Leadership development

We have helped develop thousands of leaders across the NHS, including clinical and non-clinical staff.

Leadership development programmes

In addition to the standalone leadership workshops that are shown here, our team also deliver integrated development programmes.

A range of key topics

We will work with you to bring together the topics you need to achieve your leadership development goals with us.

Delivered at regular intervals

We usually deliver our programmes to a single leadership group over a number of months, allowing for practice inbetween.

Online and in person

We are happy to deliver socially distanced sessions in person, or to provide virtual sessions alongside pre and post work.

Core leadership topics

Our most popular leadership topics are shown below. We can also deliver a range of additional topics in order to meet your exact needs.

Leadership style

Delegates will explore their own leadership style, as well as how to vary it to reflect the requirements of team and task.

Coaching skills

Delegates will be introduced to the importance of applying the correct leadership style in relation to task and individual capability.

High-performing teams

The session provides delegates with a clear evidence-based framework for assessing and improving team effectiveness.

Conflict fundamentals

Participants will learn a framework to help them manage conflict constructively, as well as practical strategies.

Resilience

The session provides delegates with an overview of the science, theory and practice of psychological resilience.

Compassion in leadership

Participants will consider what it is to lead with compassion, both for self and others, and the evidence-based benefits.

Leading change

Delegates will learn about commonly used change management theories and practice key techniques.

Effective negotiation

Participants will develop an understanding of different negotiation stances and learn how to plan effectively.

Our approach to designing leadership development programmes is based on the principle of co-creating content and delivery methods based on organisational priorities; the sponsor’s objectives as well as the experience of the target audience and their managers.

Online co-design conversations allow us to engage large numbers of staff and while they often confirm the views of the programme sponsors about development priorities there are always valuable pointers about how we can help transfer learning into the workplace and the fact that staff are engaged in discussion at an early stage generates enthusiasm and maximises uptake.

Through discussion with our members we have developed three key ways to deliver development sessions online.

1. Standalone drop-in sessions

These hour-long online sessions are supported by slides, video clips and questions for facilitators and lend themselves well to a range of core topics.

2. Standalone sessions with pre-work and follow-up

Our standalone sessions can be accompanied by pre-work and follow-up activities to give greater detail and depth of understanding of the topic.

3. Integrated workshop programmes

In this approach, we would deliver a series of virtual workshops to a single leadership group and each session in the programme would include pre-work and follow up activities.

“I’ve had some very positive feedback following the sessions you have run for us recently. The “pre-manager” cohort didn’t want the session to end! Thank you very much for doing this and for being so flexible.”

Gary Waltham Deputy Director of Operations Health Education England

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Find out more about leadership support

To find out more about our leadership development programmes, please contact Jim Timpson, our Leadership and OD workstream lead.

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