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Discover

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.

£70/£150

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Course information

Discover the key leadership skills required for social leadership and map your future leadership journey with our four week online introductory course.

The Discover course 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.

This course is certified by The Institute of Leadership. To ensure we keep this training accessible to all, participants can now opt-in to gain a certificate by The Institute of Leadership and gain access to the award-winning MyLeadership e-learning platform for an additional £80. If you choose this option the total of the course will be £150.

Course Detail
  • 2-4 hours/week
  • All levels of experience
  • £70/£150
  • Certificate of completion
Course Features
  • 4-week course
  • Exclusively online
  • Self-paced learning
  • Peer networks
 
 
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Eligibility criteria

Leaders at all level

No matter if you’re a new manager or seasoned CEO, the course 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 course.

What our previous participants say

Outcomes

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 course 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.  

Increase your leadership potential

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What you'll learn

The course 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.

Know Yourself, Be Yourself, Look After Yourself

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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Assess Context

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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Work With And Through Others

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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Social Leadership Capabilities Framework

 

Being a social and ethical leader requires certain capabilities. The Social Leadership Capabilities Framework outlines the attributes, behaviours and skills required for successful social sector leadership. The Capabilities Framework illustrates how and what these skills and behaviours look like in action. Having a framework enables leaders to reflect and assess their current skills. It empowers them to identify leadership gaps and plan their personal and professional development.

 

Empowering Enabler

  • 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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Focused Strategist

  • 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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Passionate Advocate

  • 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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Generous Collaborator

  • 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 Changemaker

  • Courageous and drives change
  • Responsible risk taker
  • Develops innovative solutions with and through others
  • Curious, has foresight and asks why
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Inspirational Communicator

  • 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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Course outline

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 exist or succeed 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.  

How you'll learn

The journey

Designed to fit around and complement your day-to-day work, the course 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 course and interacting with your peers on the course as much as possible!

Live Classrooms (online)

During the course there are two live seminars (second and fourth Thursdays, 12:30 - 13:30 GMT) where you and your cohort will discuss the issues you've been working on.

Frequently Asked Questions

This course is for anyone who wants to develop themselves as social leaders. Past participants in previous courses 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 course, 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.

Increase your leadership potential

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