People Management for Creative Teams

This course is opening for applications soon!

This programme is designed to give emerging managers, team leaders and professionals in the creative industries the practical tools, confidence and people-management awareness to lead teams more effectively and take their next step with clarity. It has been shaped to fit around busy creative-sector schedules, while still providing robust, practical and impactful development.

Across the course, you’ll build a strong foundation in effective people management while learning directly from experienced professionals who understand the pressures, pace and complexity of creative workplaces. You’ll explore how to communicate clearly, delegate well, manage performance, support different working styles and create the conditions for people and teams to do their best work.

You’ll connect with peers facing similar management challenges, develop practical approaches to real workplace situations, and build confidence in handling the everyday responsibilities that come with managing people, projects and team performance.

With expert support and a practical, applied approach, you will:

Understand the role and responsibilities of an effective manager
Learn how to set clear expectations, communicate priorities and build trust
Develop confidence in delegation, accountability and follow-up
Explore how to motivate individuals and support high-performing teams
Learn how to give useful feedback and handle performance conversations
Build practical tools for managing conflict, pressure and difficult situations
Understand how inclusive management supports better communication, fairness and team performance
Explore how wellbeing, workload and psychological safety affect team effectiveness
Develop practical approaches to managing freelancers, project teams, permanent staff and cross-functional working relationships
Build your own people-management action plan to apply directly in your workplace

This is practical, supportive training designed to meet managers where they are. It’s collaborative, focused and rooted in the realities of creative-sector work, with a delivery structure that respects the demands of busy organisations while still giving participants the confidence, tools and management behaviours to support people well, improve team performance and step into greater responsibility with purpose.

What is a Skills Bootcamp?

A Skills Bootcamp is a government funded employability training offer. Subjects are varied but respond to skills gaps identified from working with employers. A Skills Bootcamp is a minimum 60hr course and open to residents of the UK who are over 19 years old and have the right to work in the UK.

What is an apprenticeship?

An apprenticeship is just like a normal job but apprentices spend 20% of their contracted hours training to equip them for their role and future career.

Is it really free?

Apprenticeships are free to the learner, the employer may contribute a small amount to the training.
Skills Bootcamps are also free to the learner – if the learner works full time then their employer contributes 10% of the training if they are a small organisation and 30% if they are a large organisation.