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Contribution Analysis

establishing plausible causal contributions in changing systems
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Dynamics in Human-AI Teams

Work better together in the context of AI with our new consulting package
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Lifelong learning in Europe: what has changed since 2000?

This research tells a story of rigid learning ladders gradually giving way to flexible learning networks across the European Union
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Dr Mónica Velarde Lazarte
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Authority, Leadership and Organisation: Exploring the hopes and fears in building partnerships
This Group Relations Conference is hosted by The Institute for Leadership and Transformation (TILT)
and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations | 3 – 6 November 2025
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Reducing gambling harm: lessons from the field

This learning and evaluation partnership aims to strengthen local system approaches to gambling harms across Great Britain
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Making sense of endings and beginnings in life and leadership

This Lunchtime Talk is with Dr Majken Askeland, senior consultant at AFF, the largest leadership development environment in Norway and Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Lunchtime Talks
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Further discovery sessions for Deepening Creative Practice, 1st and 8th April 2025

Free session to find out what Deepening Creative Practice will look like in 2025

Talks & presentations
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Turning chaos into growth: Lessons from war zones for leaders and organisations

Lunchtime Talk with Yeshim Harris | Wednesday 19 February 2025, 1pm — 2:30pm UTC

Lunchtime Talks
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Improving the flexibility of European learning systems

Making learning outcomes transferable is key to improving employability
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Seeking an adultier adult: explore human creativity in organisations

Over the last few decades, there has been an increased focus on how organisations can ‘improve’ creativity and innovation. Join us on Weds November 20 at 1pm — 2.30pm to discuss

Lunchtime Talks
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New framework to help measure the Just Transition in Scotland

A blueprint for the achievement of equitable outcomes during the low-carbon transition
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Strengthening local networks to reduce gambling-related harm

Blog 1 from this learning and evaluation programme with GambleAware
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Dreaming for the Future, with Dr Franca Fubini and Susan Long

Inspired by Susan Long’s writing about anticipatory dreams and dreaming for the future, Franca Fubini will explore how the matrix dreams from the past in order to develop dreaming for the future.

Lunchtime Talks
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Neurodiversity at work: learning from a global study on accessibility in the workplace

Inspired by the concept of biodiversity, neurodiversity is a concept that recognises neurological differences in individuals, including Autism, ADHD, dyslexia and Sensory Processing Disorder.

Lunchtime Talks
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Measures to tackle labour shortages: lessons for future policy

The 2023 Eurofound report finds that pay, working conditions and quality of life measures are important alongside investment in training plus holistic support for vulnerable groups.
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What’s love got to do with it?

Considering the relationship between love and work
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The Tavistock Community: our story so far…

A talk presented by Agnès Berthoz, Laure Fraval, Kalina Stamenova and Eva Worm

Lunchtime Talks
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Why we need children’s hospices

David Strudley CBE FRSA makes the case for a major expansion of children’s hospice services.

Lunchtime Talks
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Developing evaluation capacity

For over 15 years, we have been supporting practitioners in different sectors to build their evaluation capacity...

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Systems thinking at the Tavistock Institute

— past, present and future

Lunchtime Talks
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Evaluating design enabled innovations

Special session: towards a common impact evaluation methodology

Lunchtime Talks
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Applied Anthropology in Organisational Research & Consultancy

Why is anthropology important when understanding organisations?

Lunchtime Talks
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Impact of Covid-19 on front-line practitioners

Anna Sophie Hahne, Georgie Parry-Crooke and Thomas Spielhofer presented findings from the TIHR Covid-19 research study.

