Develop your full potential as a manager and prepare to face future leadership challenges.

This is a time of unprecedented turbulence that heralds an era of continuous change for the NHS and social care organisations. Through these rough waters leaders must navigate complex political and emotional situations with skill and wisdom. Our Leadership for Senior Managers training programme is designed to equip you with the confidence, insights and practical skills to make the most of your gifts and potential as a leader, and to meet these challenges robustly and creatively.

It was a life-enhancing process. My success must in part be attributed to the programme.

Head of acute trust midwifery and women’s services

Programme outline

Leadership for Senior Managers builds on the King's Fund's internationally acclaimed Senior Manager Programme to meet current needs.

The content of this leadership training is intellectually challenging and unconventional and will help you find creative solutions to problems. You will discover new ways to manage change in your organisation and prepare to face the challenges of the modernisation agenda.

The focus is on self-awareness, helping you to discover previously unknown inner resources that enhance your capacity to lead others.

How you will learn

Leadership for Senior Managers is structured in four week-long modules, spread over several months, enabling you to take your learning into the workplace and see immediate results during the course of the training.

You will become part of a temporary learning community offering you the opportunity to learn and develop through experience.

The training offers the chance to apply your consultancy skills to the issues faced by a specially selected NHS trust. Group and individual tasks will encourage inner reflection and also take you outside your current experience to unlock your resourcefulness and creativity. Much of the programme is residential, with sessions at the King’s Fund in London to connect you with key players in today’s health service.

Group work provides an opportunity to learn more about how you influence and motivate others. The groups are designed to mirror your real-life experiences in public sector organisations. You will support, challenge and learn from other managers, developing a high level of trust and mutual respect.

You will have the opportunity to work on your own issues in one-to-one sessions with the programme director.

We also offer you up to six hours of executive coaching during the six months following the training. This will help ensure you meet the development goals you’ve identified for yourself and that what you’ve learned is embedded in the way you work.

What the training covers

You will explore a variety of practical situations that commonly occur in health care organisations. Group work will help you discover how issues such as diversity, power, envy, authority and affiliation can intrude on service delivery.

Key topics include:

• partnership working and team building
• conflict management, negotiation and problem-solving
• using creativity and imagination at work
• designing and implementing change.

Benefits for you and your organisation

By the end of the training you will be more confident and resilient, with a greater understanding of your own behaviour and its effect on others.

You will emerge with:

• the ability to use reflection as a way of working smarter – not harder
• increased emotional and political literacy and intelligence
• greater ability to tolerate the uncertainties of continuous change and still make clear decisions
• an understanding of how your own assumptions help or hinder how you perform.

The training will help you increase your contribution to your organisation, and make sustainable changes to your own and other people’s behaviour. You will:

• have greater understanding of organisational problems
• be a more supportive and self-aware manager
• be able to introduce new ideas and challenge old regimes
• cope more positively with crisis management decisions.

Working in groups during the course will help you build effective networks, outside your own organisation, with other senior managers who can support you during your further development.

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