Place-based Leadership

Building your personal resilience to lead teams through challenging times.

Placed Based Leadership will challenge your thinking so you can hone your skillset to inspire people and places to be better through effective and lasting change.

You’ll get a better understanding of how to be a better leader through turbulent times. It’ll help you to understand the importance of focusing on achieving better outcomes for people and communities across place. Encouraging you to widen your ambition and perspective in relation to delivery of change.

Duration: Two days
Sectors: Public
Career level: Senior Management level 
Points worth: 6 points*

*Our courses are all worth points. Your membership package comes with an allocation of points to use throughout the year to suit the needs of your organisation.

Many of the biggest challenges facing local public services cannot be solved by one team or service acting alone.

Whether you’re responding to LGR, improving community wellbeing, tackling digital exclusion or redesigning services, success often depends on bringing together people with different priorities, budgets and pressures.

That’s not easy.

Progress can stall when everyone agrees on the problem but struggles to agree on what happens next.

This course will help you develop the confidence and practical skills to bring people together, build momentum and make change happen.

You’ll learn how to influence, build trust and create a shared sense of purpose, even when you are not the person making the final decision.

This course will help you:

• Bring people together around a common goal.
• Build stronger relationships with partners and stakeholders.
• Handle competing priorities and difficult conversations.
• Create agreement when people see problems differently.
• Lead confidently through uncertainty and change.
• Use data, insight and digital tools to support better decisions.
• Keep the focus on outcomes for residents and communities.
• Learn alongside other senior leaders facing similar challenges.

“Working in the public sector is both challenging and rewarding. Meeting with those who work in other authorities and hearing their experiences give me personal reward as I can see where things could be done different/better.

The Socitm Place Based Leadership course; not only brought others together but provide structured discussion topics supported with theory.”

The course is limited to 12 members, to make sure you get the support you need. Book early to avoid missing out.

Your learning pathway

Placed Based Leadership (part of our Leadership Academy) goes well with Top Talent.