Develop your capacity to act more effectively when working remotely

This four-day programme combines experiential learning, practice and key theoretical concepts to illuminate the conscious and unconscious organisational and social dynamics specific to the online medium.

Remote working is an integral part of organisational life, presenting a new set of challenges and requiring leaders, managers and team members to widen their competencies. 

Such issues have a powerful impact on individual and team functioning, creativity and effectiveness, as well as on organisational and personal wellbeing. 

Some of the answers lie in the invisible and perhaps unconscious individual, team and organisational processes and dynamics that operate beneath the surface, when we work virtually, or in a hybrid manner.

This practice-based programme provides opportunities to learn about the visible and invisible dynamics of remote working, in real time. 

Through a unique combination of experiential learning, practice and an exploration of key theoretical concepts, we aim to equip leaders, managers and team members with an enhanced ability to recognise and manage the visible and invisible dynamics of remote working, at the individual, team and organisational levels.

Who is this programme for?

The programme is for leaders, managers and team members from organisations that operate remotely or with a partially remote workforce, from any professional sector. 

Suitable for entrepreneurs, consultants, HR professionals, coaches, facilitators, educators, activists, administrators, public sector and non-profit professionals, marketing, legal and financial professionals. 

The training programme is open to participants from all parts of the world and will take place in English.

No previous experience is necessary, just curiosity and a desire to learn and develop.

What to expect

Through a combination of experiential learning, practice and an exploration of key theoretical concepts, the programme will equip you with a greater capacity to recognise, understand and manage the visible and invisible dynamics of remote working, within your respective roles, at the individual, team and organisational levels.

Participants will work with an international staff team of leading practitioners.

• You can expect to build your effectiveness in working with the underlying dynamics within and between teams, departments, organisations and communities;
• You will gain practical experience to enhance your management style, by working on real issues to find real solutions, and learning directly from existing challenges in the here and now.

Format

This four-day programme is divided into two parts: three full days, followed by one full day one week later. 

When: Three consecutive full days, followed by one full day one week later. A detailed timetable will be available nearer the time.

Where: Fully online via Zoom, with informal networking opportunities available outside formal activities.

Capacity: The number of spaces is limited to ensure a tailored experience.

Programme goals

Leading from the screen is designed to enable you to:

• Observe, understand and manage the dynamics of dispersed teams and global organisations from your screen;
• Explore how we collectively and individually take up roles, negotiate authority, accomplish tasks and manage boundaries, when working virtually, and reflect on the experience and learning in “real time”;
• Work with competition, collaboration, conflict, coalition-building and delegation, as well as with care and envy;
• Discover aspects of hybrid or virtual team life that create vitality, creativity and goal fulfilment and those which lead to resistance, complacency, inertia and decline;
• Learn more about the blocks and enablers of good work, when online;
• Better understand how you influence others and how you are influenced by them when working in a virtual environment;
• Practise in real time and receive feedback.
  
  

Meet the team

This programme is led by Leila Djemal and staffed by Avi Nutkevitch, Kalina Stamenova, Matthew Gieve, Louise Edberg and Sarah Wynick.

Leila Djemal

Leila Djemal, MA, is an organisational consultant and executive coach.  She is Co-Founder and past Co-Director of TouchOFEK – Professional Development Courses, where she currently teaches.  She previously held positions in advertising agencies, as a client in marketing and corporate communications, and more recently in organisation development and change management within organisations. She has directed Group Relations conferences and been part of staff teams in the UK, Europe...

Avi Nutkevitch

Avi Nutkevitch, PhD, is a training psychoanalyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society and an organizational consultant.  As a psychoanalyst he teaches and supervises at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute and at the Psychotherapy Program at Tel Aviv University. He has been working as an organizational consultant within a psychoanalytic-systemic approach for over 30 years. He is in the founding group of OFEK – Association for the Study...

Kalina Stamenova

Kalina Stamenova, PhD, is an academic, researcher and organisational consultant working at the University of Essex, UK.  Her research interests involve the psychoanalytic understanding of groups and organisations and researching the hidden dynamics of online work and she has recently contributed a chapter on The Effects of Hybrid Work – Leading by the Screen in Leading with Depth edited by Claudia Nagel.  As an organisational consultant, Kalina has...

Matthew Gieve

I am a social researcher, group relations practitioner, and consultant. The thread that connects my various roles and projects is a lifelong interest in social, psychological, and political questions: the ways childhood experiences shape us as adults, how our knowledge and beliefs frame our perceptions, how our organisations, industries, and societies are structured and how these might be changed? Through my work at the Institute, I...