Human Skills for the Future Security Leader


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Human Skills for the Future Security Leader
Guest speaker - Dr Ben Honey
The future security leader must be equipped with leadership competencies, and critically the 'Human Skills' to be established as a leader of ‘digital trust’ and become a genuine business enabler.
Creating a security strategy is one thing, being able to communicate effectively with the board requires an entirely different set of skills and behaviours. Combined with presenting security objectives, requirements, goals, and security metrics into bite size consumable nuggets to enable the board to make effective decisions.
In times of increased change and uncertainty, the resilience and adaptability of the individual is key to success. Knowledge and experience of leadership styles, neurodiversity, and culture are important for the individual and the leader. Developing the individual skill set through leadership mentoring to share skills, knowledge, and experience. A valuable insight into the pathway of successful leaders for the future leaders of tomorrow, allowing learners to reflect on strengths and traits.
Increasingly, subject matter experts, need personal impact to be able to work as part of multi-disciplinary teams and bringing out what this means in practise. Future security leaders must develop business acumen and emotional intelligence to be able to bring about change. Being recognised as a strategic thinker, able to grasp the big picture, ensures the CISO is credible outside of traditional technology conversations. The CISO becomes an asset to the whole organisation. Including career planning and external insight into what firms are looking for when they hire a security leader and senior executives.
In these changing times, virtual teams are becoming more commonplace, including geographically dispersed teams. At the core of any virtual team process is communication. The virtual environment presents considerable challenges to effective communication including time delays in sending feedback, lack of a common frame of reference for all members, differences in salience and interpretation of written text, and assurance of participation from remote team members. Developing nonverbal communication is an important component of team communication which is usually missing in virtual teams.
Being a security leader can be a stressful role, often seen as combative when dealing with pervasive threat actors, increasing regulation, fear of making mistakes and feeling overwhelmed. Within the programme we explore and help recognise the signs of stress, fatigue and burnout in one’s self and others, which is vital in developing personal and professional resilience.
We recognise that neurodiversity is a growing aspect in many highly technical organisations, and we always consider this as part of our design process, drawing on our neurodiversity specialists to ensure accessibility for all. Understanding the intrinsic value and benefit of a truly diverse team, including the broad range of strengths and weakness to lead in a supportive working environment. Combined with building and leading a diverse team, evaluating the evidence and theories which show how diverse teams are stronger and more effective.
Agenda
- Leadership Influence
- Leadership Presence
- Leadership Communications
- Leadership Resilience
- Neurodiversity Advantage
About the speaker - Dr Ben Honey
Dr Ben Honey is a corporate learning specialist working with private and public sector organisations to design and deliver leadership and people development products.
· National Queen's Award Winner for Training Innovation
· Chartered Manager (Chartered Management Institute)
· Qualified coach, coach supervisor and coach trainer
· Training Needs Analysis, bespoke research, and design
· Accredited MBTI, Core Strengths and MSCEIT psychometric profiler
· Qualified Project Manager (APM - PMQ)
· Design and delivery of ILM and CMI programmes.
. Business, educational and behavioural based training
- Problem solving, decision making and creativity
- Performance management skills
- Leadership and management programmes
- Political Intelligence
- Advanced presentation and personal presence
- Emotional intelligence
- Conflict management
- Power, influence, persuasion and assertiveness
- Critical thinking skills
- Level 3-7 diplomas in leadership and management
- Business ethics and integrity
- Operational excellence
Retired as a Police Superintendent in 2014. Integral in creating the Metropolitan Police Leadership Academy with responsibilities for the design and delivery of the junior, middle, and senior leadership programmes to 14,000 staff. Included TNA, R&D, key speaker appointments, facilitation, QA, evaluation and facilitating senior teams.

Human Skills for the Future Security Leader