Connected Management.
Connected Management is our core manager development programme. It helps managers develop the skills, knowledge, tools and confidence to lead thriving, high-performing teams in a human-focused way.
The programme is anchored around 10 core modules. It can be delivered through 10, online 2.5h workshops, or adapted for client needs.
As well as delivering it in-house for clients, we deliver it at least once a year as an open programme.
The programme was full of useful information, tips and tools to take away and use. The information is always presented clearly with a real focus on how you can practically implement and use it in your own work situation. Highly recommended.
Invest in managers, improve performance.
Investing in your managers can fundamentally transform and improve your organization. Organisations with effective, human-focused managers materially outperform organizations with poorly skilled and under invested-in managers in many ways. Effective human focused managers improve:
- Employee engagement and wellbeing,
- Employee retention and attraction,
- Employee growth and skills development,
- Collaboration and inter-team working,
- Creativity, problem solving and innovation, and
- Overall individual, team and organizational performance.
Our Connected Management programme helps managers develop the skills, knowledge, tools and confidence to become human focused managers.
As well as delivering Connected Management as an open cohort programme, we can deliver it as a private, internal programme for your organization if you have 8 or more participants that you would like attend.
Our Philosophy.
We believe that the real world is a complex and messy place, especially where people are involved. We don’t believe that there are simple solutions to many of the challenges managers face, nor we we believe that there are single models that are universally applicable that will make you a great manager.
Instead, we believe that becoming a great manager involves improving your self-awareness and developing a rounded understanding of the psychological and social foundations on which great individual and team performances are built. Once you’ve done this, you can learn tools and management practices that you can apply to achieve your management objectives, while helping yourself and those around you be at your best.
Our management development approach is anchored in helping participants explore evidenced based, practically applicable theories and models through self reflection, conversation, peer based activities and in team experiments.
At our core, we believe that helping participants grow as people helps them grow as managers, so this is what we aim to do.
Programme content.
This programme combines workshops, independent learning and an opening and closing one-to-one coaching conversation with a programme facilitator.
A typical programme would include 10 workshops, which can be delivered on-line or in-person. Workshops are delivered on a regular cadence usually weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Participants also get access to videos for all of the topics covered and tools and resources to supplement their learning.
This programme constantly evolves and changes as we respond to our participants. Below is the current modular structure we head into the programme with.
Want to learn more about the content?
Below is a PDF you can access to learn more about the 2024 Connected Management programme.
Who is it for?
Our Connected Management programme is designed for organisations who really care about their people and want to create a great place to work where employees feel fulfilled and where performance is high.
The programme content and activities are best suited to new or middle level managers who have direct line management responsibility for one or two layers of employees, or who lead projects of work within organizations. The programme can also bring great benefit for aspiring or soon-to-be managers, provided they have several years of work experience and the ability to reflect on their time in the workplace.
The participants who get the most out of this programme bring a positive attitude to learning, a desire to grow and develop as managers and a willingness to try new ways of doing things. They also know that developing as a manager might require them to change and develop as a person along the way.
We deliver this programme to participants from the public, private and third sector, and from a range of business types and functions. Participants often benefit from learning from and with peer level managers in other organizations.
How much does it cost?
As a community interest company, we use a tiered pricing model. This means we charge larger organisations more, so that we can ensure affordable prices for smaller, not-for-profit or profit-for-purpose organisations.
2024 is Connected Management programme is £1100 per participant. We operate a sliding scale of pricing so smaller, not-for-profit organizations and self-funding individuals all pay 10-40% less
Where organizations would like to send 9 or more participants on our Connected Management programme, we recommend a private, in-house programme, which we can provide.
2024 Open Cohort Timelines.
As in other years, we will be running at least two cohorts of our open cohort in 2024. The first confirmed 2024 will kick off in April on Thursday mornings (UK Time). We expect to run a second cohort in April in the afternoons (UK time), meaning participants from a wide range of time zones can take part within their working hours.
Cohort 1 (UK AM)
Cohort 1 will have sessions at 09:00 AM, UK time. The schedule session for this cohort is as below:
S1 – 18 April: Programme Launch
S2 – 25 April: Managing & Leading Teams
S3 – 02 May: Emotional Intelligence
S4 – 09 May: Interpersonal Dynamics
S5 – 186May: Psychological Safety
S6 – 23 May: Cultures & Hybrid
S7 – 06 June: Designing & Delegating
S8 – 13 June: Communication for Managers
S9 – 20 June: Feedback & Success
S10 – 27 June: Coaching for Managers
Cohort 2 (UK PM)
Chort 2 TBC
S1 – April: Programme Launch
S2 – April: Managing & Leading Teams
S3 – May: Emotional Intelligence
S4 – May: Interpersonal Dynamics
S5 – May: Psychological Safety
S6 – May: Cultures & Hybrid
S7 – une: Designing & Delegating
S8 – June: Communication for Managers
S9 – June: Feedback & Success
S10 – une: Coaching for Managers
What People Say.
We get great feedback on this programmes. Here are some of the nice things people have said about it.
After completing their work with Jane, my team were more autonomous in their work and ambitious in their development. They also reported feeling more valued. Great result.
“It has been a wonderful experience and has inspired me to continue to create safe and fun work environments that are inclusive, supportive, and high functioning.”
“I am really excited about the positive response I’ve received from my team when implementing some of the great ideas I’ve been exposed to in this programme’s workshops.”
“James and Jane make such a great pairing and I have been really impressed with our team development programme. My team have all loved it and got a huge amount out of it.”