Next Cohort April 2025
Course 1: Human Leadership
Clarify your values and understand yourself as a leader -
Have deeper clarification of your personal values and understanding of how they align with your team, organisation and system culture
Effectively use human and specifically adult development theory, self determination theory and positive psychology to widen your perspective and insight into successes and challenges and inform your decision making across a range of contexts
Use tools and strategies to boost and balance your energy levels and connection to others
Feel (and be) confident in your leadership
Course Overview
How will you learn?
Our approach:
Cohort based, therefore you will progress with the same group of learners (also in senior leadership positions)
Blended learning including live virtual workshops and self-paced learning
There are 4 virtual classroom sessions (and 1 shorter induction session) spread over 2 terms to allow time to complete self-paced learning in between sessions
Virtual workshops are held between 3pm and 5.15pm (GMT) (dates TBC) and are used to consolidate and explore learning
Self-paced learning content and linked activities are provided digitally via our learning platform
There is a learning community available for facilitator and peer interactions
Regular feedback and touch-points throughout the course in a range of formats
The option of Two 1:1 coaching sessions with one of our professional coaches
Core activities:
Reflective journal
Personal development map
Virtual classroom/ peer activities
What will you learn?
Advance your leadership capacity through deepening your understanding of human development theory, principles and tools
Key topics:
Human development principles
Your leadership values profile
Understanding resistance
Physiological and emotional regulation
Perspective taking
Purpose and meaning
Advance Your Leadership Performance
Are you new to senior leadership or in a new leadership role?
Are you finding it challenge to establish yourself as a leader or to bring your authentic self into your leadership?
Are you struggling to steer your organisation in the direction you want it to go or gain buy-in from your staff?
Do you have lots of strengths and ideas but feel stuck within a cycle of limited working patterns?
Our Human Leadership Course aims to breakdown entrenched working patterns to recognise strengths and interpersonal values and how these can be realised to build capacity and capabilities to lead authentically. Through our development process school and trust leaders are empowered to evolve and transform themselves and their team to greater outcomes for all stakeholders both personally and professionally.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed to focus on the ‘self’ aspect of leadership. It is aimed educators in senior positions within their organisation who:
Are seeking to expand their leadership capacity
Have taken on a new leadership position
Are seeking to enhance their leadership knowledge and practices
Are looking to better understand their own development journey and seeking guidance in their journey going forward
What do you gain?
For yourself:
Increased awareness of theory surrounding adult development and how these insights can be used within leadership and personal development
Enhanced capacity and confidence to lead your team through a deeper understanding of human development principles and influences
A better understanding your own values and motivators and how you can incorporate these authentically within your role
A personal development map (based on research and experience) illustrating your development journey so far and guiding options for your future
Goal setting and development frameworks
Benefits for your students:
Application of human performance principles for all learners of all ages and stages of development
Integration of human principles into existing curriculums and cultures
Enhanced perspective taking within leadership supporting student voice and choice within their education
Benefits for your team:
Greater insight into the perspectives of others
Understanding values and therefore motivations and drivers within the team
Greater recognition and effective use of strengths within the team to progress change
Modelling of and exposure to authentic leadership and positive culture which creates a nurturing and supportive environment for innovation and creativity.
Benefits for your organisation:
Leaders are more deeply aware of how their personal values align with the organisation
Leaders foster a culture based on openness and psychological safety due to a deep understanding of human development, and motivation.