Recent legislative changes and a greater focus on population health outcomes require new styles of leadership and new ways of working that prioritise collaboration and integration.
But developing these against an operational context of increasing service demand, continued post-pandemic pressures and workforce shortages can be a significant challenge.
Arden & GEM’s Leadership Development support helps leadership teams to navigate new structures and responsibilities – including ICBs, provider collaboratives and specialised commissioning delegation – effectively and confidently. We work in collaboration with leaders to assess emerging needs and co-create a programme of work that develops peer to peer relationships, offers mentoring and coaching, and builds leadership capability and capacity.
Our support includes:
- Leadership development to drive transformational change through an alignment of priorities, roadmaps and language
- Board and committee development including organisational and system maturity reviews, shared approaches to system risk alignment, and governance at organisational, system, place and regional levels to ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
- Coaching interventions to help solve difficult and complex issues and enabling effective senior level organisational and system working
- Leadership development programmes at a system, board and organisational level
- Undertaking developmental reviews aligned to the well-led framework focusing on leadership, governance, risk, culture, staff and patient engagement, and quality improvement
- Working with leaders, teams and individuals on relational issues, surfacing concerns and creating open forums for sharing problems and collaboratively resolving them.
Why Arden & GEM?
Arden & GEM has a proven track record of working with stakeholders through a co-design methodology which promotes distributed leadership.
We work in a coaching, developmental and non-judgemental way which in itself supports the development of leaders.
Our work increases leaders' ability to manage relationships, challenging conversations and change. We assist leaders in identifying leadership, culture and governance gaps, as well as how to resolve them and ensure they are well led.
CASE STUDIES
Arden & GEM is already helping healthcare systems to deliver Leadership Development services. Find out more by accessing the resources below.
Building an inclusive culture of leadership in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS
In April 2022, NHS Arden & GEM was engaged as a strategic partner to support Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) ICS in its ambition to create a system-wide inclusive culture of leadership.
Increasing Board and Executive team impact at Norfolk and Waveney Mind through coaching interventions
Mental health charity, Norfolk and Waveney Mind engaged Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation team for a 12-month period, to deliver coaching interventions for the Trustee Board and Executive team.
Improving system relationships through team coaching interventions
Arden & GEM’s Health and Care Transformation team was engaged by one ICS, for a 12-month period, to deliver coaching interventions for the Chairs and CEOs of local NHS organisations.
Developing a leadership development programme for UHCW
As part of its commitment to and investment in developing healthcare leaders, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust commissioned Arden & GEM’s Leadership and OD team to co-design and deliver a new leadership development programme.
Delivering a Clinical Executive Forum development programme for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS
Arden & GEM worked collaboratively with Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS to design and deliver a tailored development programme for the system's Clinical Executive Forum.
Supporting Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in its ambition to become an outstanding organisation
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital commissioned Arden & GEM’s Effective Leadership Solutions team to undertake an independent well-led review that will help the Trust operate within an increasingly complex and changing NHS landscape.
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