Challenge your own beliefs about leadership and how it shapes your organisation.

Are you being as effective as you could be as a leader? Even the most senior executives sometimes need help to become top managers. This leadership training gives you the skills and confidence to be more flexible and resilient, to find your own style and values and challenge your deeply held beliefs about how to manage organisations effectively. This is a chance to meet personal development objectives and prepare for further career progression.

The programme made learning exciting again and gave me confidence. I was appointed chief executive a few months after.

Former programme participant

Programme outline

This training aims to give senior executives the skills and confidence necessary for effective leadership in the face of unparalleled demands in a constantly changing environment.

This training has played a major role in training many of today’s leading players in the health service and related sectors. Its key aim is to enhance the managerial capacity of your organisation. At the end of it, you will be equipped to make a much bigger contribution and be better prepared to meet the challenges of modernisation.

The programme will sharpen and deepen your understanding of how you and others behave, and why, and help you identify parallels in your own workplace.

You will already be a successful manager – but the experiences offered by this training programme will help you meet important personal development objectives, prepare you for significant career progression and, at the same time, challenge you to keep learning. This is a valuable opportunity to take time away from day-to-day pressure to reassess your career and personal priorities.

How you will learn

The training is structured into five modules, totalling 24 days over seven months. It takes place at the King’s Fund in London and residential facilities elsewhere in the UK.

This training uses group work in a different way from other programmes for senior executives. Instead of using groups for discussion or to learn about team working, we focus on consultancy skills, self-awareness and the psychology of organisations.

What the training covers

The Top Manager training programme tackles four key elements of successful leadership:

• self-management
• managing relationships with others
• managing groups and organisations
• managing change.

The course includes:

• leadership, management, consultancy and negotiation skills
• forming and working within groups
• being an effective change agent
• taking a strategic view
• emotional and political intelligence.

Benefits for you and your organisation

You will emerge from the Top Manager training programme with the skills and confidence to be effective in senior leadership roles. You will have challenged your own assumptions about effective organisational management, and defined and tested the values you bring to your work as a manager and leader.

The learning experience will help you:

• notice and reflect on how others see you, and learn how to use that understanding
• fill in gaps in your knowledge about old and new ideas, policies and practices
• develop an individual management style that matches your own and your organisation’s needs
• prepare to achieve significant career development.

The reflective nature of the programme will inspire and motivate you to do things differently. It will challenge you to:

• understand your feelings and prejudices about certain kinds of people, professions and sectors of health care
• learn to trust and gain the trust of others
• be more resilient and flexible
• be more prepared to innovate and take risks.

At the end of the Top Manager training programme you will also have developed a network of fellow professionals who can broaden and enhance your understanding of health and social care.

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