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Lead With Influence (July 2023)

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Lead With Influence (July 2023)

This is an interactive, virtual training for all leaders who manage big responsibilities — such as processes, products or platforms — but have no direct reports. Apply by Friday, June 2.

July 10, 2023– July 31, 2023

Overview

  • Meet online for four hours a week over four Mondays in July.
  • Use a pop-up Slack channel to connect with your peers and participate in weekly leadership challenges.
  • Test tactics and strategies in collaboration, communication and conflict management.
  • Discuss your leadership challenges with experienced Poynter leadership coaches during weekly 45-minute AMAs.
  • Apply for this program as soon as you know you want to participate. The deadline to apply is June 2.
  • Some partial tuition scholarships are available. Let us know if you require aid when you apply.

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Learning Outcomes

You will learn:

  • How to build strategic and productive relationships throughout your organization
  • How to give (and get) effective feedback
  • How to market yourself and your work
  • How to foster creativity and collaboration across silos
  • Your personal communication style and how to recognize the communication styles of those you must work with most closely
  • How to lead your leaders by challenging and managing up

$600.00

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Overview

  • Meet online for four hours a week over four Mondays in July.
  • Use a pop-up Slack channel to connect with your peers and participate in weekly leadership challenges.
  • Test tactics and strategies in collaboration, communication and conflict management.
  • Discuss your leadership challenges with experienced Poynter leadership coaches during weekly 45-minute AMAs.
  • Apply for this program as soon as you know you want to participate. The deadline to apply is June 2.
  • Some partial tuition scholarships are available. Let us know if you require aid when you apply.

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Most leadership training is designed for supervisors who have direct reports. But in today’s newsrooms, leaders are just as often responsible for projects, products or people across departments. Demonstrating leadership without formal authority is its own skill, and it’s core to this online leadership workshop from Poynter.

Pulling from the best practices, feedback and application needs of Poynter’s flagship Leadership Academy for Women in Media, this four-session workshop was originally designed to help women and nonbinary journalists in the industry use their social capital to lead with influence. Due to industry-wide demand for this kind of leadership training, we’ve made this iteration of Lead With Influence open to all gender identities.

If you have the official title of project manager or product manager, or are in the position of being responsible for outcomes without formally supervising anyone (including those all-important bridge roles in audience, innovation and strategy), this program is for you.

You might oversee a big investigation, a rewrite of your standards and ethics policies, or the launch of a newsroom partnership. You might be in charge of a crucial element of getting the news out, like building a workflow to accommodate a new product, or making sure that the entire staff knows how to select visual elements, yet you have no team of your own. You have to discern the best way to get buy-in and collaboration across departments.

I gained a ton of useful and usable leadership skills through this class that have already helped me in the newsroom and even in volunteer organizing that I do … I also felt quite welcomed and seen in the group as a nonbinary person.

— Kit O’Connell, Digital Editor, Texas Observer, 2023 alum

In essence, you’re the driving force behind initiatives that are critical for the success of your news media organization. Lead With Influence gives informal but influential leaders like you the leadership training needed to be as effective and successful as possible. Apply by Friday, June 2.

Questions?

If you need assistance, email us at info@poynter.org. Some partial tuition scholarships are available. Let us know if you require financial aid in your application.

This online group seminar takes place July 10-31, with live sessions Mondays from 1-5 p.m. Eastern. Participants will need to block off these time slots:

  • Week 1: July 10, 1-5 p.m. Eastern
  • Week 2: July 17, 1-5 p.m. Eastern
  • Week 3: July 24, 1-5 p.m. Eastern
  • Week 4: July 31, 1-5 p.m. Eastern

Poynter will also host a version of this program, open to women and nonbinary leaders, in November.

Who should apply

Leaders in journalism or journalism-adjacent organizations who have lots of responsibility but no direct reports. This might include people with such job titles as product manager, project manager, audience engagement editor or specialist, visuals editor or art director, analytics editor, producer or senior reporter. If you think you would benefit from learning about demonstrating leadership without formal authority, you should apply now.

Application process

The process to apply is straightforward and simple. No letter of recommendation or reference is required. Please be prepared to answer questions about your professional experience, areas of interest and basic demographic information. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 2. 

Cost

Tuition for this online workshop, which includes four weeks of live instruction, is $600. Thanks to the Gill Foundation, some scholarships are available for LGBTQ+ participants who are also members of NLGJA. Let us know if you require financial aid in your application.

Payment is due after we process applications and confirm your participation.

Instructors

Lead Faculty

  • Kathy Lu
    Adjunct
    Kathy Lu has spent more than two decades in journalism as a leader and manager. She is an alumna of several leadership courses, including through...
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Instructors

  • Tony Elkins
    Faculty
    Tony Elkins, a citizen of the Comanche Nation, is a faculty member at Poynter and will initially be responsible for co-directing Poynter’s Leadership Academy for...
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  • Kim Fox
    Director of Product Reader Experience, Hearst
    Kim is the Director of Product focused on reader experience at Hearst Newspapers. Previously, she led product strategy for CalMatters, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom committed to explaining California...
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  • Kristen Hare
    Faculty, The Poynter Institute
    Kristen Hare covers and teaches on the transformation of local news for the Poynter Institute. Her work for Poynter has earned her a Mirror Award...
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  • Charo Henríquez
    Editor, Newsroom Development and Support, The New York Times
    Charo Henríquez is a digital media executive based in New York City. She has extensive experience working at the intersection of journalism and technology, as...
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  • Q McElroy
    Digital Media Consultant
    Q McElroy is an experienced digital media leader rooted in local journalism. She has created and implemented strategies to help dozens of brands grow their...
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  • Kate Cox
    Adjunct
    Kate Cox is a digital media consultant and former editor-in-chief of The Counter, a nonprofit newsroom covering the money, power, and politics of food, where...
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