Future leaders is a programme of essential training seminars for up-and-coming architects who aspire to drive the directionof the profession.

LEARNING TO LEAD 22 MARCH

COMING TO THE FORE 17 MAYBUSINESS & INNOVATION 12 JULY

2pm-6pm66 Portland Place, W1

Architecture.com/FutureLeaders2018@RIBA #futureleaders

INTRODUCTION

Why does leadership matter? How is your acquisition of leadership skills significant for the profession and the wider industry? And why should we be looking at developing a different type of leadership for practice?Leadership in architecture is fundamental not only to the success of our own profession, but also the design and construction industry as a whole. The central role that architects should be taking, leading and coordinating teams and projects, in order to ensure the safety and quality of the built environment, has never been under greater scrutiny.So how do we win back the confidence of other professions and clients in order to assume this primary role? How can we equip talented architects to have the required soft skills and business know-how that robust and agile practice requires? Seven years ago, the RIBA acknowledged the gap in the profession’s skill set by launching Future Leaders. Last year, the series was revised further to become a comprehensive 3-part programme for early career professionals, providing a coherent introduction to leadership. The three half-day series highlights how you can: ‘Learn to Lead’ (22 March); start ‘Coming to the Fore’ (17 May) by honing your influencing, communication and presentation skills; and participate actively in ‘Business and Innovation’ (12 July).At the same time, the notion of what constitutes leadership is progressing. Practices are developing flatter structures with fewer offices organised around a single figurehead. The adoption of BIM requires that processes and team organisation are highly collaborative. While workplace culture, inspired by startups with their soft spaces and coffee shop-like meeting areas, has shifted to become more informal. The current practice context requires a larger number of individuals to become empowered to take fuller responsibility and work independently. Leadership is becoming less hierarchical and diverse with leaders being seeded across practices to lead on their own area of expertise. It is more about behaviours than position title. Leadership is embodied by individuals who are passionate about what they do, but also act with integrity and are empathetic, looking out for the well being of colleagues, while demonstrating nous and being business savvy.It has never been a more exciting or crucial time for the nurturing of future leaders. The delivery of this programme draws on a dynamic combination of professional coaches, thought leaders and architects. It is a great testimony to the dedication and passion of the profession that so many of today’s leading practitioners and experts have so generously given up their time to engage with and present to the leaders of tomorrow.Helen CastleRIBA Head of Professional Programmes

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FUTURE LEADERS: LEARNING TO LEAD

Future Leaders 2018 launches with a dedicated session on what it means to lead. Why is leadership important to practice? What differentiates leadership from management? How do you line yourself up for leadership by adopting a leadership mindset? How do you take those initial steps to shift from an operational to leader mode?Leadership guru Steve Radcliffe outlines the FED (Future Engage Deliver) framework, highlighting how leadership requires having ambition and a vision for the future, engaging colleagues and peers, and ultimately delivering results. This is underscored by a series of sessions, dedicated in turn, to ‘Future’, ‘Engage’ and ‘Deliver’, presented by leading architects, highlighting the effective application of leadership skills in practice.

OBJECTIVES OF THE DAY

• To provide a clear understanding of what leadership is• To establish what it means to lead• To provide clear direction on how to go about nurturing a leadership mindset• To differentiate leadership from management and the operational• To help delegates find their own leadership style, so they can lead authentically in a manner that is true to themselves and their passions• To outline the future focus that leadership requires in terms of strategy, planning and vision• To set out how to effectively engage and motivate team members and external stakeholder• To highlight the skills required in negotiation and decision-making• To convey the importance of high-quality delivery of services.

