn

  • Learning as an interaction between practitioners

  • Designed with positive emotions in mind: Light-heartedness, fun, playfulness, creativity

My workshops help your teams by

  • Increasing motivation and engagement

  • Developing tools to navigate and address specific challenges

  • Equipping them to achieve your business goals

 Available workshops

I offer a selection of off-the-shelf, one day workshops which are outlined below.

  • After years of high growth and a focus on scale, we’ve seen a retraction in the tech industry at large.

    Managing in a downturn is challenging. You need to radically change the way that you and your team operate and consider not only whether you’re achieving your goals in the desired quality (effectiveness), but also how you’re doing so (efficiency).

    Applying the steps, tools, and frameworks shared in this workshop will help you achieve this radical change. You will take away concrete steps to increase efficiency on your team(s), do more with less, and be the leader that your business and your team needs during times of uncertainty.

    You will learn:

    • Foundations and principles for leadership during times of economic scrutiny

    • Adapting your role and operational mode

    • Creating and maintaining alignment with accountability by taking your team(s) along for the journey

    • Identifying and addressing improvement opportunities to increase team efficiency and productivity

    • Managing for high visibility

    • Strategies and tactics for continuously improving together with your team

  • Change is one of the only certainties for an engineering leader - be it daily changes in agile software development, a product pivot, an acquisition, a high-growth period, or a pandemic. And times of change are some of the most challenging to lead in.

    So how can you be an effective leader when the horizon is uncertain?

    In this workshop, we’ll explore how to be more intentional when leading and managing through change. We’ll examine how to react to change and support your teams, and how you as an individual can be a change leader. Learning about ideal tools, strategies, and dynamics, you’ll leave this masterclass with the skills you need to become a confident manager in times of change.

    Workshop components & tools

    • Strategies for driving change effectively in your organisation and becoming an enabler for your team

    • Tried and tested tools and frameworks to help your teams thrive and succeed in times of high change

    • Communication and alignment techniques to ensure your message is heard clearly and understood

    • How to manage team and organisational dynamics that occur in periods of uncertainty

    • What it means to be action-oriented

    • How to bring a sense of urgency to your leadership work and instil a bias to action in your teams

    • Methods for implementing incremental change in your teams

    • How to manage upwards more effectively

    • Take accountability for your own and your teams’ actionsImplementing larger organizational changes

  • You will learn:

    • How to come up with a coherent strategy and product story as a leadership team

    • Use leadership team members’ expertise and perspectives to shape corporate strategy

    • Gain clarity for each domain about how they’re contributing to the overall department strategy

    • Initiatives and hypotheses to test in the remainder of this year

  • You will learn:

    • How to ensure scalability of customer support and on-call rotation during high-growth period

    • Principles for effective support and on-call

    • Compliance

    • Process definitions

    • Responding to and learning from incidents

Custom
workshops

Based on the goals and results you want to achieve for your leadership team, I create tailored workshops that can be run in-person or online.

These typically range from half a day to two day workshops. Contact me using the form below to discuss custom workshops.

Testimonials

  • “It was good to spend the whole day learning and discussing with peers with the focus on change. A big takeaway for me was being more thoughtful about my communication levels with people. The workshop helped build my mindset for embracing or driving change for my teams.”

    Development Manager

  • “The workshop dynamic was very engaging. Lena created a comfortable atmosphere which encouraged people to share their experiences.”

    Antonio Najera

  • “The workshop included some brilliant content and great theories. The most important concepts that I took away were how to start getting others to push information to me, metrics that I can report on, and how to help my org manage change. As a result of the workshop, I will look to incorporate more strategic thinking and raise my horizon out of just short term tactical response work.”

    Head of Engineering

Interested in a workshop?

Contact me today to discuss how I can help your leadership team reach its full potential. Email me directly at inquiries@lenareinhard.com or fill in the form below.