Confident leadership skills and strategies for building resilient, high-performing creative teams.
CREW is pleased to announce that our first CLIMB Course, Leading for Influence & Impact is now open for applications.
CLIMB Courses offer targeted, flexible learning for entrepreneurs and SMEs across the creative digital ecosystem, focusing on the critical skills needed for market and business growth. They are a key part of CLIMB – Creative Leaders Innovating for Market & Business Growth, a wider programme of supports and tailored growth opportunities for high-potential digital creative businesses.
Stay tuned for details of more upcoming CLIMB Courses in the new year!
What is Leading for Influence & Impact?
Leading for Influence & Impact is for entrepreneurs and businesses interested in cultivating leadership skills and strategies for building resilient and high-performing teams in the creative industries. It is delivered in one full day session, focusing on self-awareness, leadership effectiveness and how to effectively collaborate with others to nurture a high-performing team.
Course Overview
Pre-Work:
- Insights Discovery eLearning (30 minutes): Participants complete the eLearning module to establish foundational knowledge of Insights Discovery and Colour Energies.
- Identify Gaps in your Network and / or Team: Consider what people, roles or relationships are missing in your network or team to help you realise your business outcomes. Have at least a vague idea of this coming to the workshop.
Insights Discovery is a practical and accessible tool that helps individuals deepen their self-awareness and understand their personal leadership style. Built around a simple four-colour model, it highlights individual strengths, blind spots and preferred ways of working. For entrepreneurs who are shaping their identity as leaders and considering the kind of team they need around them, Insights Discovery provides a common language for communication, collaboration and decision-making.
Leading for Influence & Impact (7 hours)
In this part of the course you’ll cover:
- Self-Awareness, Emotional Intelligence, and Perception: Introduce participants to key frameworks for understanding self and others.
- Colour Energies Overview: Brief review to reinforce learning from pre-work.
- Group Exercise, Exploring Opposite Colours: Interactive activity highlighting complementary strengths and perspectives.
- Profile Reveal and Review: Individual profiles shared with group discussion to identify personal strengths and potential blind spots.
- Insights Discovery Team Effectiveness Model: Explore the elements of Process, Focus, Climate, and Flow. Potential group exercise to apply the model in real team contexts.
- Defining High-Performance Teams: Brief discussion of key dimensions, stages of team development, the role of psychological safety and the power of teams.
- Personal Boardroom: Identifying gaps in the groups network and / or team and discuss strategies to remove gaps strategically.
Follow-up Online Group Mentorship (1 hour):
This guided session brings participants back together to review real progress in applying the tools and mindsets introduced during the workshop. The conversation surfaces practical wins, emerging challenges, and new insights that have developed over time, helping participants refine their leadership approach and maintain clarity on their next steps.
Key Dates
- Application deadline: 13 January 2026
- Course delivery date: 30 January 2026
- Online group mentorship:13 March 2026
Key Details
- Location: This course is primarily delivered in-person at CREW- Creative Enterprise West, ATU Galway City, Wellpark Road, H91 8K85.
- Facilitator: Katelyn Divilly
- Cost: €160
The course is being offered to the SME at 20% of the market rate (the full programme is valued at €800) with the remaining 80% supported by Enterprise Ireland Smart Region scheme. In order to avail of this discounted rate, all applicants are asked to confirm that they have the appropriate De Minimis balance to accept the support. More information on De Minimums State Aid can be found here: State Aid | Enterprise Ireland
How to apply
You can apply for the course by filling out an application form by 13 January 2026, which you can find here: https://crew.acceleratorapp.co/apply/program/leading-influence-impact
Please note that there are a limited number of spaces for this course.
CLIMB Courses are delivered by CREW as part of the CLIMB programme and are co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Northern and Western Regional Programme 2021–27.