Technical Leadership: Leading Self and Others
Leadership and Management
◷ Cohort | £595 | 🔀︎ Hybrid
Course Overview:
This cohort-based programme helps technical leaders at all levels build the confidence, clarity and practical skills to lead themselves and others. Across four interactive days, you’ll explore what it means to lead in a technical environment — strengthening your communication and influence through experiential learning, reflection and peer collaboration, while building sustainable habits for resilience and impact.
Who is it for?
Technical Leaders at all levels who have not attended a full leadership programme before and want to be part of a multi-disciplinary group to actively learn with peers.
Cost:
£595
Course dates:
Monday 9th November , 9:30am – 4:00pm (Online)
Thursday 10th December, 9:30am – 4:00pm (Online)
Wednesday 20th January, 9:30am – 4:00pm (Online)
Tuesday 2nd March, 9:30am – 4:00pm (In-person)
Time commitment:
26 hours training plus 1-2 hours in between sessions.
Delivery format:
Hybrid
Why choose this course?
Course highlights:
• Learn alongside a multi-disciplinary cohort of technical leaders, with peer collaboration built into all four days.
• Use examples and case studies drawn from real technical and research leadership environments.
• Build practical tools across influence, delegation, difficult conversations and resilience.
Proven results:
🏅 Trusted by more than 2,000 technicians from 150 UK organisations.
🏅 90%+ of participants rated our paid-for courses “Very good” for overall quality.
🏅 Paid programmes are strongly associated with deeper learning, greater confidence, and lasting behaviour change.
Course content:
Session One: Leading Self: Awareness, Confidence and Influence
Wednesday 13 October, 9.30am – 4pm | Online
• Explore your leadership identity and what kind of leader you want to be.
• Identify and use your personal strengths through strengths-based and situational leadership.
• Explore your influence style and how to adapt it to gain buy-in.
Session 2: Communicating and Empowering Others
Monday 9 November, 9.30am – 4pm | Online
• Communicate with clarity, purpose and empathy in technical contexts.
• Delegate for growth, letting go while maintaining accountability.
• Use coaching-style conversations to build trust and empower others.
Session 3: Leading Teams through Challenge and Change
Thursday 10 December, 9.30am – 4pm | Online
• Understand team development stages and behavioural dynamics.
• Navigate difficult conversations and reframe conflict as learning.
• Apply frameworks for constructive feedback and stay regulated under pressure.
Session 4: Integration, Resilience and Celebration
Wednesday 20 January, 9.30am – 4pm | In person, Nottingham
• Reflect on the capabilities you have strengthened since Day 1.
• Apply the Resilience Radar to sustain performance and wellbeing.
• Work through real upcoming leadership challenges with your peers.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
• Define your leadership identity and the kind of leader you want to be.
• Use your strengths intentionally to build credibility and trust.
• Apply communication and delegation strategies that empower others and drive ownership.
• Understand team dynamics and create the conditions for strong performance.
• Approach difficult conversations with confidence.
• Influence across boundaries and lead through ambiguity with authenticity and purpose.
• Build strategies to maintain your wellbeing and resilience.
Course Leader
Ruth Francis
ITSS Consulting Lead and Learning and Development Manager
1262 technical professionals have benefited from leadership and management courses delivered by the Learning and Development Academy.
FAQs
How do I book a training course?
Our training courses can be booked and paid for online through University of Nottingham Online Store.
You will be directed to the online stores and asked to make an account using your email address (you can use any email), you will also be asked to create a password.
Course bookings will close two working days before half day and one day courses and two weeks before cohort courses.
Your place on the course is confirmed only once full payment has been received.
What payment options are available?
The online store accepts credit, debit card or paypal.
Why is the course payment via University of Nottingham Online Store and not The UK Institute for Technical Skills & Strategy?
The UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy is hosted by the University of Nottingham.
To streamline the payment process, we are using University of Nottingham’s free online stores service to manage payments. It’s a secure payment method which is tried and tested. Receipts for organisations are available, please include your organisation name and VAT Reg number at the checkout.
The payment will appear as University of Nottingham on the payment card statement.
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