Adaptive Leadership: Building Capacity to Respond to Unexpected Situations for Educators and Supervisors (FD15SEP26)

We are obviously experiencing a lot of disruptive change in the health sector right now.

As educators, we need to help the people we’re working with develop their ability to spot the need for change early and respond effectively. We also need to be effective at adapting ourselves.

We define adaptive leadership as the mindset, skills and practices that help us respond effectively in the face of a rapidly changing, unpredictable, or unknown environment.

Leading well in times like this is not easy. The skills required are very different to those that serve us well in more stable times, and there are several traps that can inhibit us.

Fortunately, there are some standout organisations and leaders who can teach us a lot about how to not only survive but thrive in an environment of constant change.

Our aim with this session is to help you to become a better adaptive leader yourself, as well as equip you develop these skills in the leaders you work with.

This will be a very practical session. Combining facilitator input, reflection on opportunities for you to adapt, and a number of enjoyable exercises which bring the skills to life.

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 develop your capability as an adaptive leader and equip you to support others in building these skills. This includes strengthening your ability to recognise the need for change, lead innovation and respond effectively in complex and evolving environments.

The workshop will include:

• The core skills of adaptive leadership
• Common traps that can slow people’s response to change
• Experiential group exercises designed to simulate complexity and uncertainty, giving you an opportunity to raise awareness of and build your skills
• Opportunity to reflect on and discuss with pairs current adaptive challenges in healthcare and health education relevant to your role

By the end of the workshop attendees will be better equipped to:

• Spot important changes early
• Manage your response to unexpected situations
• Run effective experiments to help evolve our approach
• Lead change and work through resistance – including managing upwards
• Incorporate the above skills in our education programme