Tag: Leadership Development

This workshop is part of our Complete Leadership Series, leading with resilience in challenging times, to help you target areas of development leaders and managers have identified as top priorities right now.

About the workshop

Trauma-Informed Leadership understands and appreciates the emotional scars that people may struggle with. These might be directly related to the pandemic, indirectly triggered by what has happened with Covid19, or may result from people’s wider life experiences. Trauma might include loss, grief, neglect, abuse, betrayal of trust, a sudden change in circumstances, pain or a sense of powerlessness.  

Approaching leadership with an understanding of trauma helps us see and treat others, and ourselves, with more empathy and compassion. It can also help protect against stress and burnout.  

This virtual workshop is not about diagnosing or psycho-analysing yourself or your colleagues. It is not about being a therapist in your leadership role. It is about creating a working environment which is supportive to people who have experienced trauma – and that may include you.  

This workshop will offer you: 

• an understanding of what trauma is and how it can be experienced in many different ways and from very diverse perspectives 
• a practical toolkit to help you prepare, protect and care for yourself as a leader in the demanding months ahead 
• a safe space to explore what compassionate leadership means in practice  
• practical ways to model and create psychological safety in your teams 

The workshop will take place on Zoom over 2.5 hours, with several breaks. 

You will be encouraged to consider thought-provoking ideas, share your views, discuss issues with colleagues, reflect on your own leadership, apply your learning to your own context and ask any questions you have.   

You will not be asked to talk about traumatic experiences you have had.  

Who is this session for: 

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

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]

The session will be delivered virtually via Zoom

About the facilitator 

The session will be co-facilitated by Dr Jeanne Hardacre and Georgia Twigg, who worked together as part of the Wellbeing Team at NHS Nightingale London. Jeanne is an independent practitioner in leadership, team development and workplace culture. Georgia is a mental health specialist occupational therapist and lecturer. She co-developed and delivered Psychological PPE training to several hundred staff at NHS Nightingale London.  

This workshop is part of our Complete Leadership Series, leading and influencing in teams and systems, to help you target areas of development leaders and managers have identified as top priorities right now.

About the workshop.

The need for a people-focused approach to leadership in the NHS has become vital in the recent turbulent times. Compassion and courage are two of the six NHS care values required by health and social care staff. This workshop will explore how they can make us effective leaders who focus on the need for a passionate commitment to do the ‘right things at the right time’ for service users. 

This engaging and interactive workshop, which will be split into two modules, will provide an important insight into what it means to lead with courage and compassion in the NHS. An interview with an expert guest speaker will outline why leading with courage and compassion is important in meeting the challenges of the current and future climate. A range of highly relevant case studies will be used, showing service users’ experiences and ethical dilemmas. These will provide a basis for facilitated group discussions on what is the ‘right thing’ and (importantly), how and when to do it to get successful and safe outcomes. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your values, your authenticity and how you demonstrate courage and compassion in your leadership role – along with how you transmit this through to your colleagues. 

What will be covered: 

• Identify what we mean by compassion, courage and the behaviours associated with them 
• Explore how leading with courage and compassion fits with the healthcare leadership context 
• Explore how moral and ethical dilemmas in the system impact on your leadership role and develop approaches to resolving them 
• Consider the link between patient pathway and the patient experience 
• Identify how mindset, style, and previous experience can influence an individuals’ approaches to leading with courage and compassion 

Dates and times: 

Session 1 14th February 2023 09:00 – 12:00

Session 2 1st March 2023 09:00 – 12:00

Who is this session for: 

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

This session is aimed at emerging leaders. 

Emerging leaders: For those in front-line and operational management roles looking to improve and enhance their leadership capability ​ 

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]

The session will be delivered virtually 

About the facilitator 

Impact Psychology for Business is a Manchester-based consultancy with over 29 years of experience in helping organisations develop and release the full potential of their people by applying the principles of occupational psychology to the world of work.  

Maria Moneva, Business Psychologist and Head of Assessment, Impact Consulting Psychologists Ltd.  

Maria is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS), having completed a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at University of Glasgow and MSc in Organisational Psychology at Alliance Manchester Business School. Prior to joining Impact Psychology for Business, she had built a successful career as a HR Adviser in Social Care, providing support and guidance on a wide variety of sensitive matters. Her passion for wellbeing and her deep understanding of the employee life cycle and the need for organisational governance and operational outcomes, enable her to strike a balance between employee engagement and business practices. She actively applies this approach to her work as a business psychologist, giving her a compassionate yet pragmatic view of the needs of the client. Maria also has extensive experience in personnel selection, having worked at the UK’s biggest specialised recruitment agency and is now the professional lead at Impact for senior level recruitment psychometrics.  

Juliette Yardley, Associate Senior Consultant 

With an academic background in psychology and over 25 years of experience within the field of applied positive psychology in the workplace, Juliette is an expert in exploring the ability of each individual to thrive and develop and to take positive control of choices, actions and behaviours. 

She is passionate about creating sustainable behavioural shifts amongst employees that build resilience, and in developing emotionally intelligent environments, enabling people to discover their signature strengths. 

Her delivery style is creative and high energy, stretching and challenging beliefs, attitudes and mindsets. 

