Our Course Categories
What are our Course Categories?
The course categories provide our learning landscape.
Each category is prefaced by “To …”: Framed this way, with the most direct action verb that we could use, the list becomes a leadership and learning praxis model — not just a curriculum map.
It represents our cumulative experiences as, first and foremost, senior practitioners and our immersion in the theories and models of practice for learning and application.
The categories provide the foundation for our courses. Each builds on the aim and rationale for its category and is designed and delivered with direct relevance to the learning context; this context ranges from individual through teams, departments, organisations, and even networks.
The design is governed by our four levels of learning, each tailored to the context – bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
Scroll to our summary of Course Categories
BE - Your Authentic Self
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Identity, values, presence, ethics
Rationale:
Who you are as a leader shapes everything you do.
Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
Why · Who · How (impact)
Exploring WHO the leader is:
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
• Leadership Foundations
• Leadership Quomodo
• Values-Based & Ethical Leadership
• Selfless Leadership in Practice
• Leadership Presence & Credibility
• Reflective Leadership Practice
UNDERSTAND — Systems, Sense-Making & Judgement
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Sense-Making, Systems & Judgement
Rationale:
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Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
What · Where · Why
How leaders understand complexity
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
• Systems Thinking for Leaders
• Adaptive Leadership
• Strategic Sense-Making
• Cognitive Bias & Decision Quality
• Risk, Uncertainty & Trade-offs
• Strategic Foresight & Scenarios
MOVE - Leading Change and Transformation
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Change, transformation, influence
Rationale:
Creating momentum when change is constant.
Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
When · Why · How (impact)
How leaders create movement:
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
• Leading Change: Beyond Kotter
• Organisational Culture & Power
• Sustaining Transformation
• Networked & Informal Change
• Change Fatigue & Adaptive Capacity
ENGAGE — Influence, Negotiation & Relationships
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Negotiation, dialogue, relationships
Rationale:
Working with others to align interests, both common and differing..
Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
Who · What · How (impact)
How leaders work with others:
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
• Essential Negotiation Skills
• Advanced & High-Stakes Negotiation
• Difficult Conversations
• Conflict, Mediation & Resolution
• Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment
• Influence Without Authority
CREATE — Innovation, Design & Re-imagination
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Creativity, innovation, design, participation, re-imagination, co-creation
Rationale:
Designing better futures with those who will live them.
Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
What (could be) · Who · How (impact)
How leaders create possibility
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
- Design Thinking for Leaders
- Human-Centred Innovation
- Co-Creation & Participation
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Service & Systems Re-Design
- Innovation for Social & Public Value
DECIDE — Crisis, Risk & High-Pressure Leadership
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Crisis leadership, ethical judgement under pressure.
Rationale:
Exercising judgement when time, risk, and consequence collide.
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Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
When · What · How (impact)
How leaders create possibility
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
- Crisis Leadership and Risk
- Decision-making under Pressure
- Planning for the inevitable
- Ethical judgement and accountability
- Learning and recovery after a crisis
- Management of Disasters, Civil Emergencies
DELIVER — Capability, Performance & Execution
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Capability, accountability, governance, high-performing teams
Rationale:
Turning intent into consistent outcomes.
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Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
How · When · What
How leaders create possibility
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
- Leadership Capability & Capacity
- High-Performing Teams
- Talent Management
- Leadership, Management and Goverance
- Mutual and Shared Accountability
- Creating a Learning Organisation
CONTRIBUTE — Systems, Society & the Future
Key Themes for Learning and Leading:
Social economy, generative leadership, cross-sector systems, sustainability.
Rationale:
Leading beyond the organisation, for lasting impact.
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Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed
Why · Where · How (impact)
How leaders create possibility
`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context
- Leading through Uncertainty
- Wicked Problems and Clumsy Solutions
- Leading the Social Economy
- Generative Leadership
- Leadership for Sustainable Futures
- Innovation for Social & Public Value
