Leading From Where You Are

Dates: To be confirmed - please contact us
Time: 11am start on Wednesday, 3.30pm finish on Friday
Venue: Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Fee: £1,500 +VAT or £1,000 +VAT non-profit rate
(discounts available for multiple applications, please enquire)
Accommodation: see local hotels in Chipping Campden

We believe that you can provide significant leadership wherever you are in an organisation. By assuming a dialogic stance you can help to bring about unexpected possibilities, engage people’s hearts and minds, deliver performance breakthroughs and make a difference that matters. Everyone has the potential to do this. The core of what you have to offer is already within you and your experience of life. Through awakening and deepening your leadership journey, we will explore how you can show up more effectively in your organisation and cultivate the leadership skills in those around you.

Who is this session for?

These three days will be relevant whether you have little or extensive experience in leading through dialogue or bringing about sustainable change in an emergent way. You should benefit from participating in the session if any of the following are true for you:

You want to unleash another kind of potential in yourself and your organisation having realised the value but also the limitations of driving delivery by performance indicators
You have heard about dialogue as an alternative approach to organisational change, leadership development or coaching and want to know how this may be helpful and relevant to you and your situation
You expect to give leadership direction to those who are accountable to you, and support to those to whom you answer, but you find yourself trapped in complex issues and dilemmas and at times you are not sure what to do
You long to grow the skill and capacity of your team to talk and think together effectively having experienced miscommunications and habitual attitudinal impasses
You want to become a dialogic practitioner and need to understand the whole territory before going more deeply into specific growth areas

What will the session cover?

During the session we will engage with a range of dialogic practices, patterns and principles as well as considering case studies and leadership change models in application.

We will enquire into the whole spectrum and territory of leadership (including performance, wisdom, visionary and citizen leadership) to help you discern and understand your strengths and growth areas, and thereby support the next steps on your leadership journey.

How will you benefit from this session?

You will find that your effectiveness as a leader depends on more than your current skills and good intentions to help others. It is also contingent on your personal growth and development. Through participating in this session, you will enlarge your leadership capacity by being able to:

Recognise and articulate your strengths and developmental needs in the four domains of performance, wisdom, visionary and citizen leadership
Initiate and participate in powerful conversations through knowing when and how to apply the principles and practices of dialogue
Distinguish between technical and adaptive change and understand how a dialogic approach can bring about sustainable change in your team/organisation

Participating in this session will equip you to make a positive shift in your current situation, so that you are better able to lead effectively from where you are.

What is your commitment?

Prior to the session you will be asked to do some reading, some preparatory thinking and to have a 30-minute telephone ‘entry’ call with one of the faculty. Following the session you will have the opportunity for another 30-minute telephone ‘value’ call to consider the value of the session to you and how you can realise this in your working situation.

Beyond Leading From Where You Are

Leading From Where You Are is the foundation course for a series of sessions which run every month of the year and span the range of dialogic leadership skills required to transform a whole system. You may choose to participate in a number of these sessions or join our Practitioner Circle to develop your overall dialogic skills and leadership capacity. Individual coaching and tailor-made programmes are also available on request.

Booking your accommodation

Participants are responsible for booking and paying for their own accommodation. Please see our hotels page for details of hotels we recommend. In addition, you will need to pay a rate of £120 to cover the cost of meals, refreshments and conference facilities.

Application Form

Full name:

Role title:

Full name of your organisation:

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About You

What sector do you work in?:

What significant challenges and opportunities are facing you at the moment?

Which organisational teams are you involved in, and in what capacity?

What are you seeking to gain by attending this session(s)?

Do you have any dietary or other needs that we should take into account?

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Registration

Your registration for this course will not be confirmed until you have been accepted for the session and full payment or a deposit of £50 has been received. All cancellations must be received at least 21 days before the start of the session for a full refund. After that date you may apply your fee against another course, but no refunds will be granted.

If you have queries about registration or invoicing, please contact:

Catherine Livingston
Tel: +44(0)1386 840448
Email: catherine.livingston@dialogue-associates.com

Data Protection

Your contact details may be made available only to employees of Dialogue Associates and to fellow session participants. If you do not wish your details to be kept on our computerised database, then please inform us in writing.