Is this programme for me?
This is a unique programme combining the newest leadership research with the latest policy and understanding of our fast-moving health and care environment.
This programme is essential if you intend to step up and into the challenge with a clear sense of leadership purpose and plan of action to execute.
If you are looking for pragmatic application of theory and research and enjoy reflecting and learning with colleagues on the same journey, then this programme is for you.
What will I learn?
This four-part modular course aims to give you the space to learn and determine how to apply the new leadership skills required and to unlearn some of the unhelpful biases and blockers to collaboration, all the context of the unfolding current health and care policy environment.
The course will focus on the mindset - the values and attitudes needed for effective collaboration - and use the latest knowledge in neuroscience to understand why we behave as we do.
You will learn from guest speakers involved in various roles in the health and care system who will share with us their challenges and learning.
We reflect on current health and care policies and the impact of recent reforms on local developments.
There is a focus on:
- power dynamics
- reading the system
- surfacing and managing conflict
- better understanding and appreciation of different perspectives
- enhanced dialogue skills
- relationship building
- building a social identity
- individual and organisation resilience
Underpinning all of the above is the collaboration of the cohort itself. Cohorts are carefully selected to ensure we have sufficient difference at a senior level in the room. Space is made for reflection, challenge and co-creation of new ways of operating.
Who is this for?
This programme is for you if you are in a senior role in an ICS team, or place-based committee or a provider collaborative. You might also be a senior manager or a clinician working at an executive level in an NHS providers, local government and voluntary sector looking to work more collaboratively across organisational, sectoral and/or professional boundaries
Course Structure
You will have a telephone conversation with the programme director about three 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 be delivered over 7-9 months and comprises four modules. Each of these are a day and half long. There will be no more than 16 participants in each programme group.
Below is an indication of some of the topics we will cover:
Modules
You will have a telephone conversation with the programme director about three 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 seven months and comprises four modules – each will be approximately two days long. There will be no more than 16 participants in each programme group. Below is an indication of some of the topics we will cover.
Module one: defining you and your system - Exploring the different organisational interests and perspectives in your system
- Agreeing principles for working collaboratively
- Examining the nature of the ‘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 nature of the ‘dialogue’ and what you can do to shift stuck patterns of behaviour
Module two: working across boundaries - Developing a collaborative leadership mindset
- Enhancing your dialogue skills
- Identifying core system leadership capabilities
- Clarifying the shared purpose for working together across organisational and sectoral boundaries
- Collaboration –understanding the neuroscience and why it can be difficult to collaborate
- External speaker
- Developing a collaborative leadership mindset
- Enhancing your dialogue skills
- Identifying core system leadership capabilities
- Clarifying the shared purpose for working together across organisational and sectoral boundaries
- Collaboration –understanding the neuroscience and why it can be difficult to collaborate
- External speaker
Module three: power, politics and decision-making - Exploring the power dynamics in your inter-group or inter-organisational collaboration
- Exploring the power values in your ‘system’
- Navigating the political landscape
- Designing decision-making processes and holding ‘generative’ conversations to produce tangible change
- External speaker
- Exploring the power dynamics in your inter-group or inter-organisational collaboration
- Exploring the power values in your ‘system’
- Navigating the political landscape
- Designing decision-making processes and holding ‘generative’ conversations to produce tangible change
- External speaker
Module four: building and developing your individual and collective impact - Exploring different operating models you may be working in or across and how to maximise your impact
- Designing your own model of collaborative leadership
- Managing and surfacing conflict
- Developing organisational and system resilience
- External speaker
- Exploring different operating models you may be working in or across and how to maximise your impact
- Designing your own model of collaborative leadership
- Managing and surfacing conflict
- Developing organisational and system resilience
- External speaker
Programme team
Dr Nicola Walsh
Assistant Director of Leadership and Organisational Development
