Welcome to our latest Leadership Dispatch. Please grab a few minutes to review our new offers and consider how they can support your own development and the development of your team, organisation and system.

The team have been working hard to create a programme of virtual events through until December giving you the earliest opportunity to sign up and secure a place.  We have some exciting new additions to our Leadership Espresso series (short circa 90min workshops) focused on recovery, high impact leadership conversations and leading hybrid teams in addition to our popular offers on sustaining a good team culture, noticing burnout and building resilience.  We have also created a new Inclusion Leadership Espresso series with topics focusing on LGBTQ+ Identities and Mental Health,  Privilege, Minority Stress and Intersectionality and Trans Inclusion.  This is part of our critical work in creating compassionate inclusive cultures and will absolutely inform how we consider our work to reduce health inequalities.

We also have added some new dates to our Primary Care Masterclass series and have launched a new modular interactive masterclass series, Leading Transformation in 2021.  This masterclass series covers the key concepts, skills and mindsets needed to drive collaboration, partnership and heath and care improvement.

You will also find links to our coaching and mentoring and safe space offers and all of the offers available across The Leadership Academy.

We know how busy things are and hope that these flexible and accessible virtual offers will sustain, develop and support you and those you lead over the coming Autumn and early Winter.

Ali Jennings, Head of Leadership and Lifelong Learning – South East
NHS South East Leadership Academy

Regional Offers

Leadership Espressos: Supporting Our Leaders

The below sessions have been designed as standalone but can also be attended as a series.

Bringing a Team Back Together to Reset, Renew & Refocus

As we find our new normal and navigate to reset, renew and refocus after a challenging year, perhaps being redeployed or working on COVID-related projects, this leadership espresso will help you focus on re-engaging and empowering your teams, re-contracting and the fundamentals of a high performing team.

• 27 July 11:00 – 12:30 Find out more.

Sustaining a Good Team Culture

This session will focus on exploring how managers can continue to cultivate a good team culture. It has been developed to provide practical tips and tools for helping teams to process and explore their experiences in order to move forward positively together, including how to design and run a processing or time-out session with your team.

• 22 July 13:00 – 15:00 Find out more.
• 16 Sept. 10:00 – 12:00 Find out more.

Supporting Your People when Noticing Burnout

Do you suspect someone in your team is burning out? It can be hard to know what to do. This session is for staff who are concerned that their teams are working through times of extreme pressure. Individuals who want to know how to better understand their people in such circumstances and what they can do to support them effectively.

• 23 July 09:30 – 11:00 Find out more.
• 11 Aug. 09:30 – 11:00 Find out more.
• 7 Sept. 09:30 – 11:00 Find out more.

Giving Feedback and Having Great Conversations

These leadership espressos will explore feedback and talent management– what it is and what it isn’t, as well as what good looks like and what we should be aiming for, as leaders, when having these conversations.

• Talent Management: 11 Aug. 10:00 – 11:30 Find out more.
• Feedback: 19 Aug. 10:00 – 11:30 Find out more.

Conversations to Build Resilience

These are unprecedented times. We are juggling work and personal lives that are more disruptive, stressful, and ever changing with often increasing demands. This session is for anyone who wants to know how to manage sensitive conversations to support their teams and colleagues when working under pressure.

• 1 Sept. 09:30 – 11:00. Find out more.
• 6 Oct. 09:30 – 11:00. Find out more.

Making Every Conversation Count, 13 Sept. 10:00 – 12:00

Our teams are experiencing heightened levels of stress, pressure and ambiguity and can sometimes struggle to hold impactful and meaningful conversations, especially in the virtual world. This espresso will introduce Line Managers to the benefits and simple and practical techniques of coaching style conversations to better support and develop their staff.

Leading Hybrid Teams, 14 Sept. 10:00 – 11:30

The emerging extent of flexible and remote working is largely an uncharted territory in the NHS, in which there will be pitfalls we wish to avoid and also huge opportunities to improve the way we work together. This session provides protected ‘headspace’ and ‘thinking time’ for busy managers to consider thought-provoking ideas, share views, discuss issues with colleagues, reflect, learn and ask questions.

