Are you a manager or leader in Higher Education who:
- Wants to fully take up your role as leader
- Wants to support improved team dynamics
- Wants more meaningful and effective conversations with your staff?
- Wants to help staff develop their own solutions to everyday problems?
- Wants to help your team to cope better with uncertainty?
If the answers are yes, then this leadership development programme may be for you. This course provides an opportunity to reflect upon your leadership style, understand how to lead in a way that builds resilience and confidence both in yourself and your staff and develop skills to lead and manage in a way that enhances productivity.
What previous attendees have said about this course:
Head of Mental Health and Psychological Therapy Services. ‘I started the course feeling depleted, deskilled, marginalised and undermined as a leader. The balance of reflection, experiential learning and theory has helped and supported me to feel more skilled and has given me a rounded understanding of the context I work in. I feel better able to consider and understand the challenges, changes and the structure of the services that I work in’.
Academic Director. ‘This programme increased my confidence and capability in understanding team dynamics and the role of leadership in generating and maintaining healthy, performing teams’.
The online programme will focus on the following:
- How to fully take up your role as leader; how to manage your authority in role, hold individuals and teams to account, manage boundaries, and encourage quality engagement with the work.
- How to understand team dynamics, create and maintain an environment that supports wellbeing and enhances performance and outcomes.
- How to understand dynamics across different parts of the organisation and the impact on your team / department.
- How to understand the impact of external influences upon your institution, your department / team, your staff and your role.
- How to lead and support teams through change and uncertainty.
- How to use a coaching style approach to enhance performance and develop staff and students.
Participants will have the opportunity to build a supportive peer learning group as they progress through the programme. There will be work to complete in between modules.
This programme is for you if you are a manager or leader in an academic department or support services in Higher Education.
The next cohort of this programme:
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• Module 1. 11th and 12th of March 2025 (online)
• Module 2. 8th and 9th of April 2025 (online)
• Module 3. 6th May 2025 (online)
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Midge Seymour-Roots
Midge is an experienced Organisational Consultant, Executive Coach, and Educator. Skilled in leadership development, change management, and reflective practice, she has worked with complex systems across varying sectors. Her consultancy practice is informed by her previous experience as a leader, manager and clinician in the NHS and Higher Education.
Having lived and worked across two different cultures and countries, Midge has in-depth understanding of trauma, loss, and cultural competence. She recognises the intersection between gender, race, ethnicity, and disability in the workplace. An additional strength lies in her ability to use the self as instrument, which enables her to bring authenticity and compassion to her practice.
Midge is a Visiting Lecturer on the D10 Masters in Consulting and Leading in Organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a senior accredited psychodynamic psychotherapist (Snr Accred MBACP) and EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level.
David Sibley
David is one of our organisational consultants. He draws on his experience of working across various sectors. Whilst working in higher education he developed and led a mental health advisory service for students with severe and enduring mental health issues utilising a systems-psychodynamic approach. He has experience in the operational delivery and development of services, working with organisational dilemmas, critical incidents, team performance and staff wellbeing. As an experienced BACP accredited counsellor and supervisor he recently published an article in the BACP UC magazine on a systemic staff wellbeing project!
Skilled in creating collaborative and creative spaces, he is interested in the future of work, the evolving interaction between people and technology and how organisations adapt to the post-pandemic turbulent environment.
Proudly dyslexic and passionate about learning he is interested in how identity and difference is experienced and seen in the workplace and across organisational networks. He is a graduate of the D10 Masters in Leading & Consulting in Organisations. He loves helping people to think about their experiences of work and to enable individuals, leaders, their teams, and organisation to discover hidden knowledge that can increase impact, performance, and collaboration.
£2,500 early bird rate (ending 3rd February 2025)
£2,700 standard rate
You will receive:
-5 days of programme delivery in a cohort of 16 participants
-2 hours of one to one coaching
-Programme workbook, slides, handouts
-Certificate of attendance
-Network of higher education leaders
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