Introduction to Leadership and Management Series

This series of 5 workshops will introduce the key principles of leadership and management, so it’s the perfect programme if you’re starting out on your leadership career or need to learn the basics of being a leader.  You’ll learn how to support and develop team working and team culture. It will provide an excellent foundation upon which to begin building the skills of line management. 
It will specifically develop:
  • Self-awareness and an understanding of leadership style
  • The use of compassionate and inclusive leadership behaviours to ensure everyone in the team feels valued and able to contribute
  • Confidence to have courageous conversations, exploring how to give effective feedback and to build and manage workplace relationships
  • Skills of influencing and collaboration to enable communication with confidence across the integrated system of care
  • You can opt to attend all 5 workshops as a consecutive programme or choose to select the workshops which you see are of greatest benefit to the development of your knowledge, skills and behaviours.
  • Each session will be a 3-hour face to face workshop, running from either 9.30am -12.30pm or 1:30-4:30pm.
  • For all enquiries and dates contact soh-tr.leadership@nhs.net
​Workshop Title
​Introduction to Leadership and Management
Summary
​Exploring leadership and management, their characteristics, and differences; developing self-awareness and an understanding of a manager’s impact in creating workplace culture.
In this session you will:
  • develop a greater self-awareness through behavioural style testing, including Bolton and Bolton’s Behaviour Matrix and Goleman’s model of Emotional Intelligence and recognising own strengths, weaknesses and ‘blind spots’
  •  understand and evaluate the characteristics and differences of leadership and management
  • explore the impact that being a more self-aware leader has on creating workplace culture 
​Understanding your leadership style
​Understanding different leadership styles; examining your own natural style of leadership and the importance of flexibility to increase leadership effectiveness.
 In this session you will:
  • gain an understanding of different leadership styles
  • examine your own natural style of leadership and how being flexible in your approach increases leadership effectiveness explore situational leadership theory, including Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model
  • practice coaching techniques to support effective leadership and development of others
​What is Compassionate leadership?
Understanding compassionate leadership and its positive impacts. Embracing inclusive leadership and appreciating difference and the positive value it brings to a team.
 In this session you will:
  • be introduced to compassionate leadership, exploring the work of Professor Michael West and how to develop a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute
  • embrace inclusive leadership through an understanding of unconscious bias and an appreciation of diversity, referencing best practice and linking to the NHS People Promise
​Conducting courageous conversations
Exploring the skills that underpin effective communication to build confidence in having conversations that might have otherwise been avoided or seemed difficult; using techniques to adopt a solution-focused approach.
In this session you will:
  • understand why we need to hold courageous conversations
  • explore the skills that underpin effective communication to build confidence in having conversations that might have otherwise been avoided or seemed difficult. Understand the importance of, and how to actively listen
  • practise using effective questioning and feedback to adopt a solution-focused approach. Providing a balance of positive feedback to motivate and developmental feedback to improve 
Building collaborative teams and relationships
Relationship management and communication within the broader community of care. Working across silos to ensure interdepartmental cooperation. Role-modelling, facilitating and embedding psychological safety within teams so that individuals feel safe and can fully engage, contribute and openly express their ideas.
In this session you will:
  • learn skills to build and manage relationships through influencing, negotiating, and communicating within and beyond the immediate team
  • understand Covey’s Circles of Influence and Concern
  • explore the importance of mutual trust to develop interdepartmental collaboration and work effectively across silos within the broader community of care
  • consider how we create and sustain a climate of psychological safety and embed a sense of connection amongst our colleagues. Recognise the importance of role modelling appropriate behaviours and building them into team culture. Thereby ensuring that team members feel empowered to speak up openly about issues