Overview

Learn how to tap into the power of collective knowledge and thinking, and how to create a business environment which enables this in our workshop specifically for SME leaders.

Session Objectives

During this session you will learn :

• Why Leadership is not about 'style'

• About the challenges SME leaders need to meet and the ways they can do it

• Some ways to create open space in your business to build the capacity of the business to meet the challenges

At the end of it you will have some practical strategies to use back at work.

This workshop is for anyone in a leadership or management role in an SME.

Series of workshops

This is the first workshop in a series of two. This session will focus on system and strategies. Part 2, on Wednesday 2nd March will focus on employee engagement. Please ensure you are signed up to both workshops.

Exclusively for #WECAN participants

Workshops are exclusively for those eligible and participating in the #WECAN project – you must have completed an eligibility check and diagnostic with us before onboarding and attending this event. Please note, if you are not a registered participant you may be asked to leave the session.

If you aren’t already part of the #WECAN project and would like to found out more please complete a short enquiry form at www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/wecan

Speaker

The session will be led by #WECAN Delivery Lead David Taylor.

For over twenty years David has been a professional coach with a portfolio of clients including owners and Managing Directors of SME’s as well as leaders working in larger organisations in the UK and beyond. He has a wide range of experience in leadership and organisational change with both large and small businesses in a variety of sectors. He is a skilled facilitator with experience as a line manager and as a learning development professional across public, private and third sectors. He is a Fellow of the RSA.

David has led events focused on creativity, learning, strategy & change, human resources and leadership development in the UK, China, Africa, the Emirates and in Eastern Europe. He also facilitates Open Space, World Cafe and Action Learning events as well as running his ‘Four Seasons’ programme that uses story and wild land to support people to find their inner compass. He is co-author of Alchemy in a Shoebox and has also written an illustrated book of his own poems Occupying My Ground.

The session will be hosted using MS Teams - a meeting link will be sent to you in advance.

About #WECAN

#WECAN is a three year £1.7 million project part funded by the European Social Fund. Led by Leeds Beckett University and working with a network of partners including Edge Hill University and Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber, the project aims to support the next generation of women leaders in the Leeds City Region by building their leadership skills, capabilities and opportunities.

European Social Fund

The project has a budget of £1.7m over three years, partly funded by partners and partly from the European Social Fund as part of the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme in England. The Department for Work and Pensions (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for the England European Social Fund programme. Established by the European Union, the European Social Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support skills development, employment and job creation, social inclusion and local community regenerations.

For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding.

Contact us :

Website - www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/wecan

Email - wecan@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Twitter - @wecanlcr

LinkedIn - #WECAN (Women Empowered through Coaching and Networking)