Community of Practice for Engineering Leaders
Focusing on real everyday problems
Purpose
Our community of practice is an environment where leaders can come together, and feel welcome, included, and safe to work on real problems. Where leaders can reflect on their setbacks, share their challenges and experiences, and explore best practices and new possibilities. We build a community of trust through open sharing of knowledge, and practical learning.
Collaborate on solving actual problems
To make sure we're working on your current day-to-day challenges, we ask you to share them with us before the first session. We use your responses as a baseline to establish a sense of where everyone is at, and what they need from the program. Everybody gains that understanding when we share them back in the first session.
Each week, part of the session focuses on exploring those questions in short, directed, small group discussions. These structured discussions emphasise exploratory collaborative problem-solving through reflection, enquiry, and deep listening. Sometimes we'll invite more experienced members of our network as guests to join these conversations when additional perspectives are needed.
This process leans into dialogue and self-reflection rather than instruction. Our facilitation of the discussions is led by our experience, but we don't claim to have every answer. Instead we help each other find answers together, in a repeatable way that you can take back to your workplace.
These sessions are structured so that everyone has the opportunity to address a concrete work challenge they have and participate in discussions for others in the group.
Who is this for?
- Engineering managers
- Engineering directors
- Heads/VPs of Engineering
- Chief Technology Officers
Elle and Lachlan have a knack for creating a safe learning environment and helping participants of all levels get involved. I left their workshop inspired, with a few new tools under my belt and the confidence to put them in practice.
They know the web community inside-out so speakers they bring in are top notch. Would highly recommend them to any development team looking to level up.
Steve Gilles , Founder at Lookahead
Why you should join our Community of Practice
- You want to deepen your knowledge and leadership skills.
- You care about your team.
- You want to increase team engagement and performance.
- You want to connect with people who you might not usually collaborate with to explore new possibilities, ideas, and problem solving.
- You want to share stories and knowledge to help others and yourself build on existing leadership skills.
- You want to engage in thoughtful dialogues amongst a cohort of like-minded peers.
- You want to be amongst a supportive group of peers that you can learn from and turn to for future challenges and opportunities.
What we ask
- Show up for the full duration of each session
- Be willing to give before you get
- Provide us with feedback along the way
- Like all our events, this workshop is covered by our code of conduct and joining us assumes your agreement to be bound by the code.
As a Software Engineer stepping into the world of technical leadership for the first time, I found Lachlan and Elle's workshop to be extremely valuable. Connecting with others in the industry gave me the opportunity to learn from real world examples, and there was a healthy balance of theoretical and technical content.
I'd recommend this workshop if you want to grow your team sustainably, and set them up for long term success.
Chris Nankervis
Logistics
- When:
- Starting Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
- Format:
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- Five consecutive weeks
- 1.5 hour online session per week (plus light pre-session prep)
- 8 participants (one person per company)
- Becoming a member of our Community of Practice network.
- Cost:
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Early Bird: $1,200 AUD plus GST
Regular: $1,500 AUD plus GST
- Tickets: