Cranfield Trust

Day

Wednesday 15 June

Time slot

15:30-16:30

This event took place almost 2 years ago

Room

Dochart suite
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

Alice Dabrowska
01794 830 338

Topic

Leadership

Who was the event aimed at?

Directors

Who spoke at this event?

Gillian Bell - Cranfield Trust Manager Scotland
Stephen Cahill - Cranfield Trust Manager Scotland
Alice Dabrowska - Cranfield Trust Head of Operations
Amanda Tincknell CBE - Cranfield Trust CEO

Event summary and materials

What was covered in your sessions?

As leaders and managers, everyone in our team needs to feel supported, guided and recognised. We discussed how effective leaders need to be authentic, adaptive and generous in this complex and uncertain world?

Cranfield Trust’s roundtable explored what we need to learn and re-learn to enhance leadership in our organisations and make sure that our teams get what they need from us.

Was there any useful feedback or reflection from the participants?

From input gathered through breakout groups, we found that our sector colleagues have a traditional experience of leadership roles (giving examples of Chief Executives and other senior roles), but rated the ability to form relationships, clear communications and empathy above more technical leadership qualities, or personal leadership attributes. It may be that the voluntary sector values collaborative leadership particularly highly: qualities rated most strongly were clarity of communication, listening skills and responsiveness.

How people can find out more or get involved in your work?

Please do have a look at Cranfield Trust’s website to see how we can help you, or contact our office on talktous@cranfieldtrust.org. We are here for you.