Positive Value Leadership - Foundation

Calibre Credits™ are awarded where the learner passes the relevant IOWL assessment requirements, completed through the relevant assessment model. They are awarded by the Global Institute for Calibre & Integrity™ and form part of the learner's professional standing record.

Candidates complete the required learning engagement before undertaking the combined Calibre assessment: a knowledge examination and a structured reflective question. Both components must meet the required standard and are interpreted within assessment-integrity requirements. Successful candidates may receive between 31 and 50 Calibre Credits™. Review the public Basis of Calibre >

IOWL Positive Value Leadership courses are delivered online as a structured, personal journey of self-propelled learning, reflection and transformation. The Smartboard provides the curriculum, guided learning, reflective activities and coursework that learners are expected to study, consider and apply to their own context.

Live, interactive virtual tutorials then bring that independent learning to life. They are designed for conversation, questioning, experience, challenge, reflection and application rather than for repeating the curriculum as a lecture.

On Foundation, Keystone and Capstone, live tutorials are led by a pathway-authorised IOWL Calibre Catalyst™. A Catalyst has personally completed and passed the pathway at the level they are authorised to deliver and has then separately met IOWL's preparation and live-delivery approval requirements. The Catalyst's role is to help learners interrogate experience, surface assumptions and connect what they are learning to judgement, values and conduct.

Tutorial discussion deliberately keeps Capability, Competency and Calibre distinct: what you know and understand; what you can do with that knowledge; and the judgement, values and conduct governing how, why and for whose benefit you use both. Learners are expected to bring their own real situations into the discussion and to learn from the experiences and perspectives of others.

Positive Value Leadership is designed as a transformative developmental journey. Transformation develops over time through honest reflection, purposeful action and the practical application of learning across the full course experience.

Before and during the course, learners receive induction, clear instructions, important dates, advance guidance and reminders. Each learner is then expected to familiarise themselves with the platform, follow the instructions provided, manage their own progress and navigate to the appropriate learning activities and live events.

This approach reflects the principle of “Integrous Agency” at the heart of Positive Value Leadership: taking personal responsibility for one’s own development, acting purposefully and approaching the course with a “can-do” attitude and, ideally, an “it’s done” attitude.

An IOWL Calibre Catalyst™ is an experienced practitioner approved to lead the live developmental experience for a defined Positive Value Leadership™ pathway. Catalysts do not replace the independent learning or teach the Smartboard content back to learners. They use questioning, discussion, reflection and application to help learners test the learning against lived experience. Before pathway authorisation, a Catalyst must personally complete and pass the pathway at that level and then separately meet IOWL's Catalyst preparation and live-delivery approval requirements.

Many leadership courses focus primarily on capability and competency: what a leader knows, what they can do and how effectively they can perform.

Positive Value Leadership also develops calibre: the character, judgement, integrity and values that shape how, why and for whose benefit a leader uses their capability.

The course does not simply provide additional leadership techniques. It requires learners to examine their own values, decisions, conduct and impact through a structured journey of learning, reflection and practical application. The aim is to strengthen the inner foundation from which leadership decisions and actions arise.

IOWL therefore approaches effective leadership as the combination of calibre, capability and competency. Capability may enable a leader to achieve results, but calibre helps determine whether that capability is exercised with sound judgement, integrity, responsibility and appropriate regard for others.

Because calibre is not only developed but also formally assessed, eligible learners may be awarded Calibre Credits™. Candidates must complete the required learning engagement and meet the required standard in both the knowledge examination and the structured reflective question. The reflective question considers the quality, authenticity and depth of the learner’s reasoning and application; it is not a personality test.

Successful candidates may receive between 31 and 50 Calibre Credits™, awarded by the Global Institute for Calibre & Integrity™. These form part of the learner’s professional standing record and, together with the Statement of Professional Standing, contribute to their Passport of Probity™ record.

A Positive Value Leadership course is therefore not only about becoming a more capable leader. It is about developing - and evidencing - the calibre to use that capability responsibly, purposefully and with integrity.

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