Your Managers, learning alongside their peers from other Cambridge colleges. One room, twelve modules, real change.
Our seventh collegiate leadership programme launches on 8th October 2026.
Every cohort brings together managers from different Cambridge colleges to learn side by side, providing a unique opportunity for them to share their challenges, and realise they’re not the only ones wrestling with a tricky performance conversation or a change nobody wanted. It’s the mix of practical tools and shared experience that keeps delegates telling us this is the best development they’ve had.
The Programme dates for 2026-2027 are as follows:
07 October 2026
04 November 2026
02 December 2026
06 January 2027
03 February 2027
03 March 2027
31 March 2027
28 April 2027
26 May 2027
23 June 2027
21 July 2027
08 September 2027
What we bring…
We provide experienced trainers and facilitators to run the workshops approximately every four weeks. We’ll challenge your managers to look honestly at how they lead now, and give them tools they can use back at work the same afternoon.
Coaching built in…
From session two, delegates practise peer coaching on live issues, real problems, not case studies, so coaching becomes a habit rather than a technique they spoke about once.
What we ask of your managers…
Your managers are asked to:
- Show up and get stuck in, every session
- Take the learning back to the workplace and actually use it
- Commit to all twelve months; the group only works if everyone’s in it together
- Attend twelve half-day workshops
- Bring the drive to put it into practice, not just attend
Venue & Timings…
Sessions will start at 9am and finish at 12.30pm. Venue is to be confirmed
The final session runs an extra hour so we can celebrate everyone’s achievement and present certificates. We’ll invite you and each delegate’s line manager to join us for the presentation and a buffet lunch.
Accredited by the Institute of Leadership
This 12-month programme is accredited by the Institute of Leadership. Delegates become Student Members halfway through the programme, and Professional Members* – with the right to use the post-nominals MIoL – once they complete the full programme.
The Institute of Leadership membership enables your manager to access a variety of online resources and e-learning to help with their continued professional development.
Delegates set their own goals at the start and revisit them at months 6 and 12. Every workshop closes with action planning, so learning gets applied at work fast, and we check in on progress monthly.
Two tools that make it personal
Our programme includes two impact and motivation tools: the GC Index and Motivational Maps®.
The GC Index® helps each manager see where they naturally make the most impact. It’s not a personality test, but a map of where their energy and strengths are best spent, and how to lead from there with more confidence.
Motivational Maps® uncovers what actually drives each person, in a one-to-one session, so they understand what fuels their own motivation and how to build the same for their team.
Together, these give every delegate, and their employer, a much sharper picture of how their people work best.
Inside the programme
Coaching Skills For Managers: Builds the group identity, introduces Situational Leadership and one coaching model. We practice coaching as coach or coachee.
Effective Communication Skills for Managers: Unpicks the communication cycle, the filters that distort it, and the role body language and active listening play in communication.
Motivation for Team Success: Focuses on GC Index® and Motivational Maps® for greater understanding of what motivates different people. We build strategies to motivate others and bring appreciation into everyday management.
Performance Management: Maps the performance cycle, prepares for the conversations that matter, and practises giving feedback that lands.
Finding Compassion when Managing Conflict: Explores how perception fuels conflict, identifies default conflict styles, and shares a solution-focused way through.
Introduction to Flexible Negotiation Skills: Shares different negotiation styles for different situations, helps managers prepare properly, and get hands-on practice negotiating.
Leading on Wellbeing – An Introduction to Stress and Mental Health: Focuses on the connection between stress and mental health outcomes, identifies the signs of stress in yourself and others, and prepares for difficult conversations.
Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Defines equality, equity, diversity and inclusion, discusses managers’ responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010, and tackles unconscious bias head-on.
Delegation for Team Success: Identifies what good delegation looks like, addresses the barriers that get in the way of people delegating, and ensures managers match the task to the right person.
Managing Change Effectively: Seeks to explore the emotional response to change, the cost of getting it wrong, and how to communicate workplace change well.
Problem Solving and Decision Making: Takes a systematic approach to problems to get to the root cause, and generate genuine options for solving it.
Emotional Intelligence in Management: Identifies the core components of Emotional Intelligence, and builds a personal plan to develop it further.
Ready to put someone forward?
Email jacqui@yourpeoplepotential.co.uk or call 07880 776756 today to book your place.
This programme can also be delivered exclusively within your college; call 07880 776756 to discuss it further.
*If a manager misses an in-person workshop, we’ll arrange a paid online catch-up covering the key content. To gain Professional Membership of the Institute of Leadership and a certificate of completion, all 12 modules must be completed within 12 months.
