2-Day ACAMIS Workshop
Leading Effective Teams for New and Aspiring Team Leaders
Qingdao
May, 2027
More details to come.
Dates
Friday & Saturday
May, 2027
Time
8:00AM - 4:00PM
including lunch and tea breaks
Certificate Program
16 Hours of Professional Development will be Awarded
Early Bird Price*
ACAMIS Members: USD 465
Non-members: USD 565
*Available until April 1, 2027.
Essential Questions
How can SEL be meaningfully integrated into daily teaching without adding extra workload?
How can we foster belonging while maintaining clear expectations during conflict or misunderstanding?
What high-impact, manageable practices can I implement immediately?
How can educators facilitate respectful, developmentally appropriate dialogue around cultural differences?
How can classroom practices align with whole-school priorities?
This will be a 2-day workshop that supports new and aspiring team leaders to foster greater interdependency among team members by helping them understand how to manage the different beliefs, behaviours and priorities that exist in their team.
During this interactive workshop, participants will develop practical skills in leadership, communication, team development, and interdependent collaboration, while learning to navigate diverse expectations, facilitate meetings, give goal-focused feedback, and apply strategies to strengthen their teams.
New and aspiring leaders will leave the workshop with the understanding and confidence to facilitate team meetings, identify team goals, as well as to develop and foster strong relationships with and amongst team members.
Essential Question
What do I need to know and be able to do to lead a team that is working interdependently to achieve a shared purpose?
Over-Arching Goal
By the end of the workshop, participants will understand and have confidence to facilitate team meetings, identify team goals, as well as to develop and foster strong relationships with and amongst team members.
Workshop Outcomes
During this learning experience you will learn and practice how to excel in the following aspects:
Understand and appreciate different leadership expectations.
Practice effective communication skills.
Gain awareness of self and others and how to manage the disparity.
Learn how to facilitate effective meetings, ensure equity and foster interdependence.
Understand your role during different stages of team development.
Learn strategies to ensure your team works interdependently to achieve its goal.
Learn to give feedback relative to the team goal.
The speaker will facilitate the workshop, meaning learning will be activated and reinforced through discussion and team planning, so participants must come prepared to talk about their teams and experience.
Workshop Preparation
The facilitator will survey each participant to understand their expectations, assess their familiarity with the proposed content and identify case material for activities.
Every participant will be given Michael Iannini’s online self-guided book study: Hidden in Plain Sight: Realizing the Full Potential of Middle Leaders, from which they will be assigned at least 2 chapters of reading assignments for each module.
DiSC Workplace Behavioral Survey
Participants will complete the DiSC Behavior Survey prior to the workshop. Participants’ customized Behavioral Profile reports will be reviewed in the workshop and used throughout the workshop as a tool for developing greater awareness about self and other.
The DISC model groups four common behavioural patterns found universally in all people on earth. This simple four quadrant model is used to articulate the common ways that all human beings tend to act and communicate.
DiSC Outcomes:
DiSC provides a common language to help teams understand one another and work better together
Develop awareness of self and other to improve communication
Identify and hone key facilitation skills
Improve confidence and influencing skills
Reduce conflict and avoid misunderstandings
Demonstrate capacity to devise and deliver a compelling value proposition
Pricing
ACAMIS Members
USD 540
USD 465 pp*
Non-members
USD 640
USD 565 pp*
*Early Bird Discount ends on April 1, 2027.
Agenda
Day 1 | Fri
Module 1
Team Formation
9:00AM - 10:30AM, 15’ break, 10:45AM - 12:15PM
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Group norms are formed in the first meeting, whether you intend them to be or not, and once formed can be incredibly difficult to address in later stages of team development. This module will help you define your role as a leader, establish processes to facilitate effective team meetings and provide you the tools necessary to ensure your team is clear about its purpose and buys into the processes that will govern the team.
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What do I need to know and be able to do to lead a collaborative team?
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Participants will explore the why, what, and how of collaboration
Participants will learn how teams develop in stages and activities appropriate for each stage
Participants will learn how to manage effective meetings, ensure equity and foster interdependence.
Participants will use tools and strategies to establish group norms.
