Unlocking the agency of leaders by working on real life barriers to change in cross-sector teams.
At GoodLives GM we support leaders to develop their confidence, capabilities and connections by working on real life barriers to change in cross-sector teams. We work with leaders to chip away at our long term vision of making good lives for all possible, by creating a culture of prevention and reducing structural inequalities.
We support leaders at all levels of the system, defining leaders as people who guide and influence others, rather than about managing people or having a specific job title.
We run a leadership programme, The GoodLives GM System Shifting Leadership Collaborative, and bespoke Action Learning Sets, to support pioneering leaders to tackle real life barriers and wicked problems.
The GoodLives GM System Shifting Leadership Collaborative is a 9-month programme that connects leaders across sectors and places to develop their confidence, capabilities and networks. Leaders are supported to work on a ‘system-shifting experiment’ in a small cross-sector team, which we call a ‘trio’.
The programme supports leaders to develop a ‘system-shifting experiment’ to tackle a system barrier that gets in the way of their day to day work to reduce inequalities. They recruit ‘trio members’, to work with new colleagues across the system in a cross-sector team.
Leaders are provided with a range of tailored support, coaching, provocations, training, webinars and networking opportunities.
The Leadership Collaborative is rooted in public narrative theory and adaptive leadership theory, but is a deeply practical programme, embedding new ways of working into leaders’ everyday lives.
Action Learning is a specific methodology for supporting individual and collaborative problem-solving, reflective learning, sharing and leadership development in small groups of peers, known as Sets.
The benefits of the Action Learning approach are:
GoodLives GM runs an Action Learning Sets for leaders across Greater Manchester.
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