A flexible and personalized leadership course that offers modular learning and development for established leaders.
What is Meridian?
Meridian is an experiential leadership programme for senior leaders.
Meridian develops leaders with the skills, networks and understanding to make an impact in their organization and across their city. The programme uses a real-world experiential approach. We convene leaders from every corner of the city to share honest accounts of their leadership challenges. We take participants to places and organizations where they can explore how leaders approach complex change in different contexts.
The learning process facilitates constant exposure to each other, to the guest contributors and to the experience of operating in very unfamiliar situations.
Spanning a five month period, Meridian offers a flexible modular format that means leaders can tailor it to meet their individual needs and to match their diaries.
The course includes three full days when all of the participants gather - at the start, midpoint and end of the course. In addition, each leader chooses from over 20 events to explore a huge range of real-life challenges - based in anything from a prison to a casualty unit; a trading floor to a production plant; a small business incubator to a radio station.
The learning process facilitates constant exposure to each other, to the guest contributors and to the experience of operating in very unfamiliar situations.
“I am certainly more self aware than I was at the start of the programme. I believe this will change and already has changed my interactions with people. I also see the world in a much bigger context. I have the drive to now dream big.”
Who is Meridian for?
Meridian is for established leaders who are already experienced at delivering objectives and managing people and priorities. It is ideal for leaders who are responsible for developing partnerships, engaging with internal or external stakeholders, working across several locations, divisions or countries or who simply need to broaden their horizons.
Benefits to participants
- Become more accustomed to going outside their familiar environment and better able to adapt to new situations.
- Develop lasting working relationships with people they would almost certainly never have met otherwise.
- Learn how to lead in situations where they have no authority and how to become the kinds of people who can build and lead collaborations when required.
- Become responsible leaders who understand their local surroundings - in the national and international context - and the impact of their decisions.
- Improve their Cultural Intelligence by discovering how their own language, behaviour and biases can get in their way as leaders.
- Find out when and how they can make their own contribution at work and in society.
Modules
- Understanding the city - behind-the-scene insights about how the metropolitan area really works.
- Understanding change - real-life leadership scenarios based in hospitals, schools, businesses and council chambers, meeting and quizzing the leaders who make the decisions there.
- Leadership insights - key leaders share their first hand knowledge - from their successes and failures - of leading beyond their immediate area of authority to create positive change.
- Learning groups - tackling the challenges brought by participants to the group sessions.
- Practices - participants are set a series of leadership 'practices', small challenges to complete in their own time that will broaden their thinking.
Important Information
Meridian participants complete a minimum of 60 hours of learning. On each course day, the participants meet at a different venue within the area to give them a range of perspectives. On the three core days - at the start, mid-point and end - participants look at why, where and how they lead and at how their biases influence their leadership. Between the core days, participants select from a series of half-day modules.
Participants can choose to do some of their hours on a Meridian course in other international cities.
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If you have any questions about the programme or the application process please contact your local Common Purpose office.
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