Supporting your people to return to work post-burnout, 29 Sept. 09:30 – 11:00

We have seen increasing levels of absences in teams due to illness/stress/anxiety/depression and burnout. The question is now how can we best support our staff to return to work? Explore factors that influence an individual’s ability to return to work, identify aspects of the job that could be adjusted and learn strategies to prevent a relapse.

Challenging Conversations, 30 Sept. 14:00 – 15:30

We will look at the key factors of challenging conversations, what makes them challenging, what holds us back and what can help us. You will be learning and sharing your examples and tips with others in similar situations to help support each other.

Leadership Espresso: The Art of Being Brilliant

This session is open to colleagues, clinical and non-clinical, those who have an interest in leadership and those in a leadership or management role across the South East region. Using cutting-edge research, without the big words and replacing them with simple, do-able principles that are applicable at work and home, this session will help you shine by reconnecting you with you.

• 20 Sept. 09:30 – 11:30 Find out more.
• 11 Oct. 12:00 – 14:00 Find out more.

Rising Stronger From Mental Health To Mental Wealth

This session is absolutely not about challenging you to up your game or work harder, it’s about nudging you to remember who you are at your best. That’s not only good for you. It creates positive ripples that impact on your family, your team and patients. Bouncing back is one thing, bouncing forward is quite another.

• 17 Nov. 9:30 – 11:30. Find out more.
• 24 Nov. 14:00 – 16:00. Find out more.

Leadership Espressos – Inclusion Series

This is a series of leadership espressos focusing on LGBTQ identities and mental health. These sessions will allow participants to gain insight and skills in assessing and addressing the needs of LGBTQ staff, including:

• LGBTQ Identities and Mental Health: 7 Oct. 9.30 – 11:00 Find out more.
• Privilege, Minority Stress and intersectionality: 14 Oct. 15:00 – 16.30. Find out more.
• Trans inclusion: 21 Oct. 12pm – 13:30. Find out more.

Primary Care Masterclasses

Primary Care Leadership Offer Co-Creation Session, 28 July 10:00 – 11:00

Calling Primary Care Leaders in the South East to help us co-create a leadership development offer that will equip you with the leadership skills that you need to effectively move through the next phases of learning from Covid, operational challenges and the changes to our ways of working that ICS and PCN development will continue to bring.

Challenging Conversations, 7 Oct. 11:00 – 12:30 (Primary Care only)

We will look at the key factors of challenging conversations, what makes them challenging, what holds us back and what can help us. You will be learning and sharing your examples and tips with others in similar situations to help support each other.

Facilitated Learning Sets for PCN Managers, 23 Sept. 13:00 – 16:30 (Hampshire & Isle of Wight only)

This session is an opportunity for you to come together in a facilitated learning space to enable you to explore the complex issues facing PCN Managers. You will have the opportunity to work with a small group of peers to build trust, explore ways forward and draw on practical advice.

Leading Transformation in 2021 Programme for System Leaders

Designed to support leaders to meet the specific challenges of leading transformation in 2021, this bitesize programme will introduce you to big ideas, equip you with practical tools and offer access to a peer learning and support community. With five solution-focused bitesize learning sessions, including ‘Making a positive difference without the resources, authority and clarity you need!‘, ‘Managing big personalities and their competing agendas‘ and ‘Practical tools for managing the work‘, this programme offers a flexible, blended approach of in-person sessions and self-directed application to develop your skills.

1:1 Support for Leaders

Safe Space Conversation Sessions for Senior Clinical Leaders

This offer will provide senior clinical leaders time out to talk, to gain support, learning and development through a crucial period of heightened demand on individuals and the healthcare services. Aimed at executive and deputy Medical and Nursing Directors, Heads of Midwifery and AHPs (and their deputies), Senior Clinical Leaders of teams or services, and clinical divisional directors or equivalent.

Bitesize Coaching – book your 45-minute session

An opportunity for those working on the frontline and/or responsible for teams who are currently working under pressure to work with an experienced coach. This one-off session can help you process experiences, develop coping skills or explore strategies to navigate challenging circumstances.

