Future Leaders Programme (February - June 2026)
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25 February 2026 9:30am to 17 June 2026 5:00pm
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Online
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Training Courses
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- Leadership
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Current
The Future Leaders Programme is designed to help take your career to the next level by exploring and addressing fundamental leadership questions, develop your skills to advance your career, and cultivate a supportive network of peers to support you throughout your journey.
Course Fees
Who is this programme aimed at?
This programme has been designed to meet the needs of experienced fundraisers who are in any of the following positions:
- Have recently taken on a role with both line management and strategic responsibility.
- Are keen to progress to a genuine management and leadership role.
- Want to explore whether a leadership position (e.g. Head of or Director of Fundraising) is one they want to pursue.
Session Content
- Appreciate emotional intelligence's importance
- Learn the elements that make up emotional intelligence
- Reflect on your own emotional intelligence
- Obtain ideas for development
- Appreciate the pros and cons of different leadership styles
- Ascertain your own preferred style(s)
- Appreciate the impact of increasing your leadership repertoire
- Consider the requirements and your aptitude for politics in the workplace
- Understand the concept of coaching
- Familiarise yourself with the GROW coaching model
- Develop supporting coaching skills
- Experience being coached and practise coaching others
- Explore the ways one can influence
- Obtain a framework for negotiation
- Practice your influencing and negotiation skills
- Consider different approaches to strategy
- Obtain useful strategic frameworks
- Reflect on the requirements for successful recruitment, induction, retention and departures
Session dates and times
| Session 1 | 25 February 2026 | 9:30 - 17:00 |
| Session 2 | 25 March 2026 | 9:30 - 17:00 |
| Session 3 | 22 April 2026 | 9:30 - 17:00 |
| Session 4 | 20 May 2026 | 9:30 - 17:00 |
| Session 5 | 17 June 2026 | 9:30 - 17:00 |
What to expect from the programme
This programme offers the unique opportunity for you to raise and answer fundamental leadership questions, develop the skills you need to take your career to the next level and build a network of peers to support you along the way.
Throughout the programme participants will be asked to consider their development objectives and reflect on progress.
The sessions will involve hearing from guest speakers, such as current Directors of Fundraising from both large and small organisations, who will share insights on the role. Other guest speakers are likely to include former Directors of Fundraising, who have progressed to CEOs, and recruitment consultants who specialise in hiring Directors of Fundraising.
Hear from Coach, Mark Hughes, about what to expect from this programme.
Technology requirements
The course is being delivered via the online platform zoom. To enable you to interact with your tutor and your class you will need to have access to a microphone (or access to a landline phone) and ideally have a working video link via a camera. To test compatibility with your system, you can join a test meeting via this link.
Payment & terms
If you require an invoice please ensure you book your place a minimum of two weeks before the start date of the programme
Please note: Places are limited to ensure the best possible experience for participants
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