Organisational Leadership

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We offer a range of workshop options to help you think through setting up governance for your organisation.

Teamwork basics: Interactive values, mission, and strategic plan workshop

  • 3-10 people, two days
    • Virtual: £6,000 GBP (nonprofit/university, high income area).
    • In-person: £7,500 + travel and lodging expenses for two trainers and dedicated venue.
  • Content:
    • Identify organisational values and strengths.
    • Identify leadership and core team roles and responsibilities.
    • Teamwork: gaps, risks, and complementarity analysis.
  • Outputs:
    • Organisational vision and 1- and 3-year roadmap.
    • Organisation roles, responsibilities definitions and relationship chart.

Teamwork by design retreat: Interactive values, mission, practices and strategic plan workshop

  • 3-10 people, five days.
    • Virtual: £12,000 GBP (nonprofit/university, high income area).
    • In-person: £15,000 + travel and lodging expenses for two trainers and dedicated venue.
  • Content:
    • Identify organisational values and strengths.
    • Identify leadership and core team roles and responsibilities.
    • Teamwork: practices, communication tools, accountability, feedback, decision making.
  • Outputs:
    • Organisational vision and 1- and 3- year roadmap.
    • Organisation roles, responsibilities definitions and relationship chart.
    • Collaboration handbook outlining team practices and communication tools.

What to expect when you’re setting up a new value-driven organisation

  • Reflection worksheet (have you thought about… x).
  • Guided two-hour workshop with 8 follow-up 1:1 coaching sessions.

What is covered:

  • Real-world practicalities:
    • Preparing to receive money.
    • Creating job ads and hiring equitably.
    • Pensions, benefits, vacation days and leave policies.
    • Identifying necessary support, such as hiring accounting and legal professionals.

What is not covered:

Country-specific nuances, e.g. setting up a stichting, a verein, or a 501(c)(3). We may be able to offer some advice for orgs that intend to start up in the UK.

Costs: £3000

Research Software Engineer (RSE) Leadership Training Course

Course description

This leadership course is possibly the first in the world to provide an intersectional framework that underpins a leadership course for those working as RSEs and those in the tech industry. It is also unique in that we meet with you first to understand what challenges you are facing and to to create an individual development plan just for you.

It focuses on centering the individual and prioritising based on the “degree of difficulty” across recruitment, retention, as well as project, people, and relationship management.

This course lays bare the core, practical concepts that you need to know to be an outstanding leader for a team of 1+ staff in an organisation.

Topics

The course covers:

  • Using a Diversity and Inclusion framework to unearth talent.
  • Using Continuous Improvement skills to identify talent.
  • Setup and maintain pipelines to attract talent.
  • Project Management.
  • People managing high-performance teams.
  • How to deal with difficult change management situations and build relationships.

Iterations of the course