Common Purpose International 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
International Navigator?

An international 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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Who is Common Purpose International Navigator for?

Common Purpose International 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 on Common Purpose International Navigator 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 International 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 International 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 International 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.

 

What is the format of Common Purpose International 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.

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.

Where is Common Purpose
International Navigator held?

Common Purpose International Navigator is currently run throughout the UK - including London, Scotland, Wales, the North and South West of England, East and West Midlands and Northern Ireland.

Outside the UK, courses take place in South Africa and Hungary and India.

Upcoming courses

International Navigator Northern Ireland 2010
14th October 2010 — 16th December 2010
London Common Purpose International Navigator Winter 2010
2nd November 2010 — 2nd March 2011
Scotland International Navigator 2011
8th March 2011 — 16th June 2011
International Navigator North 2011
29th March 2011 — 14th July 2011
Wales International Navigator 2011
5th April 2011 — 7th July 2011
London Common Purpose International Navigator Spring 2011
6th April 2011 — 29th July 2011

 

What is the cost to attend
International Navigator?

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

Financial Assistance

Applicants who cannot pay the full fee should not be deterred from applying. There are a number of almost full (every participant must make some contribution) and part bursary places provided on every Common Purpose course for participants who are genuinely unable - as opposed to unwilling - to meet the full fee.

If you would like to apply for a bursary, please fill in the section of the form for bursary candidates. If you need to discuss this further, please contact your local Common Purpose office.

Common Purpose Plus
Everyone who has completed a Common Purpose course will be offered a 20% reduction on the fee of any future courses they attend. Please notify us in your course application if you wish to apply for this reduction.

How can I apply to attend
International Navigator?

Complete the online application form at right and choose the date and location you want.

You can also download the Course Application Form and Equal Opportunities Form and send both by post or fax to your local Common Purpose office.

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

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