What's new in Organisational Learning for Autumn Term 2025? 

The MyStaffDevelopment platform is live. This is one place to go to book workshops, access eLearning and see your learning record. 

This means that you will no longer book Organisational Learning courses via the Training and Development System nor find your self-access learning on the Astute platform. 

You will find everything in one place on our new platform. 

Please note that Organisational Learning and Development courses, workshops and programmes are no longer on the TDS. 

LSE Leadership framework 

LSE’s leadership framework outlines the School’s approach to leadership and within this the expecations of anyone leading at the School. The framework recognises that leadership can be demonstrated by everyone, not just those with leadership in their job description, in varying degrees, at individual, team, and LSE levels.

The framework has been developed so that it is underpinned by our organisational ethics and informed by our beliefs which in turn informs our actions as leaders at LSE.

The framework encompasses three leadership dimensions each with observable positive indicators:

• Leading Self - How I lead myself in my day-to-day work
• Leading Others - How I lead groups or teams, either formally or informally
• Leading LSE & Beyond - How I demonstrate leadership to contribute to LSE’s success

This framework has three primary objectives:

• Establish professional standards for leadership across LSE that define the culture needed to deliver our strategic vision
• Embed these standards throughout the employee lifecycle in practical ways to attract, retain, engage, and develop talent
• Equip leaders with the mindsets, skillsets and practices necessary to foster shared ownership of our cultural norms at LSE 

You can find the full framework here. 

The framework is the key pillar of our leadership development offer at the School. It underpins all of our development pathways and programmes.

Embed: Leadership in practice at LSE Programme

And talking of leadership development pathways, we will shortly launch a replacement to the Introduction to Leadership Programme.

The Embed Programme is for professional services staff in management roles at bands 6 to 8 who wish to develop their skills as leaders under LSE’s leadership framework and who may aspire to be senior managers and leaders of the future.  The programme has been designed to help these staff collectively lead and deliver the Schools emerging strategy over the next few years.  

This is a blended learning programme, based on a diagnostic conducted prior to the programme. Participants attend three full day workshops in three months, linked to aspects of the leadership framework; leading your self, leading others and LSE and beyond. Participants undertake a psychometric assessment to support their development and conduct self-study linked to their leadership diagnostic.

The content of the three workshops includes:

Workshop 1:

- Introduction to the programme

- Understanding your diagnostic

- Leadership at LSE

- Your space as an authentic leader

- Leading from within and emotional intelligence in leadership

Workshop 2: 

- Psychometric strengths assessment

- Leader as coach

- Inclusive leadership and psychological safety

- Influencing

Workshop 3: 

This workshop covers:

- Team dynamics

- Developing high-performing teams

- Transformational leadership and leading through change 

- Influencing

- Action learning and next steps

This programme is currently under development and will be launched in early 2026. For information on how to apply, please visit this page. 

Things you may have missed in 2024/25

Team development 

Do you manage and lead a team? Organisational Learning are here to support you in leading and developing your team. We can help you with:

• Understanding the strengths and development areas of your team, so as to leverage the strengths and take action around areas for development
• Conducting a team diagnostic of what is and isn’t working for your team and map out a plan of action based on this
• Understand where your team is at as a collective and look at how to build on this and develop going forward
• Set clear expectations and agree ways of working
• Conduct a psychometric assessment with the team to understand what motivates, energises and deenergises your team.
• A combination of all of the above

This is an offer open to all teams. It's designed to support you in maxmising the potential of your team and your own leadership. It's about understanding how you can make the environment for your team members more authentic, empowering and tailored to the team's needs.

If you would like us to run a psychometric assessment for your team, or a team diagnostic and development report, please do get in contact at hr.learning@lse.ac.uk . We can then talk you through the options we have available and what’s right for you and your team.