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PROGRAMME OF THE DAY

1.30 pm Registration and coffee

2.00 pm Welcome Lucy Carmichael, RIBA Director of Practice

2.10 pm Keynote: Future-Engage-Deliver: the principles and application of leadership Steve Radcliffe, leadership coach and bestselling author 2.50 pm Future: Strategy, Planning and Vision Teresa Borsuk, Senior Partner at Pollard Thomas Edwards

3.10 pm Future Summing Up: Steve Radcliffe

3.15 pm Coffee Break

3.45 pm Finding your Leadership Style Workshop Matthew Turner, architect, coach and careers consultant – The Architects’ Journal ’s columnist ‘The Coach’

4.35 pm Changeover/Comfort Break

4.45 pm Engage: Connecting with individuals, teams and clients Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects

5.05 pm Engage Summing Up: Steve Radcliffe

5.10 pm Deliver Panel Chair: Nigel Ostime, Project Delivery Director at Hawkins\Brown and Chair of RIBA Client Liaison Group Panel: Ed Clark, Director, Building Engineering Group, Arup Davinia Venton, Associate Director for Land and New Business at Countryside Properties Dan Winder, Design Leader for the Residential Construction Business at Lendlease

5.50 pm Summing Up Lucy Carmichael.

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FUTURE-ENGAGE-DELIVER (FED)

When I say ‘leadership’, I don’t mean the leadership that comes from position or title. What I mean by leadership is being at your best, being in touch with what you care about and doing something about it.Steve Radcliffe

FED provides the shape and themes for the day’s event. A simple, yet powerful framework, conceived by leadership expert Steve Radcliffe, it uses three key concepts – Future-Engage-Deliver – to enable leadership development. It is accessible and direct, putting the emphasis on the here and now. Rather than waiting for the next promotion, it encourages you to shift to a leadership mindset today: to start thinking and acting like a leader, asking those searching and testing questions of your current colleagues and projects.

Steve Radcliffe is one of the most successful and established leadership coaches. He is the author of the bestselling Leadership Plain and Simple (2nd edition, Pearson, 2012), which describes the FED model. Having grown up in Wigan, he studied at Oxford University, from where he joined Procter & Gamble. Later he moved to the US to become CEO of a division of the multi-national business, Tambrands.

In 1991, he left to become a leadership coach. As a leadership guru and premier speaker for over 25 years, he has worked with hundreds of chief executives, directors and their teams, and spoken at high-profile summits and conferences.@steveradcliffe

FUTURE

Having your eye on the future shapes the present as much as what is on the horizon. It can help you to prioritise what you are currently doing – the direction you want to take it in and also the time you choose to invest in it. It is only through a clear vison of the future that a practice can gain momentum. But how do you go about conceiving and implementing strategy, planning and vision? How do you combine these various elements and then effectively communicate them to those around you? Most significantly, how do you get buy-in taking colleagues with you? In these uncertain times, how can you ensure your approach is agile enough to adapt as markets and sectors remain in flux? Teresa Borsuk is Senior Partner at Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE). She has over 30 years’ experience in the housing, mixed-use and regeneration sectors. She is involved in PTE’s own property development activity and has acted as a developer, architect and main contractor on one project.

Teresa is a RIBA Client Adviser, RICS Awards and competitions judge and is on the LLDC Quality Review Panel. She was awarded AJ Woman Architect of the Year in 2015: under her leadership the number of women on the staff at PTE has risen to over 50 per cent. @PTEarchitects

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ENGAGE

Engage is about your impact on others, how you connect with them, how you stimulate their thinking and impact their energy… it always happens inside your relationship with others. So much of your ability to engage others lies in your ability to build big, strong relationships that help you to get the job done.Steve Radcliffe

Engagement is key to leadership in practice. The motivation of design teams and creation of meaningful longstanding relationships with other consultants, clients and stakeholders requires a level of emotional intelligence. Developing team spirit goes beyond ‘telling’ or ‘instructing’, it requires creating true connections and the nurturing of belief and passion. To create momentum across a small team or a global organisation, an emotional energy has to exist, which moves everyone forwards in a single direction.

Alison Brooks, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, is one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed an international reputation for award-winning work since founding the practice in 1996. The studio’s approach is marked out by its cultural research and attuned response to place and community, but also its unique approach to spatial geometry and materials. This has resulted in a portfolio of distinctive projects encompassing urban design, housing, education and buildings for the arts.

