Aspiring Directors Development

COURSE CONTENT

NHS East of England is running an Aspiring Directors Development Programme.

The consortium of The Kings Fund, Cumberlege Connections, Frontline Consultants and Practive will continue to be the provider of the programme for 2009/10.

WHO IS THE PROGRAMME FOR?

• Participants are nominated by their sponsoring organisations on the basis of their perceived potential and aspiration to both improve performance in their current role and to develop the skills and expertise to enable them to progress to more complex roles.

• Applicants should aspire to becoming Directors within the next 1 to 3 years and should be able to demonstrate this, through both past performance and future potential.

EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP
The request for 4 nominations has been sent to Chief Executives and Directors of Human Resources in each organisation and the process of application and assessment will then be provided to all nominees.

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
The programme provides a systematic approach to the diagnosis of development needs for individuals, and signposting to appropriate developmental opportunities according to identified needs and learning styles.
The principles that underpin the East of England Approach are that leadership development needs to:

• recognise the different starting points and learning styles of individuals
• link to service improvement and delivery
• integrate development and learning between disciplines and professions
• build on and complement existing leadership development opportunities.

WHAT DOES THE PROGRAMME INVOLVE?
The programme will provide the following components over a 12 month period:-

Launch and Celebration events for all participants

Development Centre
Participants will attend a 2 day Development Centre, which consists of an interactive, behaviour driven multi stage simulation exercise which reflects the dilemmas and complexities of a senior role with in the NHS. Participants will receive feedback on their approach and formulate development objectives.

360 Feedback using the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework

4 Core Modules which all participants will attend The Individual Leader, Leading Teams and people, Leading in Context, Leading Performance

Optional Master classes (up to 4) which will provide theoretical inputs and facilitated debates on key topics such as managing change, influencing and communication skills, commissioning in the NHS, finance for the non financial manager, IT enabled transformation, health inequalities.

Action Learning
Participants will attend facilitated action learning sets to allow participants to take action to improve services whilst at the same time developing themselves. Participants will be asked to agree a service improvement project to work on over the course of the programme and feedback outcomes at the end of the programme.

Coaching Participants will be able to have four 1:1 coaching sessions

Mentoring by an existing Chief Executive or Director or similar role to provide knowledge and guidance

Networking opportunities with colleagues across the East of England