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Management fundamentals

Strategy 101

Strategy is often viewed as complicated, but its core principles and processes are straightforward. This session will cut through the jargon and provide practical, easy-to-use tools and approaches that will help you clarify your aims, set priorities, and make confident, informed decisions in your NHS roles, both now and as you set out your team’s or organisation’s opportunities and future direction.

Date Monday, 29 June 2026 13:30 PM - 15:30 PM
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What you’ll learn

  • Vision, Mission, Objectives, and Values – understanding their purpose and how they guide strategic deployment
  • How to practically apply strategic and or policy deployment principles to set clear direction and align your team or organisation with key priorities.
  • Recognising and focusing on critical deliverables, also known as critical success factors.
  • Communicating direction clearly to build understanding and engagement, and the role of dialogue and generative images in inspiring change.
  • Importance of tactical flexibility and adaptability in strategic formulation, particularly in today’s complex, fast-changing NHS environment

Who is this webinar for?

This session is for NHS colleagues at all levels, from executives and senior leaders to managers and frontline staff. Whether you set strategy, deliver plans, or connect daily work to broader priorities, you’ll find relevant support here. The session covering practical ways to shape aims, objectives, and critical success factors, and explores cultural fit and evolution.

Lead facilitators

Mark Leyshon

An experienced commercial practitioner, Mark initially started his career in the Automotive industry within Supply Chain Management, and was actively involved in his organisations world class continuous improvement programme. He then moved on to a variety of senior, and executive commercial posts in the rail, energy and travel industries, where his experience includes acquisitions and a management buy out. At the turn of the Millennium Mark started his own Consultancy Company providing PFI support before broadening into a wide variety of improvement and change management assignments.

Jim Lusby

Jim has worked in and around the NHS for more than 30 years. His Board-level experience has been drawn from roles in several large Trusts, a Strategic Health Authority and in the NHS Trust Development Authority.  He also spent four years as a Senior Civil Servant, in national positions in the Department of Health and later as head of the health team in the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. Jim's experience makes him well-placed to advise on all aspects of organisational and system strategy and delivery.  Building relationships and shared priorities in complex operational and political environments has been a particular theme throughout much of his career.

What participants say

86%

of attendees agreed the presenters delivered the session effectively. .

“This was a good overview of strategy and has enabled me to better understand the fundamentals.”