ELASTIC Leadership for Professionals

Presented by: 
Dr. Rebecca Sutherns
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 10:00am
Zoom Meeting Platform
A 2-part professional development series from AAPS
Focus Areas: Leadership, Flexibility, Creativity

Photographic portrait of facilitator Rebecca Sutherns

Program Summary

People are being asked to stretch all the time, but often in too many directions for too long. What does it take to stretch in healthy and helpful ways without snapping, snapping back, or losing your shape? In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how to find and stay in your zone of optimal stretch. We’ll draw on the metaphor of elasticity to help you clarify what is fixed and what is flexible for you in contexts of constant change. We’ll also use ELASTIC as a memorable acronym for desirable skills of responsive leaders, exploring strategies to build your energy, likeability, adaptability, strategy, trust, imagination and curiosity. Grounded in recent research behind a 2023 book by this same title, this session will increase your nimbleness and resilience as a leader.

Audience

This session is for professionals. It is most appropriate for members who are specialists and individual contributors. 

What You Will Learn:

  • The ELASTIC model of personal effectiveness that helps avoid both burnout and “bore out”: Attendees will leave feeling more self-aware and focused
  • Practical ways to increase your energy, likeability, adaptability, strategy, trust, imagination and curiosity, as pathways to more responsive leadership: Attendees will leave feeling informed and equipped with useful tools for creative problem solving

How You Will Learn: 

  • Zoom meeting platform
  • Breakout room discussions
  • Group discussions
  • Third-party engagement tools
  • Slides
  • Self-reflection

About Your Facilitator

Dr. Rebecca Sutherns is an insightful and high energy collaborative strategist and world class facilitator who has served as a trusted advisor to hundreds of mission-driven organizations, across Canada and internationally. Rebecca brings intellect, enthusiasm, and varied experience in strategy development and adaptability when speaking, writing, and mentoring. She is a skilled communicator, with a particular gift for helping leaders make wiser decisions faster. Rebecca is a Certified Professional Facilitator, frequent keynote speaker, and author of the books Nimble: Off Script but Still On Track. A coaching guide for responsive facilitation, Sightline: Strategic plans that gather momentum not dust, and ELASTIC: Stretch without snapping or snapping back. Learn more at rebeccasutherns.com.

Participant Expectations for the Live Zoom Sessions

  1. To attend the full session (late arrivals and early exits are very noticeable and negatively impact the session)
  2. To participate using audio and video (we appreciate that there are sometimes technical issues, but please in a space where you can at least use audio. If that doesn’t work for you, please sign up for the recorded version)
  3. To actively participate in the breakout room conversations, group activities, and personal reflection exercises
  4. Be open and engaged with the content of the session, even if it doesn’t immediately resonate with you. We encourage you to try things out.
  5. To be professional, kind, and courteous to fellow participants and practice patience, confidentiality, and inclusivity.

Registration

All live sessions will be held on the Zoom meeting platform. Recorded versions will also be made available if you cannot attend the live event.

Invitations to AAPS members will be emailed at the end of February. The AAPS PD Program is open to AAPS members only and offered at no cost.

  1. Expand Your Adaptability for Managers, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 10am-12pm
     
  2. Expand Your Adaptability for Professionals, Thursday, March 7, 2024, 10am-12pm
     
  3. ELASTIC Leadership for Managers, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 10am-12pm
     
  4. ELASTIC Leadership for Professionals, Friday, March 15, 2024, 10am-12pm
     
  5. Recorded versions of Adaptability and Elastic Leadership (available for streaming 60 days after posting)

About the Series

AAPS is pleased to welcome Rebecca Sutherns to the AAPS PD Program. Rebecca will be offering this two-part series for managers and professionals on adaptability, creativity, and flexibility as team members and leaders. These sessions draw on different tools, bodies of research and approaches to tackle the challenges of life in volatile and demanding contexts. They offer two different pathways to the same destination of becoming better equipped to respond effectively to uncertainty. Join us to be inspired and work on developing critical skills for our modern workplace. Learn more about the first program in the series.