Leading Teams in a Digital Age

This course will be beneficial to many different people. We are expecting to hear from current and aspiring team leaders from a diverse range of professions and areas:

• Project and Product Managers
• QA / Software Testers
• Developers, Coders and Engineers
• Business Analysts
• Product Owners

But if you are not on the list, don’t let that stop you - these are the skills everyone needs - peer to peer learning and knowledge sharing is a big part of what we do. We all use digital tools to lead and manage our teams and projects.

You and your team should experience immediate benefit from this course; increased capacity and skills across leadership, planning and delivery:

• Draft a team charter
• Increase collaboration and team wellbeing
• Create a mentoring culture

This course runs over 12 weeks with one or two sessions a week. There is additional self led learning in addition to the main group sessions.

You will cover:

Throughout the course we’ll be using and exploring tools, systems and methods for communication, leadership and management such as Trello, Jamboard and Monday. We’ll be focussing on developing skills around:

• Establishing a team charter
• Leadership styles and models
• Managing highly effective teams
• Time and resource management
• Measuring success with OKRs and KPIs
• Understanding cognitive bias
• Encouraging diversity, equality and inclusion

This course generally runs over 12 weeks in half day sessions. These are delivered remotely with options to attend outside of your working hours, making it easier to fit around your existing commitments.

These sessions are supplemented with additional guided but self led learning, shorter ‘lunch-and-learn’ sessions on key skills and knowledge as well as ad hoc 1-1 support and coaching.