In 2017 Alison was appointed as a Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA and selected as Mayors Design Advocate for London. She was honoured with the 2017 AJ 100 Contribution to the Profession Award. Born in Ontario, Canada in 1962, she moved to London in 1988 after graduating with a BES and BArch from the University of Waterloo.@AlisonBrooksArc

FINDING YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE WORKSHOP

Personality is a major factor in the workplace – understanding not just how your own personality affects the way you act and the decisions you make, but how the personalities of the people you interact with inform their behaviour and your relationship to them. One of the most powerful keys to developing effective leadership ability is self-awareness. First and foremost, know who you are. How do you prefer to think, act, socialise, process information, etc? Architects who can reflect on who they naturally are in a better position to project more confidence, competence and vision, and more readily engender respect and build trust with those that they work with. Mattew Turner

Awareness of both the strengths and limits of your own personality and those around you is key to success. A new inclusion in this year’s Future Leaders programme is an interactive workshop session on finding your own leadership style with Matthew Turner.

Matthew Turner is an architect, regeneration grant manager, client advisor and founder of buildingonarchitecture.com. He has a background in architectural practice in the UK, Europe, India and Australia. He is currently a Senior Project Officer for the Mayor of London’s Regeneration team and ‘The Coach’, an expert careers columnist for The Architects’ Journal. His careers consultancy Buildingonarchitecture.com offers coaching and careers consultancy services to architects and architectural firms.

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DELIVER

In no other profession is the proof more in the pudding than in architecture, where the quality and efficient delivery of a building – on time and on budget – helps to secure the next client. As a highly iterative process, delivery depends on the quality of everyday as well as high-level decision-making. Being firm, clear and definite around processes aids the design process and builds confidence in a client. It requires following internal processes, but also careful interpretation and sensible judgement calls and more than anything fully understanding the client’s brief, values and business aims.

The deliver panel draws together two clients and an engineer to get the view from the other side. Before putting questions to the panel, the chair Nigel Ostime will briefly outline the findings of the RIBA Working with Architects survey, highlighting what it tells us about how architects are perceived by construction clients and its importance for not only delivery, but also our long-term commercial and professional future:

https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/knowledge-landing-page/working-with-architects-client-survey-results

CHAIR

Nigel Ostime is an architect and Project Delivery Director at Hawkins\Brown. He has broad experience in the design and delivery of complex projects and has managed multidisciplinary consultant teams through all project stages. He is a member of the RIBA Practice and Profession Committee and Chair of the RIBA Client Liaison Group. As a member of the RIBA Large Practice Group he set up the RIBA Future Leaders programme in 2012. Nigel lectures on ‘what clients want’ and project process at the AA, The Bartlett, Manchester and Westminster and is author of A Commercial Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect, the Small Projects Handbook, the RIBA Job Book and the Handbook of Practice Management. @NigelOstime @Hawkins_Brown

PANEL

Ed Clark is a Director and structural engineer in the Building Engineering Group at Arup in London. Ed is recognised as an accomplished structural designer through his contribution to complex projects. He holds a firm belief in the concept of ‘total design’ and the improved quality and economy that can be generated through an integrated and truly holistic approach.@ArupGroup

Daniel Winder is Design Lead for the Lendlease Residential Construction Business. An architect for over 20 years, he now oversees residential construction design management at Lendlease. He is responsible for strategic design management from design inception of new projects to completion and post-occupancy stages, to deliver consistency and quality and the evolution of the Lendlease residential product. In this capacity he works primarily with Lendlease Development as his main client. His work involves working at strategic levels within the business and in fine construction detail on technical issues. It requires innovation, planning and responses to issues as they arise on site, together with management of his team of design managers who are responsible for individual plots. @LendleaseGroup

Davinia Venton, Associate Director for Land and New Business at Countryside Properties. She is experienced in delivering major mixed use, mixed tenure regeneration projects across London and the South East. Responsible for establishing design parameters and the sales and commercial strategy, she leads on the financial and legal structures, including joint ventures with local authorities and the largest housing associations. @CountrysideProp

WITH THANKS

RIBA Future Leaders Steering Group:

- Tom Foggin, RH Partnership Architects- Caitlin Grieves, Foster + Partners- Mijail Gutierrez, Perkins + Will- Karen Mosley, HLM Architects- Camilla Neave, Make Architects- Sonal Rathod, PLP Architecture- Kiran Sharma-Boon, NORR- Andrew Thomas, Grimshaw Architects

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