Lunchtime Talks
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Business School At Canterbury Christ Church
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Coaching for Leadership: Psychodynamic Approaches
Thinking about becoming an executive coach?
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Why don’t we put people first?
The unthinkable and unsayable in Caribbean leadership
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Covid-19 & Teleworking – Tale of two cities
The impact of teleworking and digital work on workers and society.
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Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change (P3C)
An invitation to grow your unknowingness
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Adults in the room
The Boardroom beyond 2021
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Survey results: Impact of COVID-19
We conducted an international online survey of over 250 professionals and qualitative interviews exploring how the pandemic has impacted them.
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Responding to and learning from changes during Covid-19

The fifth and final blog from the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic sharing learning on the sector’s strengths and challenges experienced over this time, as well as some of the desires and concerns for the future expressed by project staff.
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Medici Digital Stories
The launch of a new podcast...
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Authority & Role: Disruptive Caribbean Leadership
Do you have the Courage?
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Covid-19 and the Women and Girls Initiative

The first of 5 blogs about COVID-19, which shared some of the achievements of projects as they quickly and effectively mobilised to support women despite the challenges presented by the pandemic.
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Art as status symbol and game-changer
Deeping Creative Practice: a new programme.
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Research & Professional Development Apprentice
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Practitioner Certificate in Consulting & Change
We are now inviting applications for the next cohort.
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Leadership in the Caribbean: A New Dawn
Are you serious? How ready is the Caribbean to lead in its own unique way?
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Testing New Ground
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Consulting to Countries
Developing new understandings of corruption with a think tank in Finland.
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Break out of the same-old... 

Whether you’re starting your first job, moving to a new one, or trying to break out of the same-old, there are ways of working that can give you a big advantage
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Art and Organisation at the Institute

The story of our work with arts. Expanding our disciplines and customising practice.
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A new dawn for Caribbean leadership
Are you ready? We are pleased to announce that the second Group Relations Conference takes place in the Caribbean...
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Why evaluation capacity development matters: the British Council approach

Defining critical factors for the success of any evaluation capacity training.

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Eliat Aram, CEO
on the role of the Tavistock Institute in developing leadership
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Research Apprentice - Job Advert
Our apprenticeship programme is now in its sixth year, we are looking for the next apprentice to join us!
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A tribe of a different sort…
Different women, Different places is a comparative study of the lives and experiences of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse women leading and working in the UK and beyond.
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Dr Eliat Aram announced as IoD London & South Director of the year awards finalist
Delighted to announce that Dr Eliat Aram, CEO, has been shortlisted...
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Peace not War
Art of Enlightened Followership...
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What can design do to improve our cities?

Promoting and encouraging the take-up of design as an enabler of innovation in the urban environment.  
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Revaluation: Measuring Value, Making Value
Revaluation is a new methodology for measuring change in complex systems. It has been created by Andrew Darnton and Andrew Harrison, and comes out of a year’s work evaluating ‘bottom-up’ change in the NHS.
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Crossing boundaries: immerse yourself in the arts during our festival
A roundup of artistic interventions taking place as part of our 70th Festival.
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The Client speaks...

This article on executive coaching is part of a series of thought-pieces developed by Dr Mannie Sher. In this article, space is given over to the client who speaks about the value of executive coaching.
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The Social Seducement story: the value of online games in enterprise creation
David Drabble and Heather Stradling talk about Social Seducement.
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The Application of Tavistock Group Relations - Guliverio Akademija
A new school opens in Lithuania.
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Exploring Connectedness
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TIHR Projects Over the Decades
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The Social Seducement story: the value of online games in enterprise creation
Lunchtime Talk Extra: David Drabble, Heather Stradling - listen online
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Not sure what to do next? We’re recruiting our next apprentice…
Our apprenticeship programme is coming into its fifth year and we are looking for the next person to join our team.
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Revaluation: Measuring Value, Making Value
Podcast: Revaluation is a new methodology for measuring change in complex systems. It has been created by Andrew Darnton and Andrew Harrison, and comes out of a year’s work evaluating ‘bottom-up’ change in the NHS.
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Help! How do I cope with all this complexity?
Lunchtime Talk: Dione Hills - 15th March
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“Tavistock, we have a problem…..!”

