Emerging Leaders Programme
The Emerging Leaders programme is designed to help transport your leadership skills to the next level in your personal leadership journey. Our immersive programme develops leaders who currently perform a managerial or leadership role and are keen to add new leadership skills, develop greater self awareness and motivate their teams for high performance.
Gain a firm understanding of who you are as a leader. Adapt your leadership resilience to navigate challenges. Learn to lead individuals, drive high potential teams. Lead with impact and influence within the organisation.
Key Takeaways and Benefits
Join our Emerging Leaders programme and deepen your awareness of your behaviour and how it impacts on others. Lead managers and teams for high performance. Work effectively with others to support cross functional thinking and buy-in. Understand how to influence others. Provide an opportunity for you to reflect on the impact you have – and can have - as a leader.
Our condensed interactive online Emerging Leaders programme is designed to challenge, develop and empower emerging leaders who lead other managers or senior professional staff. Particular challenges they will be likely to experience at this level of leadership include cross functional working; influencing senior manager buy-in; and identifying and developing managers for higher performance. Delivered over a series of modules the programme has three component parts: 1) Who I am as a leader? 2) Leading individuals and high potential teams 3) Leading within the organisation
Participant Profile
Elevate and equip your leadership capabilities for the next level.
For middle managers, high potential and team leaders.
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Orientation and Launch |
This session brings participants together for the first time and provides an over view of the Programme as well as logistics and deadlines for various elements of the programme. |
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Who am I as a leader: Insights Discovery |
This module focuses on Insights Discovery profile feedback to explore the topic ‘who I am as a leader’. |
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Who am I as a leader: What is leadership? |
This module explores leadership and how it differs from management; and introduces the DAC definition of leadership, giving participants an opportunity to apply it to their own contexts. |
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Who am I as a leader: Emotional Resilience – Balancing Well-being and Leadership |
This module looks at the concept and practice of Emotional Intelligence as part of participants continued exploration of the topic ‘who I am as a leader’. |
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Leading Individuals and High Potential Teams: Adopting a Coaching Approach |
This module looks at the mind-set and skill-set of coaching and how these can be deployed by leaders to bring out the best in those they work with. |
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Leading Individuals and High Potential Teams: Building Alignment and Agreement |
This module focuses on how to guide conversations and build alignment and agreement as you go. |
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Leading Individuals and High Potential Teams: Developing Your Team |
This module focuses on the characteristics of high performing teams and looks at the role of leadership in building these. |
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Leading Within the Organisation: Effective Communication in Challenging Times |
This module focuses on strategies and tools for influencing others in your organisation, especially in challenging times. |
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Leading Within the Organisation: Change and Transition in Challenging Times |
This module considers the difference between change and transition and focuses on how leaders can support themselves and others in challenging times. |
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Final Module: Learning Lab - Wrap-up |
This module provides an opportunity for participants to support each other on their leadership journey and celebrate with others. |
Our Emerging Leaders course is delivered in a blended format with 3.5 days in person at our Riddel Hall campus and 1.5 days interactively from our virtual online classroom.
Your learning experience is supported with access to our online learning management platform Canvas
JANUARY 2025 DATES |
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MODULE |
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| 30/01/2025 | 10:30-12:00 | Orientation | Online |
| 06/02/2025 | 09:30-16:30 | Welcome/Who am I as a leader: Insights Discovery | On Campus |
| 13/02/2025 | 09:30-13:00 | Who am I as a leader: Emotional Resilience – Balancing Well-being and Leadership | Online |
| 27/02/2025 | 09:30-16:30 | Leading Individuals and High Potential Teams: Adopting a Coaching Approach | On Campus |
| 06/03/2025 | 09:30-13:00 | Leading Individuals and High Potential Teams: Developing Your Team | Online |
| 13/03/2025 | 09:30-13:00 | Leading Within the Organisation: Effective Communication in Challenging Times | Online |
| 20/03/2025 | 09:30-16:30 | Leading Within the Organisation: Change and Transition in Challenging Times | On Campus |
| 27/03/2025 | 09:30-13:30 | Learning Lab - Putting it into action | On Campus |
What are past participants saying about this programme?
