Transform your Leadership via The Thinking Environment™ - Developing the listening, questioning and thinking skills that enable confident leadership in complex healthcare systems (FD23SEP26)

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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 enhance your leadership abilities and strengthen your vision within the NHS, you’ll gain tools to think more clearly, make decisions with confidence, and set a compelling vision for yourself and your team.

- Practice disciplined, interruption-free listening and experience how quickly their own thinking sharpens when genuinely heard.

- Structured thinking rounds ensure every participant has equal thinking time, modelling how to create inclusive leadership spaces on the ward or in meetings.

- Learn how leaders can generate ease through pace, tone, and structure - even in busy environments.

- Practice concise, specific appreciation and experience the immediate clarity it produces in their own thinking.

- Learn how encouragement differs from reassurance or praise, and how leaders can use it to unlock thinking in others.

- Experience how acknowledging feelings improves clarity and focus.

- Distinguish facts from assumptions and practice naming limiting beliefs that may be constraining leadership thinking.

- Share in exercises that deliberately surface different viewpoints, demonstrating how cognitive diversity improves outcomes.

- Reflect on how everyday leadership choices, meeting setup, use of space, online behaviours, either enhance or damage thinking.

- Learn and practice forming Incisive Questions relevant to leadership challenges, change resistance, and self-doubt.

• Think more clearly under pressure • Lead conversations that improve insight, not compliance • Create environments where others think better • Apply the Thinking Environment in clinical leadership, supervision, meetings and change initiatives