Leadership Lab Event on Social Media
Leadership Lab presents Knowledge 1
Social Media: A Challenge to Leadership?
Date: Tuesday 26th January 2010
Time: 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Venue: Picture House, Band on The Wall, Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JZ (find it)
A free event about Social Media and how it affects leadership.
Does the very mention of blogs, wikis, virtual worlds and social networks conjure up nightmare images of your employees frittering away their time chatting on Facebook, tweeting company secrets across the web or doing something they shouldn’t be doing that you have no control over?
Or maybe you are aware that other competitors are using the technology and you are wondering if you should be in there as well?
Are there real benefits to using social media or is it just the latest fad?
Are you curious - but worried about the risks - or afraid of failure?
Social technologies turn on its head the logic that has informed traditional business models, creating a diametric shift away from familiar, formal structures to more vibrant social networks.
As a leader could you dare to let go of controlling the message, the roles and the relationships?
Are you ready to join the experiment?
Leadership Lab is a dynamic partnership between four North West based organisations – GMMAZ (Greater Manchester Music Action Zone), Music Leader North West, PANDA (Performing Arts Network and Development Agency) and Substance. Over the next 12 months, Leadership Lab is delivering an ambitious programme of leadership-themed events that embrace risk and creativity.
Social Media: A Challenge to Leadership? The first in our series of Knowledge sessions, is developed around the theme of how social can media inform and impact on leadership. We aim to provide a setting where participants can embrace new ideas, develop innovative leadership strategies and provoke new thinking about core leadership skills.
In the first half of the afternoon Nick Booth of Podnosh will be leading the Social Media Game, specially designed for the event. People will work together on problem solving scenarios providing a chance to explore the issues around creating a social media strategy.
We will then move onto a Question & Answer Session where participants can discuss the role of the social web in organisational development and identifying and mitigating risks with an expert panel.
Panellists will include:
- Dave Moutrey – Director, Cornerhouse, Manchester
- Adrian Slatcher - Manchester Digital Development Agency & AmbITion Project
- Amy Sample-Ward – Net Squared
- Chi-chi Ekweozor - Real Fresh TV
To reserve your place or for further information please contact Zoe Pickering on 07739 814 382 or email zoe@leadershiplab.org.uk
Knowledge 1 is followed by two events that you are invited to attend:
Net Squared
6.30pm Tuesday 26th January 2010
Manchester Digital Laboratory, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 8HN
This will be the first Manchester NetSquared / Net Tuesday meetup. Net Tuesdays are free monthly gatherings for social change makers and web innovators to network, socialise and share ideas about how nonprofits and social benefit organisations can use the social web for social change.
Nitin Sawhney Talks Film
7.00pm, Tuesday 26th January 2010
Picture House, Band on the Wall, Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JZ