Shapes in Practice Leadership session - How to prioritise powerfully, set boundaries, say no and deal with pushback (FD21JAN27)

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies

This course is only available to Educational Supervisors, Education Leads, Training Programme Directors and Senior Faculty within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

To equip senior healthcare educators and professionals with practical strategies and Shapes Toolkit models to manage workload stress, prioritise effectively, and set healthy boundaries, enabling sustainable performance, wellbeing, and confident leadership in high-pressure environments.

To help participants recognise and understand the factors that drive overwhelm and excessive workload in senior healthcare roles.

To introduce practical Shapes Toolkit models that support effective prioritisation, boundary setting and healthier ways of working.

To build confidence in having clear, compassionate conversations about limits and expectations, including how to navigate pushback.

Identify your main stressors and apply Shapes tools such as the Zone of Power and the Prioritisation Grid to focus on what is most important and within your control.

Set clearer, healthier boundaries by using your human limits as a guide, and recognise the likely consequences of boundary setting.

Respond more calmly and effectively to pushback or expectations from others, using strategies that protect your wellbeing and support sustainable working.