Lead and manage: Best self, great teams, amazing together 2025
Lead and manage: Best self, great teams, amazing together is a four-month leadership programme. We’ll focus on what we think is important for all of us in leadership roles — being your best self, being part of and leading great teams, and working on amazing things together.
Our Lead and manage programme is central to our mission of developing social leadership and is part of our contribution to developing our north east voluntary, community and social enterprise sector workforce. We know our sector is full of great people doing great work, but we also know there are too few opportunities for us to connect, learn, develop and grow. We're committing to running this twice a year for three years - 2023 to 2025 - as part of our contribution to developing our workforce.
More about the programme
The programme is three full days — one day a month for each of our three leadership frameworks Best self, Great teams, Amazing together — and two half days to help us start and end well. These are energising days to learn together — from us and each other — and give time out of the busyness of the day to day to reflect on your own leadership, and connect and build relationships with your peers. We give a practical introduction to key leadership and management theories, models, frameworks, tools, techniques and approaches. Each person receives a printed copy and PDF of the Best self, Great teams and Amazing together learning resource packs.
It’s about growing and developing ourselves to be able to do our best for ourselves, our organisations, and our region.
2025 dates
Spring-summer 2025
Our dates - all Wednesdays - are
30 April - Starting well
7 May - Best self
4 June - Great teams
2 July - Amazing together
16 July - Ending well
Autumn-winter 2025
Our dates - all Wednesdays - are
10 September - Starting well
24 September - Best self
22 October - Great teams
26 November - Amazing together
10 December - Ending well
We’re now taking bookings for spring-summer 2025 and autumn-winter 2025. If you’d like to find out more before booking your place, email Robert. You can also tell us you’re interested in taking part in future programmes.
You can also talk to us if you’d like us to run this in your area or as an internal programme for your organisation.
Feedback and impact
2025
Future dates TBC
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What we’ll learn together
Best self
Using the nine elements of our Best self framework as our guide, we’ll spending a day learning about
looking after ourselves and resilience
self-awareness and emotional intelligence
being organised and effective
why trust, values, beliefs, vulnerability and psychological safety matter at work
communicating open and effectively
Great teams
Using the nine elements of our Great teams framework as our guide, we’ll take a day to learn about
creating a shared purpose and direction
how to work well together to achieve our purpose
positively managing conflict and tensions
creating positive environments where everyone can succeed
Amazing together
Using our Amazing together framework as our guide, we’ll learn about
relationships and why they matter
networking and community building
collaborating and working with others, about the North East Together collaboration framework
understanding and navigating systems/ ecosystems
Starting well
We’ll start well by
connecting and forming our learning group – meeting and learning about each other
getting ready to work together – creating psychological safety, how we’ll work together, our commitments to each other
setting the scene about leadership – what it is, leadership as a practice
Ending well
We’ll end well by
looking back – reflecting on the programme and our learning and development journey
making plans – about what we’ll learn next
looking ahead – looking to the future with confidence in our individual and collective leadership, deciding what your learning group will do next together
celebrating our achievements
“As you become a senior leader, your role can become lonelier. Not only does “Yes we can” give you tools and strategies to lead more effectively, it also connects you with peers in a similar situation and helps you develop new networks.”
