Leading Community Foundations -
Experienced Leader

Through self-reflection, you'll gain valuable insights into your strengths and areas for growth, enabling you to effectively communicate, collaborate, and lead with authenticity and compassion. The programme will provide you a refresher of the tools and knowledge needed to inspire and motivate others, make informed decisions, and drive meaningful change.

Gain the confidence to navigate complex, uncertain, and ever-changing contexts. The programme will empower you to develop a strong sense of self-assurance in your ability to lead. Through practical exercises and real-world examples, you'll learn effective strategies to tackle challenges head-on.

Become more effective in your role and gain practical skills to empower and motivate your team members, fostering a collaborative and impact-driven environment. You'll gain the knowledge and tools needed to maximise your team’s productivity and achieve your organisation’s goals. You’ll have the skills and tools to pass on your learning to others, cascading leadership development to those you work with.

Throughout the programme you will be supported to embrace and work on the challenges your organisation is currently facing. Whether it's improving equity focused leadership, fostering innovation, or enabling systems change, we will help you lead your organisation towards greater impact for the communities you serve.

Past participants report that the support they received from their peers during and after the programme was vital in their journey to becoming more effective leaders. Together, you'll embark on a transformative leadership journey, forming meaningful connections, friendships and bonds that will positively impact your professional and personal growth.

Discover your unique self, your true purpose, and understand the impact you have on others. Enhance your communication skills and build stronger relationships, while also safeguarding yourself and your teams from burnout and anxiety. It will help you cultivate healthier and more fulfilling work.

Through a series of self-paced online learning modules, paired with virtual learning days and peer learning circles, you will learn about key social leadership skills and behaviours and what these look like in action, supporting you to develop them in yourself and others.

Themed workshops, delivered online, will include Diversity and Inclusion, and Systems and Futures Thinking.

During four weeks at the start of the programme, you will explore the fundamentals of leadership, which will support you to be more effective and equip you with the skills and confidence to thrive in your role. For more information on Discover, please click here.

You will devise a development plan to help you set goals, identify areas for growth and establish a roadmap for your development.

Over two days, you will be guided through deep exploration of your self and purpose, including examination of your Lumina Spark psychometric portrait. You will put these insights into practice, and delve into focused workshops on Strategic Leadership and Collaboration and Collective Impact.

Through three 1:1 sessions you will work with a professional coach to tap into your talent and overcome barriers that might be holding you back, helping to increase your resilience, efficiency, and performance - and get one step closer to achieving your professional and personal goals.

With a small group of peers, you will regularly come together in an inclusive and confidential space to aid reflective learning. You will present on challenges you face and, with the support of the Set, deepen your understanding of the situation and possible solutions, finding the answers within yourself and through learning from one another. As well as providing practical solutions to real-world issues, Action Learning promotes a culture of coaching; supporting you to refine your coaching skills, which can then be applied within your organisation. You will be invited to return a year after completing the programme for an additional round of Action Learning, supporting your ongoing development and learning.

This individualised psychometric profile tool inspires people to develop skills most needed in the workplace - adaptability, agility, a growth mind-set, partnering, authenticity and the ability to lead self and others. By completing the profile and participating in an interactive guided session, you will discover your underlying motivators and hidden potential, understand your everyday behaviours and how you respond to pressure, and learn how to improve working with and through others to more effectively lead your organisation and deliver change in the sector.