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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.
September 2011 - January 2012 Bangalore, India
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 on Common Purpose 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.
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.
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:
Navigator is currently run in Bangalore and courses also take place in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Hungary.
The upcoming course will be held in Bangalore from September 2011 to January 2012.
"Common Purpose can impact one's leadership at a personal level, it impacts and can impact at an organizational level and finally it can impact if necessary at a societal level. This one programme has transformed me hugely and had me introspecting hugely and I hope that a day will come when I really think I have contributed something more to my organization, to my city, if not my country. Common Purpose has transformed my core, it has transformed my soul and it has transformed every Monday morning for me."
Ms. Meera Harish, Head Corporate Communications, Titan Industries Ltd.
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"Common Purpose gave me confidence. Through a variety of structured exercises common purpose allowed me to examine my own passion and courage, personal objectives and business goals. With the support of other course members I was able to channel this insight into a series of decisions that ultimately led me to start my own business. The business, now in its second year, has 12 employees and is a leader in its field. Common Purpose is great for business. I have refined my presentation skills, grown new business and developed strategic partnerships that are having a very tangible benefit to my organisations bottom line."
"Common Purpose gave me confidence. Through a variety of structured exercises common purpose allowed me to examine my own passion and courage, personal objectives and business goals. With the support of other course members I was able to channel this insight into a series of decisions that ultimately led me to start my own business. The business, now in its second year, has 12 employees and is a leader in its field.
Common Purpose is great for business. I have refined my presentation skills, grown new business and developed strategic partnerships that are having a very tangible benefit to my organisations bottom line."
Nick Price, Commercial Director, Square i Media
"I personally found the learning experience very powerful, enlightening and motivating. I have got to know and become friends with other participants from senior positions in Government, Business, Professional and NGO sectors. Apart from the learning I have many valuable new friends. And through Common Purpose I am linked with over 25000 Common Purpose graduates throughout the world. Above all, I can happily say that my vision of the future, my understanding of Government, and my belief of what people with a common purpose can do, is most encouraging. The level of satisfaction that comes by doing this course defies explanation."
David Lobo- Director DEEJAY Group
