lead / dispersed leadership teams in a hybrid public sector
TLDR
For leadership teams spread across sites and screens. Helps you lead as one team - consistent, connected and confident, wherever you are.
This programme is designed for leadership teams in public sector organisations where staff are based in different locations and rarely all in the same place. It supports leaders in being present and connected with their teams in a hybrid working environment, even when they aren’t physically in the same location. The programme explores how leadership can be delivered through systems, culture and communication to ensure everyone feels part of one organisation with a shared purpose.
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To help your leadership team develop a shared approach to leading dispersed and hybrid teams, with clarity, consistency and confidence.
To practise the communication, behaviours and leadership habits that build alignment, trust and performance across different locations.
To strengthen the way your leadership team works together: supporting each other, holding each other to account and setting the tone for the wider organisation.
To develop practical ways to lead culture, change and day-to-day management when your teams are rarely in the same place.
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A leadership team that is more joined up, more consistent and more confident in how it leads across locations.
Clearer expectations and shared standards for how leadership is delivered across the organisation.
Stronger relationships and mutual support within the leadership team, helping leaders feel less isolated and more aligned.
Practical tools and approaches that can be applied immediately to improve communication, performance and culture in a hybrid environment.
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09:30 – Welcome and introductions
09:45 – Expectations
10:00 – What’s changed, what hasn’t
Exploring how hybrid working has changed the way leadership works
What’s harder now? What’s better? What’s still essential?
Identifying the specific challenges your team faces
10:30 – What kind of leadership team are we?
Reflecting on how your team currently works together
What do people across the organisation see and feel from your leadership?
What do you want to be known for?
11:00 – Break
11:15 – Communicating across distance
How to keep people informed, connected and aligned when you’re not in the same place
Setting expectations for communication across your leadership team
Agreeing what good communication looks like: upwards, downwards and sideways
11:45 – Delivering performance and accountability
How to manage performance when visibility is low and contact is limited
Making sure standards are consistent across teams and locations
Holding each other to account as a leadership team
12:30 – Lunch
13:15 – Delegation, trust and empowerment
How to delegate effectively when you’re not physically present
Building trust in people you don’t see every day
Supporting each other to let go and lead strategically
14:00 – Leading culture, ethos and change
How to lead values, behaviours and change across dispersed teams
Making sure your leadership team is aligned and consistent
Planning how to lead the next phase of change together
Agreeing how to deliver a consistent and connected onboarding experience for new staff, wherever they are based
14:45 – Break
15:00 – Coaching, feedback and support
How to give and receive feedback as peers
Creating a culture of support and challenge within your leadership team
Building habits of reflection and continuous improvement
15:45 – Commitments
Agreeing shared leadership standards and behaviours
Identifying what you’ll do differently as a team from tomorrow
Planning how to keep this work alive
16:30 – Close
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Discovery
Before the workshop, we gather insight into your team’s goals, challenges and ways of working. This may include short conversations with key stakeholders, a questionnaire, or if useful a GC Index team profile which is a data-led tool that helps us understand how your team creates impact. (The GC Index is OPTIONAL and can be added if you’d like a deeper diagnostic.)
Workshop
A full-day session, delivered face to face or virtually, focused on your team’s live challenges and objectives. For smaller teams or focused topics, the workshop can sometimes be run as a half-day.
One-to-one coaching (OPTIONAL)
Following the workshop, individual coaching can be offered to selected team members to reflect on their role, strengthen their influence and practice applying the learning in practice on a one-to-one basis.
Follow-up session (OPTIONAL)
Around two months later, we can run a short virtual follow-up session to review progress, share learning and refresh commitments.
This modular approach keeps costs transparent and flexible - you can include all elements for a complete development journey or select just the parts that best fit your team’s needs and budget.
