Leading People and Programmes

Training and coaching for team leaders, middle managers and programme leads

Whether you’re new to the world of leading groups of people through change, or need to step up your effectiveness, Leading People and Programmes can help youand your team.

This is a blended learning, action and coaching programme. You will:

learn about the success factors for leading groups of people in programmes of work
gain new insights into your style and strengths as a leader
grow your effectiveness in communicating, planning and leading groups of staff or volunteers

It’s really important that you have great ideas about what needs to be done in your work. But without the right approach to planning and leadership, you’re going to be disappointed again and again. The good news is that leadership can be learned – and this programme will give you practical insights and tools to increase the success and sustainability of your programmes.

Across 9 modules, you will encounter new ideas, deepen your understanding of yourself, improve your insights into other people and develop your skills to plan and lead a programme of work. Whether you lead staff, volunteers or both, together we will become more effective, more confident and more resilient.

Connecting with motivation

Understanding others’ motivations and connecting more readily with them

Growing your style and strengths

Assessing how you lead and developing how you deploy your strengths

Strategic planning

Seeing the big picture and enaging others in creating effective strategic plans

Managing projects

Planning and delivering work on time, on budget and together

Rolling with resistance

Meeting obstacles head-on without fear or failure

Managing people

Making this a great team and unleashing the potential of each person in it

Handling 'problem people'

Growing understanding, effectiveness and confidence to address people challenges

The leader as coach

Developing the insights and skills to coach your team to success

Measuring what matters

Designing and using data that intrigues, inspires and improves the programme

Get this for your leaders

This programme is available now from Robert Varnam, and delivery can often begin in as little as a month.

We can be very flexible about the structure and format of the programme, and will work with you to create a tailored offering for your leaders. Choices include:

format: in-person / online / hybrid
depth: basic / intermediate / advanced
add-ons: personal psychometric assessments, 360 assessments, team culture surveys, expert review of strategic plans, one-to-one executive coaching

3 choices of depth:

6 half-day workshops

Interactive learning workshops introducing key concepts and techniques
Personal core motivations assessment with Strength Deployment Inventory
Take-away learning resources

10 half-day workshops

Interactive learning workshops introducing key concepts and techniques
Personal core motivations assessment with Strength Deployment Inventory
Action learning sets to deepen understanding and solve issues together
Take-away learning resources

12 full-day workshops

Interactive learning workshops getting into the detail of key concepts and techniques
Personal core motivations assessment with Strength Deployment Inventory
Group coaching to understand and develop personal strengths
Action learning and online platform for ongoing learning and progress
Take-away learning resources

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BASIC programme. Typically 6 sessions. INTERMEDIATE programme. Typically 10 sessions FULL programme. Typically 12 sessions

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