Social Leaders North East

Discover and develop the fundamental skills and behaviours that can ensure success at a grassroots, community level. Get to know yourself, your unique purpose and the impact you have on others better, to improve communication skills and relationships, and prevent burnout and anxiety for yourself and your team. Through these skills and a supportive network, the programme will empower you to develop revitalised, agile and resilient leadership, to manage through challenging social situations and crises.

The programme will boost your confidence in your leadership abilities, with you gaining the knowhow and resilience to navigate the pressures, complexity, uncertainty that social leaders face throughout their career. In addition, through self-reflection, seeking feedback and exposure to diverse leaders, you'll gain valuable insights into your style, strengths and areas for growth. By the end of the programme you will be more self-assured and authentic in your leadership.

You'll become more effective in your role, learning how to enable high-performance within your projects and teams. This programme demonstrates how to inspire, resolve conflict, and set effective goals for truly outstanding work. You'll be able to position yourself as a trusted team leader, with a clear, concise vision.

You'll be supported with tools and strategies for building resilience and fostering wellbeing, which will support with managing stress, preventing burnout and maintaining a healthy work-life balance, ensuring you can lead with vitality and sustainability. By focusing on personal resilience and wellbeing, you'll improve your approach to work and enhance your ability to support and inspire your team and community, leaving the programme as an effective leader ready to make a lasting positive impact.

Meet other community leaders and develop a strengthened network of supportive peers. Investing in relationships with your cohort enables you to create a joined-up vision that can inspire and motivate others. Past cohorts have found the support they receive from their peers during and after the programme essential in their journey to becoming a better leader. We encourage the development of strong relations with your peers for long lasting advice, guidance and friendship.

Throughout the programme you'll be supported to embrace and work on the challenges your project or organisation is currently facing, developing practical, long-lasting solutions that you can take back into the workplace.

You will receive 360 feedback from people you work with to gain a better understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, which will feed into your Leadership Development Plan and inform our programme delivery. To support this, we will take you through a brief needs assessment to help us better understand your current skills, aspirations and development areas.

Over a six-week period, you will explore the fundamentals of leadership at the start of the programme, which will support you to be more effective and equip you with the skills and confidence to take on more significant roles. It will include inclusive and diverse resources throughout, promoting engagement of individuals from various backgrounds and experiences. You will devise a Leadership Development Plan to help you set goals, identify areas for growth and establish a roadmap for skill development. For more information on Discover, please click here.

Through three one-to-one 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.

This powerful personality profiling system provides a unique portrait of who you are, helping you increase your self-awareness, reveal hidden potential and help you understand how you behave under pressure. This includes a full-day training session. For more information on Lumina Spark, please click here.

Over two days, you will be guided through a series of workshops and activities that strengthen cohort connections, explore some of the key challenges faced by the sector and learn more about yourself through Lumina Spark psychometric self portrait. You will have the opportunity to hear directly from experienced social leaders, including their key lessons, failures and tips they learnt along the way. Through these stories you will be learning key leadership lessons whilst also growing your network.

Through additional sessions, participants will be able to learn new skills from one another, enhancing their professional development and effectiveness in their roles. The diverse experiences of the cohort will provide ample opportunities for peer learning and mutual support, with a shared understanding of their community roles. Sessions will be tailored based on cohort feedback, focusing on common local issues such as fundraising, homelessness and diversity.