Beacon

Unleashing the boundless talents of high-potential leaders

Duration

42 contact hours

Location

Across the UK, Ireland, APAC

Format

Experiential and blended

Cost

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The programme

Elevate your leadership with Beacon

Beacon is a comprehensive leadership development programme tailored for high-potential leaders poised to tackle the dynamic challenges of today and the future. This programme equips emerging leaders with essential skills to lead ambitiously and creatively, build empathetic and effective relationships, and drive significant organizational impact.

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Programme overview

Through immersive learning experiences and expert facilitation, Beacon participants develop a unique leadership identity, learning to inspire teams and influence broader networks for sustained success.

  1. Think like a Leader: Uncover the mindset, behaviours, and type of thinking necessary to inspire, guide, and deliver impact in a leadership role.
  2. Defining your Leadership Identity: Discover and articulate your unique leadership style, values, and strengths to guide and inspire others toward shared goals.
  3. Situational Leadership: Assess your readiness to adapt your leadership approach to the specific needs and capabilities of individuals or teams, recognizing that different situations call for different leadership approaches.
  4. Building high-performing teams: Cultivate a collaborative environment where diverse talents converge to achieve exceptional results through synergy, innovation, and shared commitment to excellence.
  5. Influencing outside your Remit: Leverage your expertise and relationships to effect positive change and drive outcomes beyond your immediate sphere of responsibility.

Using our transformative leadership model, COMPASS, which is delivered through a series of immersive experiences and expert guidance, you will learn essential leadership skills, nurture a growth mindset, and gain invaluable insights into good leadership practices.

As a result of the programme you will become a more:

  • Balanced Changemaker: Master the art of balancing competing priorities within individuals, teams, and the organization. Develop skills to align personal ambitions with organizational goals
  • Open-Minded Learner: Embrace a broad spectrum of perspectives and cultural viewpoints to enrich the decision-making processes. Recognize diverse world views to see the bigger picture and make more informed decisions.
  • Dynamic Innovator: Become a catalyst for curiosity and innovation within your teams. Learn to foster an environment that encourages independent learning and leverages diversity to boost team performance.
  • Perceptive Collaborator: Enhance your leadership effectiveness through increased self-awareness. Reflect on your strengths and areas for improvement.

  • Immersive Learning Experiences: Explore real-world challenges through highly immersive, experiential learning sessions. Investigate local issues using the perspectives of established, inspiring leaders to gain practical insights and innovative problem-solving skills.
  • Rich Diverse Peer Network: Join a dynamic, diverse community of peers. Connect and share rich insights, experiences, and knowledge. Collaborate with a supportive network, enhancing your learning through the collective expertise of the group.
  • Action Coaching: Intimate action learning experiences where you work together with your cohort on your personal leadership challenges.
  • Unrivalled Exposure: Access to a series of broader leadership insights at a national and global level from world class leaders and organizations.
  • Expert Facilitation by Game-Changing Leaders: Experience transformative sessions guided by our exceptional facilitators who are trailblazers in their fields. They will inspire you, challenge your thinking, and support your growth through their innovative approaches and industry insights.
  • Exceptional Online Learning: Engage with our high-quality content tailored to today’s leaders, delivered through an online platform that ensures a seamless, interactive learning experience.
  • Tailored Leadership Assessments & Reflection: Dive deep into self-awareness with our suite of evaluation tools, including 360-degree assessments and personalized reflection instruments. These resources will refine your leadership skills and tailor your journey to your personal and professional needs.

32.75 hours of CPD credit

What our alumni say

94%

would recommend the programme to a friend of colleague

92%

develop a broader network of peers through their programme

90%

have greater confidence in their role as a leader

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Linsey Jonsson
Organizational Lead for Publishing Services, Publich Health Scotland
"Fantastic programme. It opened up my mind to new ways of thinking and doing things. I hope this experience, plus a commitment to be more reflective by questioning my leadership and actively seeking feedback from others, will make a difference in my leadership as I continue to develop my craft."
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Adam Leech
Senior Youth Officer, VR Development, Foróige, the National Youth Development Organization
"Everyone, I mean everyone should have an opportunity to take part in a programme like this. What it unlocks within people is something so valuable, so fruitful and so important. Whether it expands your social networks or creates a higher level of understanding for self and others, it is all such important learnings."
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Aesha Francis
Operations Manager & Mindfulness Teacher/Facilitator, Urban Mindfulness Foundation
"The facilitators and guest speakers were a bonus that provided experiential examples and practical ways to navigate and cross boundaries through decision making and idea formation that was invaluable and human-centred. An unforgettable experience that will serve both my professional field of work and beyond."

Next steps

Navigate the next phase of growth in your leadership development with Common Purpose Beacon.

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Programme details:

LocationDate
London, Midlands & the South West5 March 2025
North of England4 March 2025
Scotland25 February 2025
Northern Ireland26 March 2025
IrelandMarch 2025
Asia PacificNovember 2024

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Frequently asked questions

Yes, if you have any further questions or would just like to discuss the programme in more detail, please reach out to a member of our team in your specific location who would be delighted to help.

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We are a global not-for-profit leadership development organization on a mission to develop people who can cross cultural, social, and institutional boundaries. We work passionately with people to help push the boundaries of what is possible, all so that they can become those who can help us to work better together, be the connectors of our unique lived experiences and lead, with a difference.

Yes! The Common Purpose Charitable Trust was established as a charity in 1989. It is registered with the Charity Commission under the Registered Charity number 1023384.

The benefits of Common Purpose leadership programmes include gaining increased:  

  • Agility in adapting to changing circumstances and environments.  

  • Empathy to what other people feel, think and need. Seeing things from their point of view.

  • Influence in leading change with limited decision-making power.  

  • Openness to new ideas, possibilities and perspectives, including views they might deeply disagree with.    

  • Purposefulness in leading with intentionality, determination, commitment and resilience.

  • Self-awareness to their behaviours and outlook, and how they interpret and respond to situations.

When it comes to learning, there is no substitute for the power of real experience and fresh perspective. Our approach uses a robust behaviour and mindset change philosophy rooted in real life leadership challenges and experiences. To turn those experiences into real learning we follow five tried and tested steps that lead to habitual change in how people think, feel and act.    

  1. Experience: Being presented with new experiences. Engaging with leaders across multiple boundaries and being immersed in new environments.   

  1. Reflection: Learning activities to gain a deeper and more personalized understanding of the learning.    

  1. Translate: Exploring how to relate new ideas and thought processes back into the learner’s role or context.

  1. Practice: Developing a set of leadership practices that can be used to turn new behaviours into habits.

  1. Assess: Embedding numerous assessments to help learners track their progress pre, during and even beyond the programme.

Experiential learning is a core component of our programmes.

Our programmes create a carefully constructed microclimate to explore real-life leadership challenges in a safe environment, often leading to the types of purpose-driven conversations needed to achieve transformative change.

We also focus on the importance of active learning, by getting people out of their comfort zones and into the world, seeing things, meeting people, taking part, and taking advantage of processes that stimulate multiple neural connections in the brain and promote memory.

We are Common Purpose

A global non-profit devoted to good leadership

Who we are

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