January 2025 News Bulletin

Please see our latest news and events below:

Applications Now Open: Coaching for Improvement Programme – Cohort 7

This programme has been designed for colleagues working in roles and projects which involve Quality Improvement (QI), with a focus upon developing participant’s leadership effectiveness for QI through the application of a coaching approach.

Features and benefits to participants

• The opportunity to work with colleagues from across organisations to share learning
• The opportunity to gain key skills around the application of coaching approaches to support staff engagement within change initiatives
• Increased awareness and understanding of the impact of group dynamics within change processes
• Increased understanding of the challenges within establishing and maintaining change
• Increased awareness of their personal response and impact (use of self)

Who Should Apply?

This programme is aimed at health and care staff from all professional backgrounds within the North East & Yorkshire Region working within a healthcare setting closely involved within change processes.

Please visit our website for more information and how to apply.

Leading and Managing in the Multigenerational Workspace Programme – Application Closing 14th February 2025

For the first time in history, many teams have 5 generations in their workforce. This brand-new programme is designed to consider the benefits and challenges for managers and leaders of multi-generational teams.

Working with many different expectations, perspectives and preferences means that leaders need to be equipped with the abilities to attract, recruit, inspire, influence and retain people of all ages working in different workspaces with different preferences.

The programme will be a suite of 3 half-day focused sessions with complementary content. For more information and to apply, please visit our news page: Leading and Managing in the Multigenerational Workspace Programme – Cohort 3

Becoming a Mentor Programme Cohort 4 – Application Closing 9th March 2025

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for our ‘Becoming a Mentor’ programme.

This programme will offer a non-accredited route to developing enhanced skills within mentoring. Participants will be required to identify a mentee to work with throughout the programme to enable the transfer of theory to lived experience.

Features and benefits to participants

The opportunity to work with colleagues from across organisations to share learning
The opportunity to gain key skills around the use of mentoring to support staff development
Increased awareness and understanding of the impact of active listening and impactful questions
Increased awareness of inter-personal responses and impact upon others

Cohort 4 Workshop Dates

Workshop 1 – 30.04.25
Workshop 2 – 21.05.25
Workshop 3 – 18.06.25

Please visit our website for more information and how to apply

Upcoming Events

Winter Health and Wellbeing Support Package:

The NHS Staff survey has identified that our staff are experiencing fatigue and burn out. Adding in the extra pressures of winter and all its demands; how can people in leadership positions support themselves and their staff ?

This series of standalone lunchtime workshops will assist you with your winter pressures by giving you time and space to think about your position, your team and how you can introduce some practical tools to promote wellbeing.

Winter Support: Health and Wellbeing Cafés

Join us for the Wellbeing Cafe to explore simple, practical strategies to use day to day to contribute to your own well being and to share with your team. Try out some tools with others, and consider how you can add some self care into your daily routine.

Stress Awareness: Self-Care and Building Personal Resilience 

In this workshop we will explore how you can create a simple self-care plan to promote your own self compassion: you will leave the workshop with:

• Practical tools that you can sprinkle into your day from waking up to going to sleep.
• A personal action plan you can commit to, improving your own wellbeing which will enhance your work.

Manger as Coach

Manager as Coach (MAC) is a leadership programme consisting of 3 linked workshops. These can be accessed as a complete series, or in isolation, depending on your own learning needs. The aim of MAC is to support development of a coaching approach when working with individuals, or with the whole team. The programme is aimed at managers at all levels and roles, and those aspiring to their first management role.

Manger as Coach Giving and Receiving Feedback

Manager as Coach – Teams and Teaming in Turbulent Times

Manager as Coach – Everyday Coaching Conversations

Team Working in Times of Change

Our region has and is still facing a number of changes across the organisations, team development after change is essential for fostering resilient, cohesive and high performing work force that can navigate new challenges. We have designed mini series of workshops that will support you through change

Along side the mini series workshops we are also offering group coaching for colleagues who have joined a new team – application is required and (you must be able to commit to all three dates advertised in Teams in Change to be considered for group coaching.)

Exploring Organisational Culture Series:

Organisational culture can be defined as the values, beliefs, attitudes, systems, and rules that boundary and influence behaviours and responses within an organization. The culture reflects how staff, customers and stakeholders experience an organisation and the services offered. 

The NHS People Promise establishes the vision of how the NHS can feel for all of its staff, and making this a reality requires equal focus on “how are we doing doing” and “what are we doing”.  

“We want our culture to be positive, compassionate, and inclusive – and we all have our part to play” NHS People Promise 

Nursing & Midwifery Career Development Workshops

These workshops are offered to support Band 5/6 nurses and midwives working across the region.

This workshop will focus on exploring your personal career journey, preparing for interview and feeling able to bring your “best self”. Join us for an opportunity to connect with peers from across the region

Healthcare Leadership Model (HLM) 360 CPD: Solutions Focused Feedback

This session will focus on exploring the use of tools and techniques to enable supportive challenge during a 360 feedback; these skills would also be applicable to those who support staff with annual appraisal or other performance focused conversations.

Managers Toolbox: Self Management

The Managers Toolbox offers a series of sessions with the aim of strengthening and developing skills and awareness around managing people, processes and problem solving. These workshops are open to staff holding a line management role, which has opportunities for cross boundary working.

Managers Toolbox: The Accidental Project Manager

This workshop will give an opportunity to explore the essential skills for those leading projects as part of their wider job role.