May 2025 News Bulletin
Please see our latest news and events below:
Leading Together: Opportunity to Become a Mary Seacole Local Facilitator
We are looking to expand our team of Mary Seacole Local Facilitators to help deliver the Mary Seacole Local Programme—designed specifically for first-time leaders, providing them with essential skills in leadership and management
What’s involved in being a facilitator?
As a Mary Seacole Local Facilitator, you will:
- Deliver workshops using a comprehensive facilitator guide and materials
- Support delegates with online learning
- Draw on your experience in group facilitation to guide participants
Interested in applying?
Please complete an application form via MS Forms https://forms.office.com/e/NyRRpnHKF9
For more information or for any questions, please contact: Claire Carrick, [email protected]
Applications now open – Introduction to Leadership and Management – Cohort 6
Our Introduction to Leadership and Management Programme is designed to build your confidence and capability as a leader, whether you’re new to management or looking to strengthen your foundational skills.
This programme has proven to be incredibly popular; we’ve recently delivered three cohorts and received fantastic feedback from participants.
What to Expect:
This interactive programme blends practical tools with leadership theory, all within a supportive peer-learning environment. You’ll explore key leadership techniques and apply them directly to your day-to-day role. To help reinforce your learning, a few short tasks will be set between sessions.
Who Should Join:
Aspiring managers or those in their first year of a management role — from both clinical and non-clinical backgrounds, and across all pay bands.
Interested in applying?
Please complete an application form via MS Forms https://forms.office.com/e/VSmqFuat2v
Please note: If you have applied previously, you will need to reapply to be considered for Cohort 6.
For more information or for any questions, please contact: Claire Carrick, [email protected]
Coaching Café 2025 – Exploring Our Humanity as Coaches
We’re excited to announce that the dates for our 2025 Coaching Cafés are being released soon!
These virtual gatherings are designed to create a welcoming space where coaches can connect, share learning and resources, and inspire and support one another.
This year, we’ll be focusing on a powerful and timely theme: our humanity as coaches in a world increasingly shaped by AI. As David Clutterbuck reflects in the foreword to The Human Behind the Coach, “one of the things that distinguishes a human coach from an artificially intelligent (AI) robot is our humanity.”
Inspired by Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli’s 2023 book, we’ll explore how great coaches transform themselves first—and how this transformation deepens the impact of their work. Each Café will be a stand-alone session, yet together they’ll build on the core question: What contributes to our humanity as coaches?
We have released the 21st July – Theme 1. Creating a Coaching Container. Join us as we revisit foundational coaching skills and reflect on what makes our presence truly human – Book your place here . Hold dates: 11/09/2025 19/11/2025 16/01/2026 09/03/2026 (2:00-4:00pm)
For more information or for any questions, please contact: Claire Carrick, [email protected]
Upcoming Events
Systems Leadership Offers:
Leading Together: Creating Solutions through System Leadership
Leading Together: Creating Solutions through System Leadership is a series of five short stand-alone masterclasses designed for those whose work involves collaboration across team, organisation or system boundaries.
Leadership Offers
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
Coaching & Mentoring Offers
Manager 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.
Manager as Coach Giving and Receiving Feedback
Manager as Coach – Teams and Teaming in Turbulent Times
Career and Interview Skills Workshops
These 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
Career & Interview Skills Coaching – CPD for Accredited Coaches
Designed for accredited coaches to build skills around career and interview skills coaching. The workshop will build the coaching skill set around supporting career planning, interview skills and interview preparation.
Creative Models to GROW Clients and Coaches
Sessions are for internal accredited coaches offering a framework to help support coaches use of models like GROW and other creative ways to explore challenges and successes.
Coaching Clients During Change and Uncertainty
Sessions are for internal coaches offering a framework to help support clients and coaches when working within complex organisational contexts and high levels of change and uncertainty.