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Structured programmes taught by named experts, each with CPD hours and templates you can put to work the next working day.
Leadership and strategy
Setting direction and leading with authority and integrity.
Leadership and strategy
Authentic Leadership
Explore what authentic leadership means in practice and use structured self-checks, a decision scenario and two real case studies to assess, and grow, just how authentic your own leadership is. Across seven modules you will work through the five I's, self-awareness, your own life story, staying true to yourself under pressure, and twelve practices for continuing to develop.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Leadership and strategy
Leading Through Change
A practical course for leaders navigating major organisational change, restructures, mergers, new leadership, or curriculum reform, drawing on Kolb, the Stockdale Paradox, Kotter and Bridges, plus insights from over fifty practising leaders.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Leadership and strategy
New Beginnings in Leadership
A practical course for anyone taking on a leadership role for the first time, newly promoted, new to an organisation, or taking on different responsibilities. Across six modules you will assess your own readiness, build a compelling vision, plan a way forward, and pick up research-based advice on being, doing and considering as a new leader.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Leadership and strategy
Strategic Leadership
Build the strategic awareness, planning discipline and decision-making skills of an effective strategic leader. Explore practical tools for problem solving, good decision-making and strategic analysis, and learn how to apply them to real challenges in your own team or organisation.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Leadership and strategy
Sustained Success
A practical course on sustaining success as a leader, drawing on Promoting Excellence's own diagnostic tools and its companion book on growing talent in education. You will map what sustained success actually requires, assess your own practice honestly, and build the skills to grow the people around you.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Leading and developing people
Getting the best from the people you lead and growing them on.
Leading and developing people
Coaching and Mentoring
Develop practical coaching and mentoring skills: understand the difference between the two, discover your own default style, and practise the listening, questioning and feedback skills that help colleagues find their own solutions.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Leading and developing people
Delegation and Empowerment
A practical course on delegation and empowerment for anyone leading or managing others. You will explore what good delegation looks like, assess your own habits honestly, and build the confidence and skills to develop the people around you.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Leading and developing people
Excellent Appraisals
A practical course on running the full staff appraisal cycle: preparing well, holding coaching-style conversations, setting SMART objectives, and giving and receiving feedback fairly. Includes a self-check on your coaching habits and a scenario on handling a defensive response to feedback.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Leading and developing people
Knowing and Motivating Your Staff
Understand what really motivates people at work, build your own self-awareness as a leader, and develop practical, evidence-informed strategies to motivate your staff and respond well when motivation dips.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Communication and influence
Handling the hard conversations and carrying people with you.
Communication and influence
Managing Difficult Conversations: Master Level (Part Two)
The Master Level follow-on to Managing Difficult Conversations (Part One): managing conversations with your own manager, exercising judgement in real workplace scenarios, and reading the emotional radar for anger, tears and hard boundaries. Completing this course, alongside Part One, certifies you as a Promoting Excellence Master Practitioner.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Communication and influence
Managing Difficult Conversations: Part One
A practical introduction to handling difficult conversations at work: what makes them hard, why we avoid them, how to manage conflict well, and how to hold a conversation that actually resolves something. Built around real workplace scenarios, ranking exercises, a self-assessment and case studies. Completing this course certifies you at Promoting Excellence Introductory Level, and leads into the Master Level Part Two course.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Communication and influence
The Art of Influence
A practical course on the art of influence: what it really means, why it matters for leadership, and nine strategies for building genuine buy-in without relying on formal authority. Includes a self-assessment of your own influencing strengths, two branching scenarios, and a personal commitment to keep developing after the course ends.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Personal effectiveness
Knowing yourself, organising your time and working with confidence.
Personal effectiveness
Self-awareness and Understanding
Build a grounded understanding of your own self-awareness and emotional intelligence, using the Johari Window, Goleman's four domains of EI and a leadership behaviour diagnostic to see yourself more clearly. Across six modules you will turn self-knowledge into concrete next steps, including a decision scenario on staying in control under pressure.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Personal effectiveness
Self-Confidence and Assertiveness
Build genuine self-confidence and learn to be assertive without tipping into aggression or passivity. Across seven modules you will explore what confidence and assertiveness really mean, practise handling difficult people and situations through honest self-checks along the way, and finish with a personal commitment to keep building on it.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Personal effectiveness
Time Management and Prioritisation
Learn to assess honestly how you currently manage your time, understand the difference between urgent and important, and build practical techniques and habits for prioritising your workload well.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Wellbeing
Protecting your own health and that of the people around you.
Wellbeing
Emotional Health and Wellbeing
Explore what wellbeing means at work, how to recognise and build a genuinely healthy workplace, and the leadership behaviours and personal habits that sustain wellbeing over time. Includes practical self-assessments, a real-world scenario on setting boundaries, and a course-closing commitment to your own wellbeing.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Teaching and learning
Excelling in the classroom and leading a subject well.
Teaching and learning
Inclusive and Adaptive Teaching and Learning
A practical course for all staff in schools and colleges on adaptive teaching: what it means, how it differs from differentiation, how to build a holistic picture of your learners, and how to adapt moment by moment without lowering challenge. Includes a branching classroom scenario and the course's full set of self-audits, from your own teaching qualities to a twenty-five point best-practice check.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Teaching and learning
Subject and Curriculum Leadership
A practical course for subject and curriculum leaders covering why the role matters, the foundations of excellent practice, getting the curriculum right, building a winning team, and achieving and sustaining excellence over time. Includes honest self-assessments against real leadership behaviours and a closing personal commitment for the year ahead.
Taught by Jackie Christie