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An international leadership programme 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.
"Common Purpose is great for business. Through a variety of structured exercises Common Purpose allowed me to examine my own passion and courage, personal objectives and business goals. I have refned my presentation skills, grown new business and developed strategic partnerships that are having a very tangible beneft to my organisation's bottom line."
Nick Price, Commercial Director, Square i Media
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 programmes, 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 programme.
The Navigator course is a dynamic and fast moving learning experience. Due to the varied nature and diverse structure of the events, participants can expect to practise a vast range of competencies including:
This results in motivated individuals who are able to significantly raise their game as potential leaders, both within their own organisations and in society as a whole.
Common Purpose Navigator is a five day programme, designed to reflect current issues and themes.
Participants are encouraged to engage with real life case-studies and experience the opportunity to challenge and be in conversation with leaders in their fields of speciality. For example, we'll take you to a prison, have you visit a hospital or get you into a production plant. Participants are taken out of their familiar environment to examine why, when and how they lead.
Typically the days focus on themes which affect all organisations and aim to show how people with different expertise and from a range of backgrounds tackle them. For example, how the senior officer of a government department manages risk with limited resources or how a small charity organisation manages a rigorous change programme.
The residential programme takes place in Dublin each year.
Similar courses are also run in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Germany and other countries in which Common Purpose operates.
The fee for Navigator is €4,500
There are a number of almost full (every participant must make some contribution) and part bursary places provided on every Common Purpose course for participants who are genuinely unable - as opposed to unwilling - to meet the full fee. Applicants who cannot pay the full fee should not be deterred from applying. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please fill in the section of the form for bursary candidates. If you need to discuss this further, please contact your local Common Purpose Office. Common Purpose Plus Everyone who has completed a Common Purpose course will be offered a 20% reduction on the fee of any future courses they attend. Please notify us in your course application if you
Download the Application Form and Equal Opportunities Form and send both by post or fax to your local Common Purpose office. For more about the overall application process, please visit the application page.
"As a result of having graduated from Common Purpose International Navigator I more effectively listen to and communicate with people from diverse backgrounds, improving the way I work inside and outside my organisation. This has increased my personal effectiveness and made me a better leader."
Russell Lyseight, Programme Planning and Governance Manager, Barclays
"Having chosen the non-profit sector for my career, I was pleased to see that the Navigator program confirmed my ideals that the world can be made a better place through the interaction of all sectors. And I was encouraged to see that 'leadership' is a skill that can be studied and sharpened. It's not always about changing the world, but about improving your own confidence in the ability to improve your part of it."
"Everyone in the country should go on it!! It was by far the best learning experience of my life." "I have gained a unique insight, which has given me the tools to become a better decision maker, advisor and leader." "I have learned to think beyond normal parameters and am more receptive to new ideas and new ways of thinking."
"Everyone in the country should go on it!! It was by far the best learning experience of my life."
"I have gained a unique insight, which has given me the tools to become a better decision maker, advisor and leader."
"I have learned to think beyond normal parameters and am more receptive to new ideas and new ways of thinking."