(with apologies to the crew of the Apollo 13 moon flight...)
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Fearless Leadership 2017
The Best Price Yet.
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Leicester Conference 2017
The Global Leadership Intensive
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South Africa in crisis
Taking up responsibility: Leading our Transformation: a Group Relations conference this December.
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Reflexive authority:
The crucial role of Supervision. The supervisor is the crucial figure, the Third, the individual who enters the dyad created by coach/consultant & client..
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Not sure what to do next year?
We’re recruiting our next apprentice… The TIHR apprenticeship programme is coming into its fourth year and we are looking for the next person...
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An opportunity to widen your field
Certificate in Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy.
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Expanding our evaluation training offer
More professional groups & sectors face a demand to demonstrate the effectiveness & value of the work they provide...
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Handling Complexity
Handling Complexity: The third in the series of lunchtime dialogues on the Dynamics of Evaluation, presented by Eliat Aram, Dione Hills and Kerstin Junge.
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Anna Sophie Hahne
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Lunchtime Talk: Handling Complexity
The third in the series of lunchtime dialogues on the Dynamics of Evaluation.
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'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all…?
Certificate in Supervision for Consultancy and Coaching - apply now!
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Coming of Age at TIHR
Marking time: reflections on TIHR's apprenticeship programme.
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Evaluating ourselves
Findings from the TIHR apprentice scheme.
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Evaluation as reflective practice
A presentation by Camilla Child and Dione Hills as part of our new series of lunchtime dialogues on The Dynamics of Evaluation, which contributes to the celebration of the International Year of Evaluation.
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Certificate in Coaching for Leadership 2016
A panoptic vision for interesting times!
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The couch at sea!
A new Certificate in Supervision for Coaching & Consultancy.
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The evaluation process: resistance, politics and role
Through the lens of a recent evaluation project that the Tavistock Institute was commissioned to undertake, Giorgia Iacopini presents an experience of what it can mean to intervene in an organisation with an evaluation.
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Podcast: Evaluation as reflective practice
The first in a new series of lunchtime dialogues on The Dynamics of Evaluation
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Lunchtime Talk: Dr Kerstin Junge & Giorgia Iacopini
From their paper at the Evaluation for an Equitable Society (EES) conference.
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Fair Share
We are delighted to be part of Fair Share, an EU-wide free online training platform for fair trade entrepreneurs, employees and volunteers.
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Long term endemic problems or short term necessities?
- highlighting the need for renewal in your practice/being.
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The evaluation process: resistance, politics and role
A talk by Giorgia Iacopini, next at TIHR's 'Food for Thought': 24 September 2014.
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Mental Well-being Impact Assessments
A recent presentation by Sadie King, Senior Researcher/ Consultant (TIHR), from our ‘Food for Thought‘ lunchtime talk series.
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Lunchtime Talk: Sadie King - 2 July
Come and hear Sadie talk about Mental Well-being Impact Assessments (MWIA).
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Preventing Human Trafficking: New Tavistock Action-Research
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Top Quality Visiting Faculty: Board Dynamics
We are pleased to announce a top quality visiting faculty for the Certificate in Dynamics at Board Level 2014.
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Evaluating politically sensitive programmes: the case of Preventing Violent Extremism (Prevent)
G. Iacopini and L. Stock. (2013) Evaluating Politically Sensitive Programmes: The Case of Preventing Violent Extremism (Prevent), British Library MBS Portal, 2013.
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StepUp! Hounslow Youth
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) recently completed the evaluation of StepUp! Hounslow Youth, commissioned by Hounslow Council. StepUp! Hounslow Youth is part of a programme of work undertaken in Hounslow which seeks to develop community inclusion and resilience amongst its many communities. It also relates to a more specific strand of work related to preventing violent extremism, which the TIHR has extensively worked on.
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Karen Wykes
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Working with the Dynamics of Lean Transformations
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TIHR call for Financial Conduct Authority to focus on board dynamics
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Report: Evaluation Of NESTA’s Learning Programme
A report on the work carried out during the evaluation of NESTA ‘Learning Programme presenting its main results, conclusions and recommendations.
