Future Leaders Courses
The FLP Curriculum and Courses Map outlines the opportunities available during your Fellowship year mapped to the Healthcare Leadership Model. The programme offers a series of leadership development courses for fellows.
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Information for Fellows | FLP Courses | Information for Supervisors | Future Leaders Recruitment
Contents
- Important Considerations
- Resources
- Booking a Course
- Course Calendar
- Course List
- Cancellations
- Course Overview
Important Considerations
The curriculum of additional FLP courses, offered to augment your PGCert and your project experience, has been carefully curated in response to fellows’ feedback. Courses are offered to support the development of your leadership skills. They are often costly to run and difficult to source elsewhere, therefore we would recommend attending as many as is appropriate for your particular learning needs. Places are often limited so bear this in mind when you book and ensure this is a firm commitment in your diary. Once your place on a course has been booked, please let us know in good time if your commitments change and you need to cancel your spot. If you discover that you cannot attend, you must send apologies to the course facilitator and cancel your place via Maxcourse so that is available for another fellow. This is a professional courtesy, as is arriving punctually and staying for the duration of the course. Exceptions to this should be arranged with the course facilitator in advance. Please consider where you attend from if a course is virtual: your location should be quiet and enable you to fully participate e.g. have both video and sound access. Cars, public transport, cafes and public spaces are all inappropriate locations to dial in from. You should not have childcare or caring responsibilities at the same time. Your fellow participants may be sharing sensitive or personal reflections and need to know you are treating their contributions with the respect they deserve.
Be mindful that you are building your reputation as a leader throughout the year: clear and timely communication taking responsibility for yourself and your own learning journey is key. Please do not think ‘it doesn’t matter if I don’t turn up, others will be there.’ Non-attendance wastes resources, but perhaps more importantly impacts the running of the group; if a few people simply do not turn up, the session may not be viable. Since the merger with NHSE we are under much closer scrutiny of resources and the ongoing support of your leadership development has been tough to secure. Poor attendance of a commissioned course may result in it ceasing to continue. Where a course has prep work e.g. completion of a questionnaire, timescales are even more important. Deadlines are set around both the commitments of the admin team and the course facilitator. Please be mindful of the competing time constraints on our admin colleagues - it is simply not possible for them to see and act on inbox emails urgently. To offer the place to someone else, purchase a questionnaire, administer and download it requires several days and sometimes over a week.
Fellows who cancel course places at very short notice or without giving apologies may have future learning opportunities restricted.
Resources
Booking a Course
Future Leaders courses are booked using the LSFD Maxcourse site. To find dates for upcoming Future Leaders courses, please use the course calendar or course list on Maxcourse. Links to the course calendar and course list are on the homepage and sidebar. A search tool is also available in the sidebar and homepage.
ou can self-enrol on Maxcourse prior to commencing in post. Please change your profession to Leadership Fellow, to ensure that you are able to log onto the relevant courses.For help updating your details, please see LSFD Maxcourse help.
Course Calendar
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Course List
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Cancellations
Although courses may be free at the point of access to Fellows, they are not free to the FLP. Cancelling a course / conference at short notice (particularly at less than 48 hours) means significant cost is incurred to the Programme, and impacts on the funding available for other courses and conferences.
If you are unable to attend a course or conference please e-mail the FLP Administartion team at your earliest convenience:
- Marking your e-mail for the attention of the Business Manager
- Outlining your reasons for cancellation.
Please note it is not acceptable to notify via Whatsapp alone. It is also unacceptable to offer no apologies or explanation for your absence.
We appreciate there will be occasions when cancellation is unavoidable due to illness or adverse life events, and are understanding of such reasons.
If cancellations are made without good reason or prior notification, Fellows will be refused funding for further activities and removed from the current FLP courses. You may be asked to repay the fee for the course.
Course Overview
A summary of the courses offered to fellows is given below. For more information, course dates, or to book, please see LSFD Maxcourse.
Leadership for Clinicians
This is a course aimed at all colleagues who have recently started the Future Leaders Programme and have not previously attended the “Leadership for Clinicians Early in Their Careers Course”. This will be an interactive, reflective day providing an understanding of clinical leadership and its role within the NHS.
Action Learning Sets
Action learning is a way of working in a small closed group in order to work on real issues, and thereby solve problems. It is aimed at developing a skilled response in the person whose issues are worked on as well as in the other members of the set.
Transforming Meetings
Ever wondered how you could keep meetings on track a bit more and actually get somewhere in with your deliberations? This workshop will introduce you to tools developed by Nancy Kline to enhance communication and help people become more effective in the workplace.
Presentation Skills
This highly practical session will enable participants to think about what presenting well means for them and their audience. Participants will have the opportunity to consider the components and purpose of an excellent presentation and how to connect with their audience.
Introduction to Coaching
This is a one-day interactive workshop and will introduce participants to the building blocks required to be an effective coach, and to a model they can use straightaway to begin to develop their own coaching skills.
Leadership in a VUCA Environment
VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. It is likely we will encounter each of these in our leadership journeys. This workshop will look at frameworks to help us make sense of: Transition and change and what the difference is between them.
Personal Wellbeing
Do you notice negative emotions or stress in yourself and others? Do you care for your own well-being? Do your actions show that health and well-being are important to you? This course provides an introduction to personal wellbeing and considers how this interacts with our working lives and leadership roles.
Building Skills in Assertiveness and Saying No
This session will focus on addressing some key leadership challenges. During this interactive session, we will explore the concept of assertiveness, the difference between being assertive and other types of behaviour, and how to be more assertive in the workplace while still being 'yourself'.
Managing Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome or Phenomenon is defined as ‘a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evidence of success’. This one-day interactive workshop looks at what Imposter Syndrome is, how it gets in the way of our work, and then more importantly what tools are available to manage it.
Managing Challenging Conversations
Challenging conversations are an inevitable part of human life and of leadership. This session will explore some tools that can help you prepare for and navigate challenging conversations that you encounter and feel more confident at managing challenging conversations including giving and receiving feedback.
Listening to Understand
Listening to understand and being able to change our perspective are fundamental skills for leadership. This half day workshop will examine questions around deep listening, authenticity and change, and create a space for particiants to practice personal reflection and pairs/small group work.
Structure and Power Dynamics in Healthcare Systems
This course will be an opportunity for participants to consider the current structure of the NHS, dilemmas and tensions within the system. The course will introduce participants to rank dynamics and explore how rank dynamics affect individuals, services and systems.
Writing for Publication
The skill of writing an article – and getting it published in a peer reviewed journal – is highly prized, but rarely taught. This two-day course concentrates on this skill and on the process of writing. You will learn a writing method and how to improve your draft and take it to submission.
Know Your Why
Your leadership fellowship is intense and busy. Although it includes reflective activities these can sometimes get pushed aside towards the end of the year. But a return to the day job rarely provides any more reflective time. This workshop is an opportunity to identify what you have learned and how you plan to use it as you move forward in your career.