Sustaining a Good Team Culture Cohort 1

About the session 

This is an interactive, inclusive and practical learning burst style session to support line managers and team leads in creating, sustaining and in some cases resetting their team culture. 

NHS Team Leaders, Managers and Clinical Leads shoulder an ever-increasing burden of responsibility as they are required to actively manage an increasing acute combination of competing factors facing their teams and the services they provide: financial constraints, backlog demands, workforce shortages, staff morale, over-reliance on regulation and a centrally-driven target culture. 

This is an opportunity for individuals to access practical, easy-to-apply methods and approaches which are designed to support their teams. Providing individuals with invaluable thinking time to consider their teams current culture baseline, and the strength of the team’s foundations combined with a focus on how to support teams to move forward. 

The approach 

• We create a psychologically safe space for people to learn and share experiences developing new and trusted connections.
• We are agile in our delivery building trust and connection. We are able to draw on extensive professional knowledge, expertise and psychological practice to ensure that the sessions can flex to meet needs that might present on the day.
• We offer in the moment coaching feedback, and small group working to help build confidence and ensure a participative session.
• We use a supportive facilitating style to encourage individuals to reflect and stretch their thinking and their abilities.
• We provide opportunity for practice and consideration of application – to ensure new approaches, tools, and techniques are explored before they leave the session

We hope participants leave the session feeling confident, able and willing to ground their learning in their current context and implementation. The focus is on the transfer of learning and its application, ensuring that all material covered in the ‘virtual’ classroom can be used the same day in the work environment. 

We run a ‘last in the room’ approach to ending each virtual learning session. Rebekah is always the last one to leave the session and invites people who may have specific issues, or team challenges, or simply didn’t feel able to speak out during the session to stay on the call. 

Who is this session for 

The NHS Leadership Academy provides leadership development for people of all backgrounds and experiences across health and care. 

The session will be virtual 

Other information: 

If you are unable to attend any of the sessions above please register via our Expression of Interest page, this will help us to understand the demand for our programmes and plan accordingly. You will also be notified when we release new dates for this workshop. 

If your circumstances change and you can no longer attend, please email [email protected] 

About the facilitator  

Rebekah is an experienced registered Chartered Occupational Psychologist, with more than 17 years’ experience working with individuals, teams and organisations.   

Rebekah is passionate about helping people realise their full potential and the relationship between thoughts, emotions and actions. With her team of practitioners Rebekah provides a range of learning opportunities that hone and harness the skills, expertise and abilities of people to meet the situations and challenges they face at work.  

Rebekah makes a difference through delivering evidence-based, bespoke applied learning that drives demonstrable, on-the-ground behaviour change and performance improvement. This is where she really has an impact, shaping effective and sustainable leadership, culture and organisational development.  

Rebekah started her career in the NHS. Working across primary and secondary care leading a variety of large-scale quality improvement and change programmes, prior to working as a Healthcare Management Consultant for 8 years with Arup. As a Principal Consultant, Rebekah developed and led the Healthcare Consulting Business within Arup working across all parts of the healthcare system.   

Working exclusively with health and care organisations Rebekah, is at the forefront of the provision of leadership, culture and team development for clinicians and managers in health and care settings across the country. She strives to challenge mindsets, build belief and support change through the use of psychology-based development.