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Leadership - Managing teams, an MOT for your team

All the research tells us that building a strong team is fundamental, both to delivering your agreed objectives and creating a workplace where people can thrive and do their best work. We’ll share some models and some tips for assessing your team working and provide a structure for creating an action plan to build and sustain a high performing team. 

Date Wednesday, 03 September 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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What you'll learn

  • Why team work is important
  • What the research tells us about the fundamentals of team structures and how you can adopt these in your workplace
  • The importance of behaviours and the foundational role of trust and building psychological safety
  • Some tips for next steps
  • Time for Q&As

Who is this webinar for?

  • NHS staff who want to improve how their team works together
  • Team leaders and managers looking to build and sustain high-performing teams
  • Individuals interested in creating a positive and supportive team environment
  • Staff who want to understand how trust, behaviour, and structure affect team success
  • Anyone looking for practical tips and models to boost team effectiveness

Lead facilitators

Leanne Saddler

Leanne has worked in healthcare settings across the NHS in England, Wales and internationally. An Alumna of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, she has a Masters (MSc) in Health & Public Leadership. She is an MBTI Practitioner and an EMCC Global accredited Coach.

As an operational manager, she has worked largely with challenged services and teams; leading turnaround and improvements. Leanne led her teams at her Trust in London through the Covid-19 pandemic, whilst also delivering significant improvements in staff morale, sickness absence and retention and a Trust wide digital transformation programme. Leanne was the Trust’s operational lead for the Covid-19 Vaccine Programme and SRO for SW London Mortality Management.

She completed a Global Health Research Fellowship in London; a QI Leadership Fellowship in South Africa, working with leaders including their Health Minister to improve clinical leadership development across the Country; and is currently the Partnership Lead for an HEE programme in Africa.

Caroline Dove

Caroline has been CEO of NHS Elect since 2003, building a team of amazing people to provide high quality, in-house support to healthcare organisations across the country, and developing leaders to enable them to deliver improved services. Caroline joined the NHS on the National Management Training Scheme and has spent her entire career working as a leader in the NHS. She worked mainly in acute hospitals in operational and strategic management, including as an Executive Director at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Caroline has a passion for supporting NHS staff in delivering better care for our patients. In the 1990s she led the operational development of the UK's first treatment centre and has supported leaders for over 20 years in learning, developing and mentoring.

What participants say

92%

of people were satisfied with this session

“ It was good to learn about the research and science behind the behaviours and it was a great reminder of how one person's behaviour can influence a team. ”