"The Emerging Leaders programme is one of the best professional development experiences I’ve ever had. It was invaluable to have the chance to step away from our desks and think about the bigger picture of leadership and career development. The trainers are very knowledgeable on their subject matter, very approachable and took you on a journey where you confront your feelings, have to reveal yourself and trust in each other. The Programme has a good balance practical and learning with an emphasis on self-awareness and self-improvement, and gave me confidence in the knowledge that leadership has many faces and that leadership never ends" Tommy Scott - Head of Engineering, Survitec
“Completing the Emerging Leaders programme has enabled me to become a more pragmatic and perceptive leader. The programme structure provides a very constructive platform to develop the skills and knowledge to become an effective leader. For myself, before the programme, I was leading a team of engineers and unsure was I maximising our potential. Now however, I am confident in my ability to provide leadership which will not only be beneficial and productive to myself, but also my team and to the company.” Daniel Nolan - Flight Simulator Engineering Manager, Ryanair
"The Emerging Leaders programme was a great course for my needs for moving into a Senior role within the business. The modules were tailored to Leadership development, with each one proving more beneficial than the last. I am now confident in my ability to lead a team through a post-pandemic world. Thanks to everyone involved and my classmates for making this such an enjoyable and educational experience that I know will benefit myself, the company and my team." Rachel Lynch - Supply Chain Manager, CRANE ChemPharma & Energy Flow Solutions
“I would highly recommend the Emerging Leaders programme to anyone in a leadership role. The course is really well structured; each module combines theory with practice, providing training in a number of strategies and tools. The content of the programme was very relevant to my role as a director, and I was able to put the tools into practice immediately with great success. I learned a great deal about my own leadership style and the traits of others, thus empowering me to engage better. I gained experience in tools to develop alignment, negotiation and dialog. The session on coaching was particularly helpful to me and the opportunity to practice really helped embed the techniques discussed. Very relevant to today's climate were the modules on virtual teams and leading through change. The number of attendees was just right to allow us to really get to know and learn from each other and we had an opportunity to hear from some great guest speakers in addition to the fantastic Dr Louise O'Meara!” Bronagh Fletcher - Director, Oracle
Our Emerging Leaders Programme is delivered by our experienced programme director Dr. Louise O’Meara. Louise brings 25 years experience in supporting leaders and managers to focus and optimize the creativity, energy and spirit of others to achieve success at the ‘double bottom line’, achieving outstanding results. Louise is a qualified coach with a highly engaging facilitation style delivery. Louise focuses on practical, outcomes focused interactions designed to help people build alignment and take concerted action when back in the workplace.
International accomplished team coach, author and keynote speaker Peter Ivanov joins us for the Developing Your Team module on Day 6 and the Effective Communication in Challenging Times module on day 7. Peter has 20 years experience as a senior manager, motivating and leading award winning virtual teams. Peter has managed large projects and departments transforming the organization and IT landscapes in various diverse management roles. Peter enjoys a global leadership following and his book ‘Virtual Power Teams’ has gained international acclaim and best seller status. Returning to sport late in life Peter is an award winning athlete and a champion javelin and discus thrower for his native Bulgaria. Peter is passionate about helping managers and leaders harness the power in virtual teams and bring out the best in their people.
Chris is Associate Professor of Management Learning at Henley Business School and teaches on the Queen’s University MBA. Chris leads the ‘Emotional Resilience – Balancing Well-being and Leadership’ module on this programme. A dynamic and creative tutor, author, systemic constellations facilitator and coach Chris has over 25 years of international experience in management education and training. He runs corporate workshops and seminars related to management development and coaching in many parts of the world. Chris is an accomplished author of two business books, with a third planned for late 2021.
We have a range of package options to support your Senior Executive experience with executive coaching and mentoring. Please contact us directly to discuss your requirements. Please email: Sue.Burns@qub.ac.uk
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