Leadership for Innovation
Leadership for Innovation (LFI) is a subject that offers a unique opportunity for CIE/CIP graduates: to become team mentors and lead their own team.
WARNING: Participation in this subject is by invitation only.
Students must have successfully completed Creating Innovative Engineering (ENGR90034) or Creating Innovative Professionals (ENGR90039) and received a nomination by the teaching team to apply.
About Leadership for Innovation
Leadership for Innovation (LFI) is a companion subject that is offered, by invitation, to selected graduates of Creating Innovative Engineering (CIE)/Creating Innovative Professionals (CIP).
This subject is exclusively for students who have successfully completed CIE/CIP and are seeking to develop their coaching and leadership skills to successfully deliver innovation projects and gain an edge for your career.
When you take CIE/CIP, your team is supported by a mentor. In LFI, you become the mentor.
LFI is the leadership subject you take while you mentor your CIE/CIP team.
What's involved?
As an LFI student, you will participate in the leadership program alongside industry mentors.
Over the semester, you will split your time between learning content, applying learning to guide your CIE/CIP team towards success, and reflecting on your experience.
Identity
I see myself as a leader
Understanding
I know what it means to be a leader
Skills
I know how to be a leader
Topics covered
- The nature of leadership today with considerations of authenticity, boundaries, cultural differences and complex stakeholders
- The cultivation of insight through reflection, presence and awareness
- How to facilitate, coach, mentor and influence
- Nurturing creativity and generative dialogue
- How to mediate conflict, provide effective feedback and manage resistance to change
- Presentation skills, storytelling and perfecting the pitch
- The self-directed career and habit formation.
Hear from a past student mentor
Student mentor
Semester 1, 2020
"I came into LFI with what I thought was a fairly good idea of what a leader was. Something that LFI taught me is that a leader isn’t necessarily the person at the ‘front’ and definitely isn’t necessarily the most outspoken person. We learnt that in some situations, especially during ambiguous innovation projects like CIE/CIP, the best kind of leader is a mentor. Someone who’s aim is to empower others. I’m still refining this kind of leadership style, but I wouldn’t have had this realisation and been able to directly apply it, without LFI."