August 2025 News Bulletin
Please see our latest news and events below:
Supporting your Development
At NEYLA, we’re passionate about helping NHS leaders and managers grow, so together we can continue improving health services for patients and communities across the North East and Yorkshire. Through our programmes, masterclasses, and workshops, we provide opportunities to build skills, share knowledge, and explore the real impact of leadership and management approaches.
We know how challenging it can be to prioritise your own development in the midst of busy working days. That’s why we’re making it easier for you to find the opportunities that matter most. The new Leadership & Management Framework is nearly complete, and soon you’ll see career stage descriptors included on our Events pages. This means you’ll be able to quickly identify which workshops and sessions are most relevant to your current stage — helping you make the most of your time and focus on the development that will benefit you most.
To view the stage descriptors please visit our website news page here
Applications Now Open: Mary Seacole Local Programme
Are you a first-time or emerging leader looking to grow your leadership skills?
The Mary Seacole Local Programme is a six-month leadership development programme, co-designed with global experts and delivered by experienced facilitators.
Through a blend of structured online learning (approx. 100 hours) and six interactive half-day virtual workshops, you’ll develop the essential skills to lead with confidence and impact.
As this is a competitive process with only limited places available, we strongly recommend using the full word count to provide detailed responses. Due to high demand and limited spaces, we may close applications early once capacity is reached.
Applicants must provide line manager sponsorship and confirm funding approval (if applicable)
Please visit our website news page for more info and how to apply here
System Collaborative Programme
Delivering the transformation of services described in Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan requires collaborative leadership across organisational boundaries.
The System Collaborative Programme is designed for teams striving to improve population health and inequalities by working across organisational boundaries and helps individuals to develop the collaborative leadership skills needed to tackle challenges, build trust, and deliver better health outcomes for their patients and communities.
In terms of impact, completion of the programme has enabled past participants to successfully progress system-wide projects while also increasing their personal leadership effectiveness:
Who should apply?
Your collaborative can be multidisciplinary, cross-organisational, or cross-agency, and can be comprised of a number of people, or may just start with you as an individual, with a view to bringing others in as you progress. The key requirement is that you are working to lead initiatives that improve health outcomes for your patients, population and community
Please visit our website news page for more info and how to apply here
Future-Fit Leadership: Adaptive Leadership Mindset
Tuesday 07 October 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
We know that leadership is not about us having all the answer it’s how we create the confidence, agility and empowerment to enable our teams to adapt and grow. Adaptive leaders go beyond traditional models and seek to build and maintain trust, create flexibility and innovate to the opportunities and challenges that emerge.
In this webinar, we’ll explore how NHS leaders can strengthen their adaptive mindset learning to spot the difference between:
- Technical problems, which call for expertise and established solutions, and
- Adaptive challenges, which require experimentation, collaboration, and new ways of thinking.
What We’ll Explore
- Understand the key traits that set adaptive leaders apart from traditional leaders.
- Learn to identify and respond effectively to technical problems versus adaptive challenges.
- Develop practical techniques to empower and support teams through uncertainty.
Visit our website to find out more about the Future-Fit Leadership series.
Can’t wait for the session? Learn about Five steps to harness adaptive leadership in turbulent times
New Events
Supervision Cafe
The Supervision Café offers accredited coaches an opportunity to engage in group supervision. In this setting, coaches can collectively address current challenges in their practice. The format is informal, with facilitated supervision.
Managers Toolbox
The Managers’ Toolbox is a series of practical sessions tailored for managers with at least 12 months’ experience in role – particularly those leading teams while balancing demands from across the organisation.
These new workshops focus on real-world challenges, offering tools to build high-performing teams, sustain engagement, and lead more effective meetings and more.
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.
Join us to gain insight and skills into how you can give and receive feedback to support appraisal, talent enablement conversations etc.
Leading Together: Creating Solutions through System Leadership.
This series consists of five concise, stand-alone masterclasses, tailored for individuals whose work involves collaboration across teams, organisations, or system boundaries. The sessions are designed to help leaders strengthen their understanding of system leadership and systems thinking, foster culture and vision within a system, and enhance their ability to work collaboratively at place and system level to improve services and population health within their area.