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Discover Programme
A 4-week online introduction to social leadership designed to help you gain insight into who you are as a leader and how to develop.
£50
Discover the key leadership skills required for social leadership and map your future leadership journey with our four-week online introductory course.
The Discover Programme is a great first step or refresh for
anyone working for social change who is looking to develop themselves as leaders in order to transform their organisations, communities and the world around them.
Course Detail
- 2-4 hours/week
- All levels of experience
- £50
- Certificate of completion
Course Features
- 4-week course
- Exclusively online
- Self-paced learning
- Peer networks
Leaders at all level
No matter if you’re a new manager or seasoned CEO, the programme will help you to better understand yourself, your organisation and your development needs.
Working for social purpose
This refers to organisations or freelance work with a social purpose, including charities, social enterprises, CICs, CSR departments, etc.
Passionate about social change
Your interest in using your leadership skills and knowledge to help make the world a better place is key.
Keen to develop
Your determination to develop yourself so you can lead social change effectively is all you need to take part in the programme.
"Absolutely brilliant, comprehensive and challenging course materials. Really appreciated the different methods of learning explored. Have actually learnt quite a lot!'
Kea Horvers
SOAS
"I found the course incredibly thought-provoking and it really helped me to consider my management style, the context within which I operate and my role in achieving social change."
Participant
Discover Programme
"The last three weeks of participating on the Discover Programme has reignited a passion for learning and wanting to do better, both in work and in my personal life."
Participant
Discover Programme
Good leadership is a prerequisite for true, tangible social change. 21st century social challenges require leaders who can meet the challenges of a changing world. The Discover Programme helps you gain clear insight into who you are as
a leader, where your strengths lie and how you might develop going forwards. You’ll get the opportunity to reflect on your own experiences and skills and contextualise them using a variety of accessible tools and techniques.
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Develop the social leadership capabilities needed to tackle 21st Century social challenges.
Boost your confidence in your leadership abilities and learn to confidently navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change.
Become more effective in your leadership role, learning how to enable high-performance within your teams.
Through live classrooms and online communication platforms, you will gain access to a peer group of social sector leaders who will support and challenge you to develop even further.
Build an actionable Leadership Development Plan to help you continue your leadership journey.
Become a member of our online community to connect and collaborate with changemakers across the social sector and beyond.
The programme learning will be guided by Clore Social Leadership’s Social Capabilites Framework and Leadership Development Model (both below). Using our Social Capabilities Framework you will be guided to develop inspirational, empowering,
courageous, focused, passionate and generous leadership capabilities - qualities essential to any effective leader.
You will learn how and what these skills and behaviours look like in action, where your strengths and areas of improvement lie, and how you can develop and encourage them in yourselves and others.
Leadership development must start with self-awareness. The most successful leaders critically assess their strengths, weaknesses, motivations and values. Leadership is tough, so it is also important to build physical and
emotional resilience, and look after their own wellbeing so they can respond effectively to leadership challenges.
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Social sector ‘systems’ are rapidly changing. We live in a dynamic world that is transforming our workplaces, politics, ethics and communities. To meet these demands, social leaders need to understand the complexities of
changing systems. They must also be aware of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead to steer their teams and organisations, and make the most of what these changes offer.
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No leader exists or succeeds in isolation. Social skills and empathy are required to inspire, motivate and empower others, whilst respecting diversity and celebrating the power that difference brings. Working with and through
others involves collaborating, forming partnerships, as well as inspiring and growing other leaders, all while making a positive social impact.
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- Empowers others to take on new challenges and training
- Role model to others, pursues continuous self-development
- Cultivates an environment where others can excel
- Exhibits a growth mindset, with a readiness to learn
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- Continuously seeks organisational improvement for the people they serve
- Reflective and utilises complex information
- Delivers on outcomes
- Resourceful and strategic, considers wider systems and context
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- Cause-passionate, committed to the mission and people they serve
- Strong moral compass
- Wide civic responsibility, engages in debate and activities
- Looks within and beyond sector to find solutions for social change
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- Establishes and grows collaborative partnerships and relationships
- Generously shares information, assets and time
- Builds trust through seeking and giving feedback
- Invites inclusive contribution, valuing skills and knowledge, respecting diversity
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- Courageous and drives change
- Responsible risk taker
- Develops innovative solutions with and through others
- Curious, has foresight and asks why
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- Relates to others with authenticity
- Influential and confident
- Clear expression of mission and values
- Agile, able to modify approach and reframe based on feedback
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Week one
Know Yourself, Be Yourself, Look After Yourself
Week one is about developing a clearer understanding of your leadership style through personal reflection. It is focused on reviewing the personal qualities that social leaders have and how they’re demonstrated, providing a great opportunity
to increase self-awareness.
Week two
Assessing Context
Week two is all about taking a step back and asking yourself "why?". Why do you do what you do? Why does your organisation exist? Diving deeper into these two fundamental questions, we'll investigate the importance of assessing and understanding context for leaders.
Week three
Working With and Through Others
None of us exists or succeeds in isolation. In week three we’ll look at how you work with and through others. We'll challenge you to look at how your teams currently work and help you understand how your leadership can impact the team.
Week four
Take Action
Week four consolidates the learning from the last three weeks and helps you chart the next steps in your leadership development. This final week you will gather your insights and create an actionable Leadership Development Plan to
help you continue your leadership journey.
The journey
Designed to fit around and complement your day-to-day work, the programme is structured over four weeks, each week containing a practical and reflective task for you to complete before the end of the week, focusing on a core component
of social leadership.
Tasks
Tasks won't be assessed, but we strongly recommend completing them to solidify learning.
Time commitment
To get the most out of your learning, we recommend allocating around 2-4 hours a week on the programme and interacting with your peers on the programme as much as possible.
Live Classrooms
During the programme there are two online Live Classrooms (first and third Thursdays, 12:30 - 13:30 GMT) where you and your cohort will discuss the issues you've been working on.
This course is for anyone who wants to develop themselves as social leaders. Past participants in previous programmes have included charity leaders, public sector employees, social entrepreneurs, team leaders, consultants, students
and more. The main criteria is a curiosity for and willingness to reflect and apply new tools and learning.
It’s different from person to person but we suggest allocating 2-4 hours a week on Discover. As with most things, the more you immerse yourself in the programme, the more you’ll get out of it.
Yes. The course is designed to be flexible to your schedules. The course will require you to spend 2-4 hours per week.
Yes. This course is for anyone who leads projects, meetings, activities, etc. in a work context. It is for formal and informal leaders alike, with a focus on the traits of leadership that are not restricted to formal managers.
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