The leader who can direct is common; the leader who can facilitate — who draws out the capability of a team — is rare and increasingly required.
Facilitative Leadership is designed for managers leading teams through change, growth or transition. It moves beyond direction and control to the facilitative practices that enable a team to perform to a high standard — reading the situation accurately, preparing the ground, developing people, and creating the conditions in which collective performance emerges.
Rather than treating leadership as a body of theory, the programme requires you to apply facilitative practice to a real leadership challenge with your own team over three months — so that the capability to lead in a facilitative manner is built, tested and evidenced in the work itself.
Managers and leaders leading established teams through restructure, transition or new direction.
Managers who direct effectively but want to shift towards enabling and developing their people.
Senior staff accountable for the sustained performance of a team rather than their own output.
The areas you develop through your work-based project.
Planning and leading a work-based project with a team of colleagues, to develop your skills as a facilitative leader.
AI guidance as you work through your project and reflections.
Directed readings through WRIA’s online platform.
Pre-recorded videos and activities for learning and reflection.
Be in a role where you can undertake a real work-based project.
Have adequate English language proficiency.
A plan for your work-based project.
Monthly reflective reports on your progress.
A final implementation report bringing together your reflections and your development as a facilitative leader together.
Certificate of Completion — for those who complete the deliverables to the required standard.
Certificate of Participation — for those who take part but do not meet the standard.
A final report assessing your development as a facilitative leader, grounded in the evidence of a real leadership challenge.
A team challenge that has been materially advanced through facilitative rather than directive leadership.
Practised capability in preparing the ground, developing the team, and responding to the situation as it actually is.
Reflective Practice skills which you can carry forward in your career.
Download the detailed outline of structure, themes, the work-based project and measurement.
Facilitative Leadership runs entirely online over about three months, built around a real project in the participant’s own role. Talk to us to find our more.