Common Purpose Navigator programme: 12th -16th November 2007

Broadening the horizons of emerging leaders

Common Purpose Navigator Northern Ireland is a unique leadership programme for emerging talent, high-potential individuals who are tipped as "people to watch" in their organisations or as future leaders in their communities. Participants are drawn from diverse sectors and backgrounds across Northern Ireland. They explore crucial issues such as levers of power, effecting change and managing risk.

The programme encourages them to challenge the views of the leaders they meet, in order to hone their own strategic thinking. Common Purpose Navigator programme widens the perspective of participants and provides a valuable new network that will make them both better informed and more effective.

We still have some places left specifically for organisations from the North West

About Common Purpose

Common Purpose aims to improve the way organisations and society work by expanding the vision, decision-making ability and influence of all kinds of leaders.
The community is both our subject and our venue. Our participants don't just sit in meeting rooms studying abstract management problems or wrestling with intellectual exercises. They go out into their own community and grapple with real life problems at first hand, visiting prisons, housing developments, businesses, hospitals and manufacturing plants in order to find inspiration outside their usual experience.

Together, they tackle topical issues (often with the people who carry responsibility for them), trade leadership experiences and strategies with other leaders from a variety of fields, and build wider networks All our programmes help leaders learn to Lead Beyond Authority, both as professionals and citizens. People who lead beyond authority can produce change beyond their direct circle of control. This is very different from other leadership programmes. All Common Purpose programmes and activities share the same long-term ambitions: better decision-making in all sectors, more effective solutions to common problems, more engaged and active citizens and, ultimately, stronger communities.

Since 1989, more than 100,000 people have been involved in Common Purpose and over 20,000 leaders from every area of the UK have completed one or more of our programmes. They, and their organisations, consistently report better strategic thinking, better decision-making, dramatically enhanced leadership competencies and a greater ability to apply them in new situations as a result of their experience of Common Purpose. We have 45 offices across the UK and a growing number outside the UK.

If you would like to learn more about this development opportunity for you or your staff contact Toni on 028 71861561 or toni.forrester@commonpurpose.org.uk

Alternatively visit our website: http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/home/programmes/navigator.aspx