North East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy

The Managers Toolbox: The Employee Lifecycle
2025-02-05 09:30 - 13:00 UTC | Virtual
Managers Toolbox: The Employee Lifecycle
‘Bringing out the Best in your team members at all stages of their career journey’
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.
The Employee Lifecycle will explore what is meant by the employee lifecycle, consider the differeces in stages and the correlation between engagement, wellbeing and performance. This session is for you if you are a current line manager in any role seeking to :-
• Understand the 7 stages of the employee lifecycle
• Appreciate the importance and benefits of actively managing every stage of the lifecycle
• Learn some key strategies for successfully managing each stage of the lifecycle
Please be aware that joining instructions for this event will be sent out seven days before the scheduled day.
If you register with the waiting list, please hold this date in your diary as last minute cancellations may happen. We’ll do our best to give as much notice as we can should a place become available.
Join waiting list here

Exploring Organisational Culture Series: Psychological Safety: A Non-Negotiable for a Healthcare Organisation
2025-02-12 12:00 - 13:30
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
Join us to consider your leadership and management responses can positively impact your own work area by exploring psychological safety, optimal culture and how can we build it in our teams

Understanding psychological safety from a research, historical and practical perspective.

What is our relationship with psychological safety?

Exploring the importance of psychological safety in healthcare environments

A culture of silence – what happens when things go wrong?

Manager as Coach: Giving & Receiving Feedback
2025-02-13 09:30 - 11:30
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.
All managers need to offer feedback to staff; many managers find this anxiety provoking. All staff will be given feedback; many will anticipate that this will be a negative experience. If you recognise this as a challenge in your role, join us to explore approaches that will help you to have effective feedback conversations which are engaging and outcomes focused
This session will explore the building blocks of a feedback conversation
• Structuring feedback to others
• Receiving feedback effectively
NB: This workshop is focused on the leadership skill set and is not positioned as coach training, or as coaching CPD. However, practicing coaches are welcome to attend.

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The Managers Toolbox: Effective Delegation
2025-02-20 09:30 - 12:00
Managers Toolbox: Effective Delegation
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.
Delegation is a powerful topic and tool. At a simple level it is about making sure tasks are done by the right people, however an enhanced understanding of the skills involved, and potential outcomes allows managers to release resources (own and others) and increase motivation and initiative within a team or organisation.
By attending this workshop participants will be able to:
1.Be more able to use delegation as a tool to support the management of their own time
& focus
2. Feel confident to improve their focus and in their ability to managers to manage time
effectively
3. Can ensure that delegated tasks can be completed safely and reliably
4. Develop an increased awareness of the value of delegation in developing initiative in
others
Please be aware that joining instructions for this event will be sent out seven days before the scheduled day.
If you register with the waiting list, please hold this date in your diary as last minute cancellations may happen. We’ll do our best to give as much notice as we can should a place become available.
