How will you benefit from this programme?
You will:
- gain knowledge of models and frameworks that support a more collaborative style of leadership
- identify how you individually can make a tangible difference as a collaborative leader across your local health and care system
- gain a better understanding of different organisational perspectives
- develop strategies to help you overcome local challenges that may be hindering a more collaborative way of working
- have the opportunity to participate in a national network with other NHS and social care leaders.
What will you do on this programme?
The programme will provide you with protected space to develop the skills and behaviours associated with a more collaborative style of leadership and to explore the style, culture and behaviours within your own organisation and your local health and care system.
You will have a telephone conversation with the programme director four to six weeks before the programme begins to identify your personal goals and ambitions. This information will be used to design the detailed content of the programme.
The programme will run over six months and comprises four modules – each will be one-and-a-half-days. Modules one and four will be held at The King’s Fund, modules two and three will be held via Zoom.
There will be a maximum of 16 participants.
Previous contributors have included:
- Rt Hon Jacqui Smith, Chair, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Sir Chris Ham, former Chief Executive, The King's Fund
- Baroness Dido Harding, Chair, NHS Improvement
- Mark Devlin, Chief Operating Officer, Unicef UK
Programme structure
Module one: defining you and the system - Exploring the different organisational interests and perspectives in your system
- Agreeing principles for working collaboratively
- Examining the local ‘dialogue’ and what you can do to shift stuck patterns of behaviour
- Exploring the different organisational interests and perspectives in your system
- Agreeing principles for working collaboratively
- Examining the local ‘dialogue’ and what you can do to shift stuck patterns of behaviour
Module two: system and place-based leadership - Developing a collaborative leadership mindset
- Enhancing your dialogue skills
- Identifying core leadership capabilities for working across ‘place’
- Clarifying the shared purpose for working together
- Developing a collaborative leadership mindset
- Enhancing your dialogue skills
- Identifying core leadership capabilities for working across ‘place’
- Clarifying the shared purpose for working together
Module three: power, politics and decision-making - Understanding the neuroscience behind our behaviour
- Exploring the difference between old power and new power
- Designing decision-making processes and holding ‘generative’ conversations to produce tangible change
- Creating conditions to support collaboration
- Understanding the neuroscience behind our behaviour
- Exploring the difference between old power and new power
- Designing decision-making processes and holding ‘generative’ conversations to produce tangible change
- Creating conditions to support collaboration
Module four: building and developing your collective impact - Co-ordinating and collaborating across organisational boundaries in the absence of stable structures
- Exploring different operating models you may be working in or across and how to maximise your impact to support greater collaboration
- Designing your own model of collaborative leadership
- Co-ordinating and collaborating across organisational boundaries in the absence of stable structures
- Exploring different operating models you may be working in or across and how to maximise your impact to support greater collaboration
- Designing your own model of collaborative leadership
What you will need to access this programme?
In order to access modules two and three online you will need access to a PC (laptop or desktop), microphone, webcam and a good quality broadband connection. Sessions will be delivered using MS Teams or Zoom so you will need to ensure you can access these on your computer. We also strongly recommend that you access the programme in a quiet environment.
Programme team
Nicola Walsh
Assistant Director of Leadership and Organisational Development
