Launching April 2024

Course 2: Leading Deliberately Developmental Cultures

Build and nurture the culture within your organisation -

  • Deepen your understanding of cultural components and key factors that shape cultures for any educational context

  • Have deeper clarification on where your organisation is at and the next steps for its development

  • Develop your understanding, knowledge and skills in building a culture within your organisation

  • Effectively implement tools and strategically plan the long term development of your organisation’s culture

  • Collaborate and network with like-minded professionals to enhance your leadership

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Course Overview

How will you learn?

Our approach:

  • Cohort based, therefore you will progress with the same group of learners

  • Blended learning including live virtual classroom sessions and self-paced learning

  • The course is spread over 10 weeks to allow you time to complete self-paced learning in between live sessions as well as apply what you have learnt within your context.

  • Virtual classes are held between 3pm and 5.15pm (GMT) (weekday to be confirmed) and are used to consolidate and explore learning as well as discuss how it has applied to your context and any challenges experienced

  • 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

Core activities:

  • Reflective journal

  • Talent and opportunity audit

  • Culture mapping

  • Organisational maturity diagnostic

  • 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:

  • Core components of building positive and progressive cultures within education settings

  • How your leadership influences the culture within your workplace

  • Organisational maturity

  • Strategic cultural development

  • Nurturing organisational culture

  • Collaborative cultural development

  • Growing deliberately developmental cultures - the practicalities

Advance Your Leadership Repertoire

Do you want to move your organisation’s culture forward in a deliberately developmental approach?

Do you know where you want to take your organisation but are unsure how to do it?

Is your organisation in need of positive change?

Do you feel restricted by resistance to change and a toxic working culture?

Our Leading Deliberately Developmental Cultures Course aims to empower you with the tools understand, diagnose and take your organisation’s culture forward in a way that is deliberately developmental so that it can continue to evolve in the long term and benefit all stakeholders. We work with you to develop initiatives that promote positive change and align not only with your own and your organisation’s vision and values but also in consideration of the long term strategy and objectives.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed to focus on the ‘community’ aspect of leadership. It is aimed educators in senior positions within their organisation who:

  • See a development opportunity within their organisation’s culture

  • Are experiencing resistance within their organisation or their organisation has a history of a toxic and unhealthy working culture

  • Are seeking to grow their organisation’s culture

  • Want to better understand and implement tools and practices effectively to evolve their organisation’s culture to be deliberately developmental

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What do you gain?

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For yourself:

  • A deeper understanding of key cultural elements and how cultures develop within educational organisations

  • Understanding, skills and knowledge of how you in your leadership role can drive positive cultural change within your organisation

  • Skills to maintain positive change within your organisation’s culture

  • Enhanced knowledge and skills in utilising diagnostic tools to initiate change, monitor progress and maintain and review changes within your organisation’s culture and development

  • Enhanced capacity to lead change within your organisation

  • Confidence in the long-term cultural development of your team and organisation which benefits all key stakeholders more widely

  • Access to key tools for deliberately developmental cultural development

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Benefits for your students:

  • Part of a positive learning culture focused around holistic development

  • Enhanced focus on their individual development giving them increased autonomy and choice

  • Development of critical thinking skills and a life long learning mindset through emphasis on continuous learning

  • Increased opportunity for collaborative learning experience through focus on development

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Benefits for your team:

  • Understanding values and therefore motivations and drivers within the team

  • A robust change management process

  • Alignment across individuals, teams and the organisation

  • Improved systems and processes within the organisation

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Benefits for your organisation:

  • Enhanced employee engagement with individuals feeling valued and supported

  • Cultivation of a pool of effective leaders as employees are given opportunity for and encouraged to take on more responsibility

  • Improved problem solving through a culture of open dialogue, collaboration and psychological safety

  • Increased creativity and innovation which encourages risk-taking and learning from mistakes which drives the forward-thinking of the organisation

  • A more adaptable and agile workforce aligned with the organisation mission, vision and values