Leadership Programmes

The six week ‘Introduction of Social Leadership’ programme provides a broad overview of leadership at the intersection of systems, and how we can develop the social authority, reputation, and skills, to operate in this space.

Topics that we cover include:

• Context of the Social Age – our changing world and the need for a new model of leadership. Interconnected, fair, authentic.
• Curation and Community – choosing your space, building your communities, walking the boundaries.
• Leading with Trust – the social currencies and how we earn them, tribal structures and trust, cost and consequence.
• Reputation and Social Authority – our stories and shadows, the foundations of our power, the imperfection of leadership.
• The Storytelling Leader – story telling and story listening, filters and vocabulary, dominant narratives and change.
• In Dialogue with your Practice – looking at how we bring Social Leadership into our everyday practice. Considering our intention, our actions, and our engagement with our impact

There is supplementary reading and delegates are also invited to be part of the ‘Social Leadership Daily’ community, which provides sixty seconds a day of questions, activities, and challenges to bring Social Leadership into your daily practice. https://dailyquestions.substack.com

For leaders who wish to broaden their leadership into wider community spaces, and are responsible for culture and change.

Format

Virtual

Duration

6 weeks, 1 hour each week

Investment

£450 £375+VAT (T&L member price)

Enquiries & Enrolment

Contact Renée Takken – renee.takken@seasaltlearning.com

The six week Culture Explorer programme allows leaders to explore perspectives on how culture ‘works’, and their role to create and support it.

Topics that we cover include:

• The social structure of Organisations, and how they relate to culture
• The varied systems of power we inhabit, and how they collide
• The role that stories play in culture – both in terms of belonging and change
• How culture fails – and the cost and consequence of this
• Ownership and individual agency in the creation and evolution of culture
• Our role as Culture Explorers

The theme of this programme is not about what you can do ‘to’ culture, not about how you can ‘build’ it, as if it were Lego, but rather about how you can weave it.

Through a deeper appreciation of the mechanisms of how culture really works (and as a hint, it’s about adding an ‘s’, to see culture as many things that are interconnected) we can better shape our thoughts and action as part of reflective practice.

This programme is for leaders who seek to influence culture, in service of the effectiveness of their broader Organisations.

Format

Virtual

Duration

6 weeks, 90 minutes each week

Investment

£950+VAT

Enquiries & Enrolment

Contact Renée Takken – renee.takken@seasaltlearning.com

This four week programme is an exploration of your individual power, and the potential you hold. It takes a stance that the lens of ‘power’ is a fundamental one through which to understand any system – formal or social – but to break down exactly what type of power you hold, and how power ‘works’.

• The Mechanisms of your Power – considering how power is held within systems (such as hierarchy, reputation, trust, expertise) and how these systems of power intersect (to negate, reflect, refract each other).
• The Impact of your Power – considers how your power creates impact both in the light and the shadows. We explore the good you can do and the harm you prevent, but also specifically how you ‘hear’ this impact. This is part of a broader notion, which is build out separately in the Quiet Leadership’ work, viewing the Organisation as Ecosystem, and how we each cast shadows.
• The Shape of your Power – considers reach and edges, boundaries and limits, between the different systems (e.g. your formal and social power). What reaches where, and where are you powerless. This is part of a reflection on the power you have been given, or earned, and what you may need.
• The Fragility of your Power – is an exploration of the humility of leadership, how you carry doubt and fear, and experience consequence. It explores fundamental aspects of power: that all power has limits, all power carries a cost (and who pays it), and that all power can be opposed.

Create new lenses for your leadership to navigate the challenges of a changing world.

Format

Virtual

Duration

4 weeks, 1 hour each week

Resources

There is an accompanying book for the programme

Investment

£950+VAT

Enquiries & Enrolment

Contact Renée Takken – renee.takken@seasaltlearning.com

This is one our most challenging and experimental journeys. Also one of our favourite!

In 2019 Julian wrote ‘To the Moon and Back – Leadership Reflections from Apollo’, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Moon Missions. This programme is built in that space, so we use Apollo as a case study, and have some fun with it.

• Consider the ‘Shape of Complexity’, how broadly we perceive it, and how we understand the edges to our operation.
• Look at ‘bounded’ complexity, within systems, and ask how it is formed or found. We examine the rulebooks of our safety.
• Explore how we hold Failure, and the roles of systems, exhaustion, and familiarity in the way that it operates.
• Look at the ‘folklore’ of failure, and how it persists and acts upon us.
• Consider what we seek to Control, and whether this gives us opportunity, or limitation.
• Identify opportunity at the boundary of failure, and our structural ability to operate in this Space.

This programme is offered as a face to face workshop.

Find opportunities at the boundaries of failure, and construct scaffolds of resilience.

Format

Face-to-face workshop

Duration

1 day

Resources

There is an accompanying book for this programme.

Investment

£1,250+VAT
25% T&L discount available for 6+ people – enquire for details

Enquiries & Enrolment

Contact Renée Takken – renee.takken@seasaltlearning.com