Lead and manage: Best self, great teams, amazing together 2023
Lead and manage: Best self, great teams, amazing together is a four-month leadership programme. We 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.
In 2023
In 2023 we worked with 14 people from 12 organisations across two learning groups. The spring-summer learning group completed their programme in July 2023, and we’ve published a feedback and impact report to share the difference it made to them. The autumn-winter learning group finished in December 2023, and their feedback and impact report shares their thoughts.
Want to join us in 2024 and 2025?
We’re running the programme in 2024 and 2025. We’re now taking bookings for spring-summer 2024 or autumn-winter 2024. 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 2025.
You can also talk to us if you’d like us to run this in a specific area of the north east or as an internal programme for your organisation.
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.