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The leadership development packages have been developed for senior leaders working in health and social care. They can be delivered to multi-professional groups or specific cohorts. As the word ‘senior’ means different things to different people, we use the following criteria as a start point to define the audience in mind:

1. Have direct reports
2. Have budget responsibility
3. Attend cross department/organisation meetings
4. Make choices and use their influence more broadly than solely within their department.

We offer the modules to cohort sizes of 8 (minimum number of attendees), 16 or 24.  During the course larger cohorts will break up into smaller syndicate groups of 8 members for small group work. 

Over the course of two days, you will develop a deeper insight into your own behaviours and the impact and influence you have on others as a leader.  With the benefit of your own reflections, feedback from peers and feedback from faculty, you will develop greater confidence in your strengths, and identify areas that you could develop your leadership further in order to have more impact.

Each module can be delivered either as:

• two-day face-to-face,
• two-day virtual online, or
• four half-days virtual online.

Course aim: To develop a deeper awareness of assumptions, behaviours and impact on others

In order to: Further develop the ability to influence others as a leader

Learning objectives:

• Understand the importance of developing awareness in order to be an effective leader of people.
• Understand the difference between content (what you work on) and process (how you work on it)
• Understand the dynamic demands of tasks, teams and individuals.
• Develop a deeper awareness of personal assumptions, behaviours and impact on others.
• Develop a deeper insight into how you can better manage assumptions, emotions and behaviours.

Synopsis:

This module explores fundamental ideas around leadership including what leadership is, the role of leaders within the context of leading in health and social care and the importance of leaders having awareness of themselves, others and the wider system within which they lead.

Through the course, individuals will develop a deeper insight into their own behaviours and the impact and influence they have on others as a leader. With the benefit of their own reflections, feedback from peers and feedback from faculty, they will develop greater confidence in their strengths, and identify areas that they could develop their leadership further in order to have more impact.

Course aim: To develop the understanding of working with complex problems and influencing in complex systems

In order to: Develop your ability to effectively lead and influence within the context of health and/or social care

Learning objectives:

• Understand the relationship between organisational culture, teams and leaders
• Understand the elements and conditions that can enable and develop high-performing teams
• Develop ability to lead better meetings
• Understand the importance of feedback in developing teams
• Develop greater understanding of decision-making processes.
• Develop a deeper awareness of how your personal traits impact or fail to impact on the performance of self and team

Synopsis:

This module will develop individuals’ awareness of the complexity of the health and social care systems they lead within.  It will explore the different types of problems they face as leaders and the different approaches required for working with them.

Through the course, leaders will develop a deeper understanding of the influence they currently have within their system or organisation.  While also further developing their ability to influence others.

Course aim: To develop the ability to influence and be informed by others

In order to: Be a more effective leader of teams

Learning objectives:

• Understand the relationship between organisational culture, teams and leaders.
• Understand the elements and conditions that can enable and develop high-performing teams.
• Develop ability to lead better meetings.
• Understand the importance of feedback in developing teams.
• Develop greater understanding of decision-making processes.
• Deeper awareness of how personal traits impact or fail to impact on the performance of self and team

Synopsis:

This module will develop individuals understanding of the relationship between organisational culture, teams and leaders and the elements and conditions that can enable and develop high-performing teams.

Through the course, leaders will develop a deeper understanding of how their personal traits and behaviours impact on the way they lead teams now. And further their thinking about how they can develop their team to be more effective.

Course aim: To develop the ability to lead change

In order to: Be a leader that makes things better!

Learning objectives:

• Understand the relationship between past change, the current state and implications for the move to a desired future state.
• Understand the nature of collaboration and its importance when working across cross-system boundaries.
• Understand the nature of communication and dialogue when working collaboratively.
• Develop the ability to lead change.

Synopsis:

This module will develop individuals understanding of the nature of change, the need for leadership and introduce them to different models for leading change.

Through the course, leaders will develop their ability to lead change in complex situations and collaborate more effectively with others.

Course aim: To develop the awareness of influence and resilience as a leader

In order to: Continue to further develop the reach and impact for good

Learning objectives:

• Develop a deeper awareness of your agency, choices and appropriate points of leadership intervention.
• Understand how you can continue to develop your influence as a leader and to influence others.
• Develop your ability to manage yourself under pressure and further develop your resilience.
• Develop your personal leadership strategy.
• Develop capacity to continue to develop as a leader.

Synopsis:

This module will explore the ethical and moral nature of leadership, continuing to develop influence as a leader and the need to maintain resilience as a leader and cope under the pressures of leadership.

Through the course, leaders will develop a deeper awareness of how to continue to develop influence and resilience as a leader and develop a personal leadership strategy for their ongoing development.

Face-to-face delivery

You will need to organise and arrange meeting rooms at your venue or an external venue for us to deliver the package.

Please refer to our “Meeting room requirements for delivering a Staff College Leadership programme” document for the specific detail on meeting room requirement, layout and resources.

Online delivery

We can host online delivery via MS Teams or Zoom.   We would arrange the online delivery using our licences. 

If you’re interested in a leadership package for your organisation, please get in touch with us and we can discuss what you’re looking for and agree next steps from there.

You can commission:

• Individual courses
• Combinations of courses
• The full set of five courses.

These can be commissioned to run just once, several times/year or on a rolling basis.

Dependent on what you are looking to commission, and its financial value, there are different procurement processes to go through. When we talk, we will work with you to understand which process is appropriate. We will provide a quote or formal proposal as required. We are also on a number of healthcare procurement frameworks.

Please get in touch with us at info@staffcollege.org to discuss your needs.

If you have questions about whether a leadership package might be right for your organisation, and your leaders or just want to find out more by talking to a real person, then please get in touch with us at info@staffcollege.org.

We are happy to make time to talk to you to discuss your needs.