Motivating learning for modern managers
Our purposeful, social and performance-enhancing 12 week accelerator provides recently promoted people managers with practical and immediately applicable skills. Delivered remotely, through a series of live group sessions with offline assignments and supporting missions, the programme sets participants up for success among a supportive group of positive peers from similar organisations.
All Wednesdays 3.30—5.30pm UK time. 22nd September, 6th October, 20th October, 3rd November, 17th November, 1st December.
All Tuesdays 11am—1pm UK time. 5th October, 19th October, 2nd November, 16th November, 30th November, 14th December.
All Wednesdays 11am—1pm UK time. 26th January, 9th February, 23rd February, 9th March, 23rd March, 6th April
Six motivating modules
Actionable learning over 12 social weeks
The cohort comes together for a collective kick off, connecting around individual and group goals, making commitments for what's coming — and digging into the tension between leading and managing.
Knowing when to coach, and knowing when to mentor will be critical capabilities for the modern leader — situationally supporting team members, wherever they're working from.
We'll focus on the principles of leadership styles, identifying the different 'hats' we'll need to wear as managers and leaders using the real challenges from within our own teams to land learning.
When we properly and purposefully delegate in our teams we don't only lighten the load for ourselves, but we create powerful learning experiences for others. It's a key skill we'll crack together.
Successfully giving and receiving feedback, and being able to have difficult conversations in all directions will be critical in creating the conditions for teams to thrive.
In our group session, we'll bring it all together — reflecting on all the ground we've covered, prioritising next steps and the ways we'll be supporting each other going forward.
Programme principles
Expert led, accountable and action-oriented
Peer-led learning
Participants work and learn among a supportive cohort of peers, drawn from across growth-oriented organisations, focussed on individual and collective challenges and holding each other to account.
The action's in-between
The magic happens in between the sessions; with resources, exercises and 'mini-missions' taken away, tried and applied among teams. And in each new session we check in on what's changed.
Energising expertise
Cohorts are guided by a coach-facilitator throughout, adapting the core programme content to individual and collective needs, and welcoming in a cast of subject experts at key points — to enliven the thinking around their ideas and experiences.
The end is the beginning
Participants join our active alumni community of practice — invited alongside members of past FTL cohorts to check-in on the challenges and opportunities that come with people-management, through learning sets and ask-the-expert sessions.
“Unlike any development programme I’ve taken part in before. This felt more like a series of powerful conversations that fundamentally changed how I think about my work and my style as a manager.“
The programme on a page
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