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Report: New Deal Disabled People Innovative Scheme Pilots
TIHR evaluation team was commissioned to undertake an evaluation alongside the New Deal Disabled People Innovative Scheme Pilots.
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Report: Books and Bytes: New Service Paradigms for the 21st Century Library
A report concerning the Evaluation of the People’s Network and ICT Training for Public Library Staff Programme.
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Report: New Guidance for Evaluation in the Transport Sector
TIHR in partnership with AECOM, were commissioned by the Department for Transport to develop a set of guidance for those commissioning and undertaking impact evaluations in the transport sector.
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Tim Dartington
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James Mackay
My work in coaching, assessment, and management development focuses on individuals and how they reflect on - and meet - the challenges of their environment, and shape a rewarding career: the experience, talents and perspectives they deploy; reading, and communicating with, the organisational culture; and evolving so as to achieve fulfilment over time, whilst achieving what roles require. To this I bring a background in the private and public sectors, including general management, fused with a range of theoretical insights from several disciplines.
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Karen Izod
I am a consultant, coaching practitioner, and academic working in the field of organisational change.
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Coreene Archer
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Status of e-Inclusion Measurement Analysis and Approaches for Improvement
Study aimed at informing the Riga Ministerial Conference on e-Inclusion (June 2006) and the Commission’s e-Inclusion Action Plan 2007-2008.
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Policy lessons from EU’s Regional Programmes of Innovative Actions
Regional Programmes of Innovative Actions were ERDF funded programmes which gave EU regions the opportunity to engage in experimental innovation projects...
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Evaluation of Phase Two Skilled for Health
TIHR was part of the National Evaluation team for the second phase of 'Skilled for Health'. We used a ‘Theory of Change’ framework to evaluate Skilled for Health at programme, project and individual level.
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Can Organisations Learn from Experience?
Set against the changes of the NHS in the 1990’s, management at all levels were anxious and exhausted. Over a period of five years, a Health Authority in the Home Counties went through seven mergers.
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Kurt Lewin - 'Dynamic Approach Rule'
First part of Dr Jean Neumann's four-part series summarising selected Lewinian principles. Each article demonstrates Kurt Lewin’s continuing relevance today by using examples from both the archive and from more recent projects.
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Big Society Consultation
TIHR submits response to the Big Society consultation committee.
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‘The Aesthetics of Group Relations’
The Institute’s CEO, Eliat Aram, gave a key note address at the AK Rice symposium in Chicago, Illinois in October 2010. Eliat's paper, entitled: 'The Aesthetics of Group Relations – Design, leadership and the art of learning in contemporary GR thinking and practice' can be read and heard here.
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'Understanding the Psychology of Regulation'
A paper by the Institute's Principal Consultant Mannie Sher, presented at Centre for Parliamentary Studies’ International Regulatory Affairs Symposium.
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An easy to follow guide on developing logic maps
Logic mapping, hints and tips' is a simple to use guide to logic mapping, produced by the Tavistock Institute which has just been published on the Department of Transport website.
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The voluntary and community sector: supporting parents and families
This study, for the Department for Children, Schools and Families, explored the role played in the Every Child Matters agenda, by the voluntary and community sector in England as a key provider in supporting parents, carers and families.
Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change
Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change

P3C is a certificated programme providing you with advanced theoretical and practical foundations to grow and deepen as an organisational consultant or change agent.
Certificate in Coaching for Leadership: Psychodynamic Approaches
Certificate in Coaching for Leadership: Psychodynamic Approaches

A hybrid, certificated professional development programme in 4 modules, accredited by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

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Certificate in Dynamics at Board Level

A certificated programme on effective board leadership: acquire insights into group dynamics, unconscious processes, and emotional intelligence.
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Strategic Leadership Circles

Transformative conversations for senior healthcare leaders
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Leading and working from the screen

Explore the visible and invisible dynamics in remote work at this fully online, three-day experiential programme, with an optional fourth day
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The Room: Human-AI Leadership Circle

A leadership circle for leaders navigating the business impact of AI 
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