Are you interested in understanding more about how power operates in organisations? Do you want to make more effective interventions? If so, our Transformational Leadership Programme is for you. This new training programme, commissioned by the NHS Institute’s Breaking Through initiative, will enhance your personal insight, political and emotional intelligence and ability to make powerful, creative interventions. You will emerge well-equipped to play a leadership role in realising the potential of a diverse NHS workforce.

There is a growing recognition that the make-up of the NHS workforce should reflect the diversity of the communities that it serves. Although up to 30 per cent of NHS employees working at lower grades come from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, this figure drops to 10 per cent at middle management level and less than 1 per cent at chief executive level.

This training, provided by the King’s Fund in partnership with the NHS Institute’s Breaking Through Programme, aims to increase the diversity of the NHS workforce at director and chief executive level. In particular, it seeks to equip participants with the self-belief, personal impact and political and emotional awareness necessary for them to operate as ‘transformational leaders’ within their organisations, able to empower themselves and others to maximise their potential.

How you will learn

The training is structured into five weeks spread out over four months, and takes place in four different locations.

Upon joining the programme, you will become part of a learning community. In this community, you will be challenged to participate in an innovative, experiential approach to learning that engages your emotions and imagination as well as your intellect, thereby increasing your capacity to learn from the challenges, tensions and problems that you face at work.

Both progressive and evidence-based, the learning methods used are tailored specifically to meet the needs of professionals who are implementing the change agenda in the public sector. The methods will:

• strengthen your ability to make sense of intractable and complex situations in order to find creative ways forward
• encourage you to look at how your assumptions help or hinder your performance
• hone your ability to recognise and work with diversity and conflict in your organisation
• help you to understand, and change, the effects of your behaviour on others.

You will design your own unique learning contract and adapt it as your insight increases. We will help you to create individual work-based experiments between each module to integrate your learning back into your work and life as a whole.

Rather than conventional teaching, you will engage in exhilarating experiences to discover your potential to change yourself and change others, there and then. This process is supported by the structure of the training, which is designed to direct your learning along an increasingly sophisticated trajectory. The result is a sequence of highly personalised learning experiences that become progressively deeper and more powerful as the programme unfolds. Overall, the training builds on the developments of the NHS Institute’s Breaking Through Programme, supporting the progression of black and minority ethnic staff in senior leadership roles.

Benefits for you and your organisation

You will emerge from this training programme with:

• increased confidence and a greater sense of their individual authority
• deeper insight into their personal effectiveness and how they can improve it
• better understanding of power dynamics and discrimination at an individual and corporate level
• increased understanding of, and ability to manage, theirs and others’ prejudices and actions
• increased understanding of the cultural and structural factors inhibiting the progression of BME staff and an enhanced ability to influence those structures positively
• a network of relationships committed to taking and supporting transformational action focussed on achieving greater equity in the NHS
• a strengthened ability to make sense of intractable and complex situations in order to find creative ways forward
• an ability to recognise and work with diversity and conflict in NHS organisations – enriched and informed with appreciative strategies that build upon the best that has been achieved
• vision and strategies for achieving greater effectiveness of services.

Price

Dates

• Frequently asked questions about the programme (19kb)