Leadership Difference Programme Details

Core modules

Leader as coach

This practical module will explore the values and skills that underpin effective coaching, to support you in enabling others to maximise their potential, to perform well and to become more confident and self-accepting. Module aims include:

To identify the value of coaching and the values of good coaches
To examine the impact of coaching on performance, self-awareness and accountability
To practice key coaching skills

Leading self

Self-awareness (learning how we see, experience and respond to people and situations) is vital if we are then to positively affect people and situations in a leadership capacity. This module aims to:

To explore and observe our self-perception as leaders
To identify how our motivations and drivers affect our leadership and the environments we create
To understand power and influence in our roles as leaders

Leading systems

When operating in change and complex challenges, leaders and teams need to work increasingly across boundaries, build wider partnerships and become comfortable with multiple uncertainties. In this module we will explore a variety of perspectives on organisational systems and how your leadership skills and strategies can affect your particular system. This module aims to:

To explore the role of leadership within a system for positive change
To assess opportunities for collaboration
To build trust and opportunities for co-creation through transformative conversation

Leading teams

Highly effective teams are one of the clearest determiners of a successful and competitive organisation. All employees should have the opportunity to experience the cohesion and achievement of outstanding teaming. In this module you will explore the role of leadership in driving team effectiveness, and the impact of leadership on team culture.

To quantify the characteristics of high performing teams
To identify the key tasks and conversations for effective team leaders
To empower teams through the creation of an environment of trust.

Optional webinars

90 minute webinars available throughout the Spring Term covering (provisional) topics:

Protecting team time
Goal-setting
Developing leadership wisdom
Leading in demanding times
Leading through change
Conflict management and resolution

Annual Leadership Celebration

Keynote speakers
Celebration of completers
Lunch and Networking

Target audience

Those in existing leadership positions who are comfortable with day-to-day people management and wish to develop more strategic leadership approaches, understand their personal impact and role in enabling high performing systems.

Time commitment

Core (5 cohorts with various start points throughout Terms 1 and 2), spread over 3-4 months:

1x 60 minute welcome webinar and
4x 2.5 hour in person module sessions

Plus and optional 60 minute 1:1 coaching session at the start of the whole programme

Sign-up

Each Faculty and Division have places allocated across the 5 cohorts running at different points throughout the 2024/25 academic year.

Nominees are put forward by Faculty and Division Senior Leadership at intake periods each year (September and December). Please speak to your Line Manager if you are interested in the programme.

If you have any queries please email People Development or Janice Button (Learning and Development Manager, Exeter Academic).