The course is designed with a focus on action learning.

It consists of six full-day workshops (36 learning hours in total).

These workshops will combine staff expertise, experiential learning and small and large group discussion with experiential exercises.

This course will be delivered remotely using Zoom.

You will need a device with a microphone and camera together with a suitably fast internet connection. Although mobile devices and tablets can be used, we recommend the use of a laptop or desktop PC for the best experience. Some devices provided by employers may have restrictions in place. Please use this Zoom test link to check your set up before booking.

You will be sent the necessary login link about a week before the course start date. Should you have any concerns about the accessibility of remote delivery please contact us to discuss how we can best help you.

Over the course you will:

• explore your own leadership journey, developing your skills and abilities drawing on the personal and professional in the context of the organisation and your relationships and privileging values
• develop a theoretical overview, applying a range of systemic ideas to work situations – including a whole systems approach, coordinated management of meaning, social constructionism and narrative ideas
• understand yours and other participants’ organisations and positions within these, observing and reflect on ways of communicating and the range of possibilities available to you in your practice
• explore the task of systemic leadership, management and consultation
• develop skills in reflexive leadership, including taking up an ‘observer position’ in relation to your own behaviour and actions and those of others to effect change
• examine political, social and organisational contexts– systemic ideas are used to help make sense of the contradictions and complexities that occur in a variety of organisational cultures both within and between these and external environments
• apply an active stance towards challenging injustice and oppression, exploring differential power, honouring diversity and cultivating small acts of resistance, radical candour and constructive awkwardness
• reflect on the management of change – the challenge for leadership is how to manage and lead organisations that will survive but maintain their core values and identities within new contexts

Some knowledge of systemic ideas is useful, but not essential. Please outline any relevant experience on the application form.

Library membership

Included in your course fee, you will receive online membership to the Tavistock’s internationally-renowned library for the duration of your course.

Our friendly and knowledgeable library team will help to support you through your specialist CPD course, whatever your level of professional or academic experience. You will have access to an extensive range of eBooks, online journals, all the relevant key databases and our specialist audio-visual collection, plus reference access to all our print books.

Our information skills trainer has made lots of material available on Moodle to help you navigate our comprehensive electronic collections. PCs and photocopiers are available for your use (charges apply for printing and copying), as well as various online resources including audio/video playlists.

Between the modules, one session will be devoted to facilitated consultations where delegates will be able to practice using the tools learnt in the first sessions to the resolution of a workplace dilemma relevant to their setting.