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An international leadership course for high potential, emergent leaders from different backgrounds, sectors, countries and continents. Its local nature fulfills a participant's desire 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.
12 August - 2 December 2010 Johannesburg / Gauteng
August - December 2011 Johannesburg / Gauteng
Common Purpose International Navigator is for people in the early to mid-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 courses, the participant group on Common Purpose International 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 course.
Because professional development paths so often require people to narrow down and specialise early in their careers, the risk is that this both frustrates emergent leaders and ill prepares them for leadership. Common Purpose International Navigator counterbalances this effect.
Participants thrive in an environment that helps them to combine their personal values and their professional skills. They become more aware, balanced, professional and passionate leaders.
Because everything to do with Common Purpose International Navigator is diverse - its participants, experiences, contributors and case studies - the course pulls participants out of their comfort zone to face up to their own biases.
Participants are energised and inspired by their access to a range of leaders and unfamiliar organisational settings as they investigate real-life challenges. They develop the ability to cope with complexity, communicate with partners, draw out creative ideas from diverse groups and the energy to become leaders who can build and lead collaborations.
The course spans four months. It is structured in a modular format to have local, regional and international elements which challenge the participants to consider leadership issues from very different perspectives, reflecting the real-life complexity of their own roles, interests and experiences.
All participants from across a region, or country, take part in three core days, where they explore the leadership themes of courage, power and resonance, and learn from each others' ideas and experiences.
In smaller, local groups participants choose to take part in several types of leadership modules:
The fee for International Navigator is R17,500 + VAT.
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 wish to apply for this reduction.
Mansoor MohamedExecutive Director: Economic, Social Development and Tourism, City of Cape Town