Janice Clare, Associate Senior Consultant  

Janice is a Learning and Development consultant with Impact and has a wealth of experience across a variety of sectors. Having been employed within AstraZeneca, Janice has gained experience in sales, training and HR sector. Currently delivering coaching and developmental programmes virtually, supporting the NHS throughout the COVID 19 lockdown period, relating to resilience, resourcefulness and innovative ways of leading through ambiguity.  Janice has an ability to critically challenge and support leaders, enabling them to develop high levels of self-awareness and consider how they impact the culture of the organisations they are accountable to.  Janice has a strong track record and can work within organisations in a wide variety of roles, including observational assessment and feedback – linking to personal development and strategic succession planning. 

This workshop is part of our Complete Leadership Series, leading and influencing in teams and systems, to help you target areas of development leaders and managers have identified as top priorities right now.

About the workshop

Focussed on providing participants with an understanding of how to influence and lead when they lack formal authority or the feeling of power, to build participants confidence to understand the power and influence they have and arm them with practical tools to take back to their teams. 

What will be covered: 

This virtual workshop provides some protected ‘headspace’ and ‘thinking time’ to consider: 

• How can I grow my confidence to use my power and influence, even if I don’t have formal authority? 
• What are the differences between leading in a hierarchical context and influencing across teams and wider networks? 
• Which aspects of my work are best achieved through a conventional management approach and which aspects require a more networked approach to leadership? 
• How do I decide when a formal or more informal approach to influencing might work best? 
• What are my key challenges in influencing beyond my sphere of authority? 
• How do I apply this learning to my everyday work? 

Who is this session for: 

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

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]

The session will be delivered virtually

About the facilitator 

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr Jeanne Hardacre, Founding Director of Impact4Health, which is a specialist leadership, OD and culture change consultancy. Jeanne has 25 years of experience working alongside health and social care practitioners, clinicians, leaders and managers to develop behaviours and cultures which support high quality care 

This workshop is part of our Complete Leadership Series, leading with resilience in challenging times, to help you target areas of development leaders and managers have identified as top priorities right now.

About the workshop.

In healthcare, the challenges of providing increasing demands for service through the Covid-19 pandemic, the inevitable winter pressures, a rising mental health crisis, A&E capacity issues, staff sickness, budget shortfalls, remote working and increased public scrutiny are all coming together as a perfect VUCA storm. 

In these unchartered waters, there can be a tendency for a leader to delineate challenges amid complexity with an aim to selectively address only the most pressing issues and enable a semblance of control but in reality, the interdependency of all these external forces requires an inclusive team approach, collaborating on different perspectives to gain a greater understanding of the situation and prioritizing progress over perfection when taking action. 

In this 3½ hour workshop, we will constructively explore four models and their application with a view to gaining insights about your own situational leadership skills from a process-based and people-based view. We will identify ‘comfort zones’ and how systematic process-thinking as an approach can be useful to help move forward through situations of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. In sharing stories about your own journey, we will look at how expectations and perspectives shape our mindsets in the way we think and behave in challenges. By understanding our leadership ‘voices’, we can choose to adapt the way we communicate when faced with different ‘voices’ and get the best out of people as a change leader. Using these models back in the workplace, you, as a leader can support and nurture compassionate safe spaces for change within your own teams. 

Pre-Coursework: 

To do & to read: 5 Voices Assessment www.giant.tv/5voices/hq5v 

Please take the assessment. The results will come back to you. We shall discuss 5 Voices in the workshop as a concept, but not particular reports unless you wish to share your result. 

To watch: Simon Sinek on Understanding Empathy  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi86Nr9Mdms 

Who is this session for: 

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

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]

The session will be delivered virtually

About the facilitators

John Aspden has been a Facilitator, Executive Coach working with healthcare professionals for the past 10 years. John originally trained as a General Nurse, with experience as a senior nurse in Theatres and Intensive Care and as a Mental Health Nurse and with subsequent international sales and marketing roles in medical technology companies. He is a leadership facilitator on both the Rosalind Franklin and Mary Seacole Leadership Academy programmes and a coach and leadership facilitator with the Faculty of Medical Leadership & Management. John adds value by helping people to learn and develop on their ‘edge of comfort’, to stretch past what they thought was possible and not only to develop personally, but also to develop a passion to make a difference within the organisation as leaders. His areas of interest and expertise are around Change Management, Political Astuteness, Resilience, Team-Working and Diversity & Inclusion.

Vikram Millns brings a broad range of skills within business including leadership around strategic & commercial expertise, quality & continuous improvement, employee engagement, Inclusion, and diversity leadership. He brings industry excellence in customer and business development, systems and operations, service and product development, marketing and brand building. He has run extensive online programmes with audiences all over Europe, Middle East and Africa and at technology conferences. He has strong cross-cultural working experience and has lived and worked in India and the UK.

This workshop is part of our Complete Leadership Series, leading inclusively and compassionately, to help you target areas of development leaders and managers have identified as top priorities right now.

About the workshop

Supporting growth through adversity is a component part of the Complete Leadership Series aimed at leaders who are new to line management or in the first year or two in a line management role. Participants are welcomed from clinical or non-clinical backgrounds to this 2-Hour online session which will: 

• Explore the psychology of now and the accumulative impact of sustained pressure and stretch on individuals, teams and organisations
• Consider positive growth through adversity models and how we frame can our experiences and learning for ourselves and others as we move forward in our leadership.
• Understand at the importance of psychological transition and the role of confidence, control and connection in 

This session is grounded in the psychology of how people think, feel and behave. It will provide you will valuable insights and helpful tools to support you in your leadership as you continue to enhance your own self-awareness and your awareness of others. 

This session will be delivered virtually. 

Who is this session for: 

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

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]

The session will be delivered virtually

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.