July 2025 News Bulletin
Please see our latest news and events below:
The NHS 10 Year Plan Demands Collaborative Leadership – Are You Ready?
Deadline Extended: System Collaborative Programme
Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan calls for a fundamental reimagining of healthcare delivery. But transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. It requires collaborative leadership across organisational boundaries – exactly what the System Collaborative Programme delivers.
The 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 communities.
Who should apply?
Your collaborative can be multidisciplinary, cross-organisational, or cross-agency. The key requirement is that your team is working to lead initiatives that improve health outcomes for your patients, population and community. Examples include:
- Multi-Agency Project Teams working on neighbourhood health services
- Digital Transformation Collaboratives implementing AI and technology solutions
- Population Health Teams developing preventative care approaches
- Transformation teams creating new service delivery models
The deadline for applications has been extended to Friday 1 August, find out more here: System Collaborative Programme – North East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy
Introducing Future-Fit Leadership
The NHS 10 Year Plan represents a radical shift in the way services are delivered, and in order to respond to the three shifts (hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention) leaders need to embrace new possibilities, skills and technology.
Future-Fit Leadershipis a series of six short stand-alone masterclasses designed to inspire, share best practice and create positive thinking around the possibilities for the future. Topics include career agility, adaptive leadership, AI and psychological maturity, and each session is designed as micro-learning bursts to fuel participates with ideas for action with themselves and their teams.
Visit our information pack to find out more, and book your place.
Future-Fit Leadership: Career Agility in the NHS – Thriving in a Changing Landscape
Whether you’re navigating restructures, considering a shift in direction, or feeling the weight of uncertainty in your role, this interactive session offers space to pause, reflect, and refocus. You’ll leave with practical strategies, renewed clarity, and a toolkit of ideas to help you plan your next steps however complex the landscape.
What we will explore:
· How to manage transitions with confidence
· Ways to stay motivated when your future feels unclear
· Where to find growth opportunities even in tough systems
· Mindsets and behaviours that support long-term adaptability
Visit our website to book your place.
Can’t wait for the session? Learn about how continuous learning can boost career agility.
New Managers’ Toolbox Sessions – Now Open for Booking!
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.
Please visit our events page on our website for further information and to book. Places are limited!
Conscious Leadership Series – For Senior Leaders Navigating Complexity
This new virtual series is designed exclusively for senior leaders who want to deepen their leadership impact, build emotional resilience, and influence in complex systems.
Each topic is delivered across two non-consecutive sessions, giving you time to reflect, apply learning, and return for deeper insight and peer discussion.
Attendance to both sessions is mandatory, please do not book unless you can attend both dates.
Upcoming sessions include:
- Power, Politics and Organisational Culture
Step back and explore how power, culture, and unspoken dynamics influence your leadership. Learn how to read the system, navigate political complexity, and lead cultural change with intention. - Advanced Emotional Intelligence for Senior Leaders
Go beyond the basics to refine your emotional awareness and impact. Strengthen trust, psychological safety, and presence—especially in high-pressure or emotionally charged situations. - Imposter Syndrome in Senior Leadership
Explore the hidden effects of imposter syndrome at senior levels and gain practical strategies to lead with confidence, authenticity, and self-trust.
NHS Elect Career Webinars
We are pleased to announce two career webinars in collaboration with NHS Elect.
A career planning webinar which will help you to explore the impact of career change, provide an opportunity for review and reflection, explore what aspects of work bring excitement, where your strengths and interests lie and what these might tell you about future career choices inside or outside the NHS. This will include assessing transferable skills, making informed decisions, considering your career path and planning your next steps.
This webinar is scheduled to take place on 21st of August 13.00-14.30 hours. To book a place please click here.
The second webinar will focus on the Linked Platform and Online Branding.
The online world is key to how people navigate their careers. Sites such as LinkedIn are important gateways to new opportunities. This webinar will help you to understand how to maximise the effectiveness and impact of your online brand and use connections effectively. This will include linked in job searching, optimizing profiles, building/using networks and how artificial intelligence may help.
This webinar is scheduled to take place on 28th of August 13.00-14.30 hours. To book a place please click here.
New Events
Coaches Cafés
What are the ingredients that we bring to our coaching and how is this different from AI generated coaching ?
What are the resources that can enhance our development as coaches ?
In our Coaching café, our aim is to create a virtual space where coaches could come to meet other coaches to be with, share learning, resources and inspire and support each other.
For the rest of 2025 we are exploring the themes of our humanity as coaches.
Conscious Leadership Series
This virtual series is designed for senior leaders who want to deepen their leadership impact, build emotional resilience, and lead effectively within complex systems.
Each topic is explored over two non-consecutive half-day sessions. This structure allows time to reflect, apply insights, and return with new perspectives for deeper discussion and peer learning. (Attendance to both dates is mandatory)
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.