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Lead With Influence (June 2024)

$600.00

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Lead With Influence (June 2024)

This is an interactive, virtual training for women and nonbinary leaders who manage big responsibilities — such as processes, products or platforms — without direct reports. This virtual training is also offered for all genders in February and October.

June 3, 2024– June 24, 2024

Overview

  • Meet online for four hours a week every Monday in June.
  • 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 industry leaders during 45-minute AMAs.
  • Apply for this program as soon as you know you want to participate. The deadline is Monday, May 6, 2024.

$600.00

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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 you and your work
  • How to foster creativity and collaboration across silos
  • Your personal communication styles and how to recognize the communication style of those you must work with most closely
  • How to lead your leaders by challenging and managing up

$600.00

Application is closed

Overview

  • Meet online for four hours a week every Monday in June.
  • 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 industry leaders during 45-minute AMAs.
  • Apply for this program as soon as you know you want to participate. The deadline is Monday, May 6, 2024.

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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 designed to help women and nonbinary journalists in the industry use their social capital to lead with influence.

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.

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.

This virtual training is also offered for all genders in February and October.

Questions?

If you need assistance, email us at info@poynter.org. Some tuition scholarships are available. Let us know if you require financial aid as you register for the program.

This online group seminar takes place June 3-24, with live sessions Mondays from 1-5 p.m. Eastern. Participants will need to block off these time slots:

  • Week 1: June 3, 1-5 p.m. Eastern. 
    • The currency of leadership: Understanding your strengths and leadership styles
  • Week 2: June 10, 1-5 p.m. Eastern.
    • Getting (and giving) better feedback: Learn and practice a framework for giving and asking for feedback.
  • Week 3: June 17, 1-5 p.m. Eastern.
    • Communication up, down and across: Learn how to challenge and manage your bosses and your peers.
  • Week 4: June 24, 1-5 p.m. Eastern. 
    • It’s ME time: Get comfortable with marketing yourself and your ideas.

Who should apply

Leaders in journalism or journalism-adjacent organizations who identify as female or nonbinary 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. This course has limited enrollment and will fill up quickly. The deadline to apply is Monday, May 6, 2024.

This virtual training is also offered for all genders in October.

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 Monday, May 6, 2024.

Cost: $600

Tuition for this online workshop, which includes four weeks of live instruction, is $600. 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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