This course focuses on how YOU 'turn up' as a leader, using virtual mechanisms of connection, communication and engagement:

• Understand the substantial differences in leading virtually, when compared to co-located leadership.
• Take charge of your own presence, voice and connection with others, and make choices about how you communicate your leadership authority.
• Build your confidence to run meetings which are more engaging, participative and impactful.
• Build sustainable team connectivity using both synchronous and asynchronous mechanisms.

Using yourself as a generative and authoritative presence, which helps others to connect, trust and collaborate better, creates the right conditions to then move on to more advanced leadership practices in the virtual and hybrid space.

This course helps you:

• Understand the challenges and opportunities around team performance and innovation that working remotely or in hybrid settings creates.
• Focus on processes and behaviours that build trust and psychological safety, which underpin the potential of sustainable performance, productivity and belonging.
• Enhance your skills, with advanced techniques and approaches to virtual meeting design, in particular tackling problems of multi-tasking, dis-engagement and ownership problems.
• Build confidence leading in a new way - as a convener and facilitator of creative networks.

Going virtual or hybrid as a long-term way of working is not only a technological change - it implies new models of leadership, which in turn means a shift to some of the practices normally associated with professional facilitators and group coaches - and this will help set you up for a more productive team.

Even if you have mastered the techniques and leadership practices of the remote workplace, the research over 2020-21 has shown that remote and hybrid working carries some very real risks of burnout, isolation, loss of networks and innovation, and in some cases, real degradation of mental health and with it, productivity and performance.

This course helps you:

• Understand, in depth, the learnings from the global research over the pandemic period - and the implications for leaders seeking a long-term move to remote or hybrid working.
• Focus on processes and behaviours that restore your sense of autonomy and choicefulness, rebuild boundaries and productive self-care practices, and provide practical ideas you can develop with your teams and colleagues.
• Enhance your skills, with advanced techniques and approaches to refreshing your team's sense of purpose and values, and orienting them around strengths and commitments.
• Bounce-forward together with practical ideas for developing 'learner' (or growth) mindset, resilience and adaptive capacity, and finding supportive ways of working with stress, uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Build confidence in designing and leading the hybrid workplace - with the latest ideas on design, work-process and community building.

Living with work-from-anywhere combined with some work-in-the-office creates new tensions and opportunities - from emerging issues around fairness and power dynamics to opportunities for a truly globalised workforce - it means taking bold steps to maximise the benefits while being very aware of the risks.

Your programme, course or module will be accessible to you for 1 year from the time you start it.

However in each lesson there are also PDFs, tools, products and exercises, that we think you will want to keep – you can download them, or print them.

All significant learning commitments require some dedication.  This means making conscious choices, and carving out the time to acquire, experiment with, and reflect on what you are exploring.  Sometimes, this is going to clash with other priorities and occasionally it might feel a little overwhelming – even for the most dedicated learner.  If you know that a busy period is coming up, plan for catch-up time in the weeks that follow.

Some of our longer programmes involve following a specific timetable with a group – with new modules ‘starting’ at a given time.  This may tie in with Peer Support Group meetings, and/or with workshops or webinars.  If this is the case for your programme, an important aspect is that you are not alone – but in a community of learners.  The timings of ‘live’ experiences or group meetings are rarely changed once the programme starts, as this would impact negatively on your colleagues and co-learners.  Keeping up with others, so that you share your learning and benefit from their experience, is important.

Get into the learning habit, and if you have concerns about whether you will be able to do this, and if you fall behind at any time, just reach out to us and we will try to help.

Some of our courses are already bundled, in particular the shorter courses shown in our ‘bitesize’ section.  If the course you are interested in IS available in a value-for-money bundle, proceed with your purchase, and before closing the ‘sale’, you will be notified of this choices at your ‘Cart’.

If the other courses you are interested in are not bundled right now, just contact us, as we can put a custom bundle together for you.

Many of our programmes and short (bite-size) courses have been originally developed especially for a client – and, where appropriate, then adapted for a broader audience and turned into an ‘open’ programme.  It is our clients around the world that ‘pull’ new content and commission what we go on to build, to meet their needs at any given time.

If you would like to either curate a custom programme from our existing stock, or you have an area of new content that you would like us to look at, just contact us and we can help.

Our courses and materials are getting great feedback from users – but of course it might not suit exactly what you are looking for.

We are always happy to refund you if you start a course and find it isn’t what you wanted.  Please contact us straight after completing the first lesson in the course if you would like us to refund your payment or switch you to a more suitable product. 

Please note that we are unable to refund a course that has been more than 50% completed.