Module 2
Collaborative Communication (DiSC) and Meeting Management
1:15PM - 2:45PM, 15’ break, 3:00PM - 4:30PM
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To be influential and capable of motivating disparate team members, team leaders must understand how to adapt their leadership style to accommodate the beliefs and behavioral patterns of team members. Participants will use their DiSC results to learn to adapt communication for different team members and use communication strategies to mitigate barriers to communication.
2-3 months into the school year group norms begin to get tested and members will begin to question their role on the team. The team leaders role at this stage should be more focused on reinforcing the purpose of the team, the role that each member plays and how to foster greater interdependency between each team member. Effective meeting management at this stage of the team’s development is crucial. -
How can I adapt my communication and leadership style to improve my influence and effectiveness as a meeting facilitator?
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Participants will explore and understand how to accommodate different beliefs about leadership.
Participants will gain an understanding and appreciation of different work styles.
Participants will learn how to manage 5 difficult team member behaviors.
Participants will demonstrate assertive communication skills.
Participants will assess meeting management practices and identify strategies to improve them.
Day 2 | Sat
Module 3
Goal Setting
9:00AM - 10:30AM, 15’ break, 10:45AM - 12:15PM
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Establishing transformative team goals requires a team leader to first assess their team’s capacity for change. The capacity of a department to work interdependently towards achieving a transformative goal will largely be dependent on each team members’ capability of attending to the transactional aspects of their work.
All teams in a school will have a different capacity to collaborate transformatively. In this module participants will learn to assess their team’s capacity for working interdependently to achieve a shared goal. Participants will learn how to establish an effective team goal, in the form of an inquiry, that addresses the needs of each team member, the team and the school. -
How do I align individual, team and school objectives into a transformative team goal, that my department has the capacity to achieve, and will improve student learning?
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Participants will assess their team capacity to work interdependently to achieve a transformative goal.
Participants will be introduced to Sandboxing to insulate the team from outside influences that can undermine goal attainment.
Participants will learn to facilitate effective goal setting processes that are inquiry based.
Participants will understand that pursuing goals is an iterative process that requires periodic tuning.
Module 4
Action Planning Through Inquiry
1:15PM - 2:45PM, 15’ break, 3:00PM - 4:30PM
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Turning vision into reality requires actionable steps and a plan grounded in purposeful inquiry. This final module empowers participants to bridge the gap between vision and day-to-day leadership through focus questions that translate into measurable goals and actions. By creating a personalized action plan, participants gain a roadmap for implementing their vision with precision and accountability. This ensures they leave the retreat with clear next steps that are both actionable and measurable.
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How can I translate my vision into actionable steps that drive measurable outcomes?
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Develop actionable focus inquiry questions to guide leadership practices in alignment with their vision
Create a personalized action plan based on these inquiries, mapping connections from vision to goals to actions
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Focus Inquiry Framework
Action Planning Template
Facilitator
Claire Peet
Claire Peet is an experienced international education consultant specialising leadership development and professional learning programming. She works with international schools across Asia to support learning and development systems, sustainable change implementation and leadership growth pathways.
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“Claire creates a truly collaborative learning environment, and Ileft with practical tools that I was able to implement the verynext Monday. Tools I continue to use today and now amteaching my team to use. That is the true value of her work asa facilitator: actionable skills that create immediate and lastingchange AND ripple effects in organizations.
She was also kind enough to take my call when I reached out in tears after a feedback session had gone completely off plan.She offered a listening ear, clear guidance, and practical stepsthat helped me move forward with confidence.
The ROl is HIGH!”
— Comine Howe, Director of Marketing & Communications at Qingdao Amerasia International School
“Thank you so much for all your support. I’ve really enjoyed working with you and learned so much along the way. This experience has been truly valuable, and I’m excited to put what I’ve learned into practice moving forward.
I really appreciate your guidance and encouragement throughout this journey.”
— Lulu Zhang, Specialist Teacher - Chinese, Head of Year at Australian International School Hong Kong
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Pricing
ACAMIS Members
USD 480
USD 380 pp*
Non-members
USD 600
USD 500 pp*
*Early Bird Discount ends on April 1, 2027.