Common Purpose Navigator

A leadership course that brings together high potential, early career individuals from a range of backgrounds - on a local, regional, national and international basis.

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What is Common Purpose Navigator?

An leadership course for high potential, early career people from different backgrounds, sectors, countries and continents. Its local nature fulfills participants' wish to connect within their own community and its international reach stretches them far beyond it. It challenges participants to deal with complex problems and become leaders who can deliver results through building and leading collaboration when required.

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"Common Purpose is great for business. Through a variety of structured exercises Common Purpose allowed me to examine my own passion and courage, personal objectives and business goals. I have refined my presentation skills, grown new business and developed strategic partnerships that are having a very tangible beneft to my organisation's bottom line."

Nick Price, Commercial Director, Square i Media

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"As a result of becoming clear of my strengths and weaknesses and learning through the course to use my team more effectively I now delegate more and am putting processes in place to make my role more transparent and therefore transferable - which will help the sustainability of the business."

Linzi Moore, Business Manager, you:unlimited

Who is Common Purpose Navigator for?

Common Purpose Navigator is for people in the early stages of their career, who already have some management responsibility and are tipped to be the leaders of the future.

As with all our open courses, the participant group will be diverse in terms of background, experience, sector, outlook and approach. Participants share and challenge each other and discover that this diversity - far from being a weakness - provides a key strength of the course.

What are the benefits of Common Purpose Navigator?

Because professional development paths so often require people to narrow down and specialise early in their careers, the risk is that this both frustrates young talent and ill prepares them for leadership. Common Purpose Navigator counterbalances this effect.

Participants thrive in the environment that helps them to combine their personal values and their professional skills. They become more aware, balanced, professional and passionate leaders.

Because everything to do with Common Purpose  Navigator is diverse - its participants, experiences, contributors and case studies - the course pulls participants out of their comfort zone to face up to their own biases.

Participants are energised and inspired by their access to a range of leaders and unfamiliar organisational settings as they investigate real-life challenges. They develop the ability to cope with complexity, communicate with partners, draw out creative ideas from diverse groups and the energy to become leaders who can build and lead collaborations.

"I feel that the Navigator programme is an extremely valuable experience for people driving change in a complex healthcare environment.  I feel I am delivering higher quality work, engaging more important stakeholders and adding value to my organisation - I couldn't recommend it more highly."

Michael Ashton, Business Development Programme Manager, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust

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What is the format of Common Purpose Navigator?

The course spans four months. It is structured in a modular format to have local, regional and international elements which challenge the participants to consider leadership issues from very different perspectives, reflecting the real-life complexity of their own roles, interests and experiences.

All participants from across a region, or country, take part in three core days, where they explore the leadership themes of courage, power and resonance, and learn from each others' ideas and experiences.

"The Navigator programme, activities and participants really challenged me to think and develop in new ways - I am much clearer in how I can be a better leader. It has already made a difference to my work - I feel that I am more personally effective and able to make an early impact."

Toby Rumford, Ministry of Defence

In smaller, local groups participants choose to take part in several types of leadership modules:

  • Raids - in small groups participants venture into someone else's world to find out how change happens there.
  • Forums - participants will hear from leaders who will share their failures and successes, as well as learning to coach each other on overcoming their own individual challenges.
  • Quests - participants gain insights, and different perspectives, by travelling to different places, spending time in another town, city or country. Quests are an optional part of the course.
  • Net.Connect - allows participants to link up online - locally, nationally and internationally - to share the enormous range of knowledge within the whole group.

Read an example of a visit to the NHS

How to apply:

Complete the online application form at right or download the forms below and send both by post or fax to your local Common Purpose office.

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For more about the overall application process, please visit the application page.

What is the cost?

The fee for Navigator is £3,500 + VAT.

Contact us to learn more about financial assistance or to buy multiple places.

If your organisation has between 2 and 249 staff, you may be eligible for grants for leadership training.

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''The course has been beneficial to me in my new executive role in Enfield Community Services.I feel better prepared to face the difficult and uncomfortable situations that I frequently find myself in. For example:- representing ECS at regional / national events, chairing, rather than just presenting, at hearings and seminars etc plus meeting and often negotiating with unfamiliar people outside of my organisation or usual sphere of influence. I am more confident and the course has broadened my horizons, having always worked in the NHS.''

Kay Lewis, Clinical Quality Lead & Service Manager Long Term Conditions, Enfield Community Services

"I think the most valued element of the course was the series of peer-to-peer learning sessions, where I was introduced to and practiced new skills. I now use one such skill, the method of open questioning, to challenge our procedures and to work more efficiently with colleagues on the planning and delivery of projects. I also use the Common Purpose guidance around how to operate in these peer-to-peer learning groups to guide my conduct in meetings, which leads to success! Shoreditch Trust is currently going through a period of change and I can attribute some of the reasons for my promotion to the skills I acquired and now use from Common Purpose. I am sure I would not have coped as well through this change if I hadn't taken the time out of work to develop and explore these leadership skills and ideas."

Hilary Clayton, Community and Enterprise Projects Manager, Shoreditch Trust

"Common Purpose has challenged me to see out of the box, beyond my comfort zone and towards a more ambitious future as a progressive and confident leader. As a result of the course, I have taken on the task of leading the communication strategy for my department. This is not my expertise and I certainly will be out of my depth initially but I am determined to work with all the courage I can muster to roll out a fantastic communication strategy for our clients. As a result of our new funky posters, leaflets and signage, more young people have accessed our services and have received help around health, education and staying safe."

Shaffique Prabatani, Service Manager - Locality Young Peoples Services (South), City of Westminster

"I went into the International Navigator Course not knowing exactly what to expect, and four months later, came out extremely well informed about some of the most important leadership issues I had never before stopped to reflect on; with a wealth of contacts in various different fields I would have never otherwise made; having met inspirational guest speakers and colleagues while attending sessions in a lot of exciting venues around London…I would recommend this course to anyone interested in stepping out of their comfort zones, challenging themselves, testing their boundaries and in the end, enriching their careers and leadership skills in a unique, fun way."

Dheeraj Akolkar, Writer-Director-Producer, Vardo Films

"As a result of having graduated from Common Purpose Navigator I more effectively listen to and communicate with people from diverse backgrounds, improving the way I work inside and outside my organisation. This has increased my personal effectiveness and made me a better leader."

Russell Lyseight, Programme Planning and Governance Manager, Barclays