Direction course
Keep the purpose clear.
Give people direction.
For senior leaders responsible for strategy, oversight and delivery across multiple teams. Work through complexity while protecting the conditions people need to perform well.
The course in practice
Teaching, practice and reflection.
Structured teaching is combined with discussion, workshops, practical scenarios, peer feedback and guided reflection. Examples are connected to the responsibilities participants hold in their own organisation.
Available as a standard course or adapted for an organisation. The proposal confirms the programme length, participants, location, delivery arrangements and price before booking. Specialist experiential activities are optional and agreed separately.
Who it is for
Choose by responsibility.
Directors, departmental or divisional heads, senior programme leads, strategic planners, policy leads and senior operational leaders with responsibilities across teams or services.
Senior leadership involves more than keeping today’s work moving. Direction creates space to connect immediate pressures with longer-term purpose, align resources and maintain oversight as conditions change.
The learning
What participants work on.
- Clear aims and objectives across a department, programme or organisation
- Strategic use of the Foresight Framework for planning and oversight
- Decisions with incomplete information and competing demands
- Accountability that recognises human and organisational limits
- External scrutiny, internal conflict and structural constraints
- Consistent direction and communication through change or disruption
Learning through practice.
Participants work with examples adapted to their responsibilities. Discussion and planning exercises examine how decisions affect different teams, what deserves strategic attention and how to maintain a clear direction when workstreams compete.
Teaching, case discussion and exercises connect the Framework and Behavioural System with strategic decisions. The programme is shaped around the organisation’s circumstances and the participants’ responsibilities.
Standards and care
belong together.
The Foresight Management Framework supports decisions about what needs to happen. The Behavioural System develops how people manage, follow, lead and command. Command is exercised by consent, with responsibility for decisions and for the people involved.
Feedback and debriefs focus on learning, behaviour and the work. Questions and constructive challenge are part of the process.
Plan the right programme.
Individual coaching or organisational consultancy can help translate the learning into an ongoing approach to leadership and oversight.
We agree the content, delivery arrangements and any specialist experiential activities after discussing your aims. Tell us about the participants, their responsibilities and any access or participation requirements.
How long is the course?
We agree the programme length and delivery arrangements around your objectives and the participants. Contact us for a tailored proposal and quotation.
Discuss the Direction course.
Tell us who will be taking part and what you want them to develop. We will help you decide how the programme should work.