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Welcome to examples of OLPD's collaboration with clients and partners in developing leadership contribution at all levels
Coaching Senior NHS Executives and Clinical Leaders
OLPD now works closely with two prestigious programmes to bring Chief Officer and Senior Leadership coaching into the NHS. Robin Burgess has joined the coaching faculty at the Centre for Innovation in Health Management (CIHM) at the University of Leeds Business School, as well as the "Delivering the Future", strategic national Clinical Leadership Programme for the NHS in Scotland. Both programmes stimulate creativity and innovation, providing individual support to leaders in the NHS in the face of significant organisational challenges and opportunities. Leadership in public services today requires facilitating complex systems with partners through major transformational change.
Aberdeenshire Council prepares its leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st C.
Aberdeenshire Council understands that leadership cannot respond effectively to the unprecedented by applying more of the same. Following the successful first cohort of twenty, OLPD is now working with the second cohort of senior leaders who have volunteered to (i) develop their adaptive leadership understanding and expertise (ii) become skilled in facilitating action learning sets for colleagues to sustain leadership and cultural change.
"Leading Effectively" Programme delivered by OLPD in Shetland and the Western Isles
Following the successful pilot in Orkney with twelve managers from NHS Orkney and Orkney Islands Council, Robin Burgess of OLPD has provided this leadership programme (specially tuned to remote, rural and island experience) in Shetland and Western Isles. The programme is sponsored by NES with the support of the Remote and Rural Health Education Alliance (RRHEAL). In Shetland, participants from NHS Shetland worked in partnership with colleagues from Shetland Islands Council in developing their adaptive leadership skills and their ability to offer action learning to colleagues. In the Western Isles, a large cohort of NHS senior managers have taken forward the leadership skills and confidence they built on the programme in practical, sustainable initiatives beyond the programme. Both programmes culminated with locally designed "Conferences of Learning" in November, 2011, when participants engaged with local stakeholders in exploring leadership and its sustainable development to take forward local challenges in change and partnership. Both offered their colleagues an experience of action learning as a way of sustaining ongoing leadership development locally.
Action Learning for CHP management teams: run by OLPD with In Thyme and Malcolm Young Associates
Following a successful pilot with two CHPs in 2011-12, OLPD competed successfully to run the action learning project for ten CHPs from across Scotland. Funded by SSSC and NES, the equivalent of six half days of action learning for each of the ten CHPs will be completed by the end of March 2012. The participating organisations include urban, rural and island partnerships. All face the challenges of integration, a new identity as Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs), funding and bridging health and social care with and on behalf of their localities. The pilot demonstrated the need for skilled facilitation, which was provided by Robin Burgess and Julia Parker. They are now joined by Malcolm Young in providing an innovative response to assist the ten CHPs to deal with wicked issues around the Change Fund and the integration of Older People's services.
Apologies for temporary inaccessibility of our website
We are sincerely sorry that an error by our web host has caused our website to go offline from late November 2011 to 20 January 2012. This was outside our control and we hope that this has not caused serious inconvenience to your search for information or resources. We look forward to a blip free 2012 with our clients in which resilience and effectiveness can meet and overcome current challenges to leadership. With best wishes, Robin Burgess, OLPD
