Friday 14 Mar 2008 @ 09:31
Learning and Skills Network
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LSN launches new Leadership and Management Unit
As the demands on post-16 education continue to grow, so do the demands on the sector’s leaders and managers. The Learning Skills Network is helping learning providers respond to these demands through the launch of its Leadership and Management Unit.
The unit will deliver an exciting package of leadership and management programmes and services. Combining practical tools and techniques, it will offer ways to make a difference in both the long and short term as well as sustaining development, improving performance and facilitating change. Action learning, coaching and mentoring skills will form an integral part of this.
The new unit will be headed up by Shaun Lincoln (MA in HRM, MProf in Coaching, FCIPD) who joins LSN from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) on 31 March 2008 as associate director. The unit will draw on a wide range of Solution Focused approaches that Shaun used whilst designing and delivering the highly acclaimed Leaders as Coaches programme with CEL from 2004 to 2008.
In his four years with CEL, Shaun and his team worked very successfully with over 80 FE colleges in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Jersey on a variety of leadership and management development initiatives, many using coaching, action learning, and mentoring. He specialised in introducing and developing Solution Focused approaches to management, organisational change and learning and development and in many colleges these now play a key role in ever-improving performance and learner outcomes. He also set up a national network of coaches and mentors for the sector.
Shaun also works closely with the Metropolitan Police Service and Greater Manchester Police, having helped them introduce and build internal coaching communities that enable their managers and leaders to realise their full potential and that of their teams. He is also a frequent speaker at CIPD and SOL conferences.
Prior to working in the learning and skills sector, Shaun worked as an executive coach and human resource development specialist in both the private and higher education sector. He specialises in leadership and management, having worked overseas as a management consultant and coach in Italy with Ciba Specialty Chemicals, and in Vietnam with the Nord Anglia Education Group where he worked with Unilever, Samsung and BP. His work on the use of action learning in leadership development as part of a MA in HRM won the CIPD national management report prize in 2003.
If you would like to find out more about the new Leadership and Management Unit, please contact Shaun at SLincoln@lsneducation.org.uk