Graduate Management Training Scheme (GMTS)

This coming September will see our largest cohort of GMTS trainees starting in the SE region ever. Click here for further details on GMTS. In the lead up to September, we are running a number of programme and placement manager training events, see details below.

Calling all GMTS Alumni

We are currently reviewing our understanding of GMTS Alumni in the region, whether they trained in the South East, or moved to the area after completion, in order to understand how we can better support our trainees both during their time on GMTS as well as their early years post completion. If you are GMTS Alumni please complete a short survey which will take no more than a minute or two to complete.

Programme and Placement Manager Training events

These sessions are aimed at new and existing GMTS Programme and Placement Managers to provide insights to the Graduate Management Training Scheme, the journey of the trainee and the roles and expectations of the Programme and Placement Managers.

National and Partner Offers

Apprenticeships – NHS Leadership Academy Programmes

The NHS Leadership Academy are working with education providers to provide access to their leadership development programmes as part of apprenticeships, in line with the People Plan. The aim is to help widen access to leadership development whilst further enabling the health and social care sector to fully utilise the levy and apprenticeships for recruitment and development. Click here to see the types of already launched apprenticeships and how to find out more. Click here to view a recording of an information session about the NHS Level 3 Data Technician Apprenticeship.

Masterclass: Menopause in the workplace expert support and services 3rd August 2021, 12:00-13:00

Join us for an interactive session discussing why menopause support is relevant for people working in NHS organisations and how we can work together to provide support and maximise wellbeing at work.

NHS England upcoming virtual events

• Building a compassionate workplace, an online session with Headspace, 5 Aug. 12:00 – 13:00 – find out more.
• An Introduction to working with People & Communities, 11 Aug. 2021 1:00pm – 2:15pm – find out more.
• Talking Systems – Organisations as living systems, 2 Sept.16:00 – 17:00 – find out more.

For more virtual events please visit: NHS England and NHS Improvement Online Events

NHS Elect upcoming webinars

NHS Elect is a national membership organisation run by experienced NHS colleagues that provides development, coaching and support in a number of areas, including Leadership and Organisational Development.

South East Leadership Academy has entered into a strategic partnership with NHS Elect to increase the access to leadership development opportunities for NHS staff in the South East region. The events are free of charge and available to Organisations in the South East who hold an NHS Elect membership. To find out if your organisation holds a membership, please visit NHS Elect – Current members.

Current courses include:

• Systems thinking – 27 July
• Compassionate conversations – 11 Aug.
• Project management essentials – 29 July
• Measurement for improvement – 24 Aug. and more…

For more information about these webinars and a full list of development opportunities from NHS Elect please visit: NHS Elect – Online Courses or contact [email protected].

#ProjectM

Shaped by on-going feedback and conversations had with managers throughout the NHS – #ProjectM is a suite of resources, tools and guides to help our NHS managers lead through COVID-19 and beyond. A community of practice will provide a safe, collaborative space for colleagues to get peer-to-peer support, alongside our award-winning health and wellbeing offers.

#ProjectM Mentorship

In the spirit of support and collaboration #ProjectM mentorship has launched. This is mentorship but not as you know it! This means getting involved is quick and easy and doesn’t require registration. #ProjectM mentorship is based on harnessing social media (starting with Twitter) to enable the #ProjectM community to self-organise. This means you can share your skills and experience by letting the #ProjectM community know you are happy to be a mentor, or you would like to be mentored by adding a Twibbon to your Twitter profile picture.

Executive Suite

A comprehensive suite of supportive offers and resources for senior and executive leaders in health and care. They are designed to support you to remain a resilient leader, continue to thrive in your role, and set cultures that value the importance of health and wellbeing. The offers are open to all executive leaders across health and care in England. 

Spotlight on: Supporting senior leaders and board level post holders throughout the development and transition towards statutory Integrated Care Systems – Executive Suite Offers

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Contact

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For National and Partner Offers – Please follow the link in the offer you are interested in and contact organisers directly.