Braver Leaders
Most of us don’t need to learn more’stuff’.
We do need space to process what we experience and possibly the courage to unlearn a few behaviours, expectations, and habits we’ve picked up along the way.
The Braver Leader programmes all combine behavioural science, neuroscience and lived leadership experience. the specific content will vary depending on your work environment and the stage of your leadership career.
These programmes are a deep, practical, and human development experience designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be.
Braver Leaders Programme
Good leadership is the glue that hold teams and organisations together, particularly in rough times.
Many people find the challenges and uncertainty of sustained change, staff turnover, and everyday work pressures, leaves them with little time to reflect and process what they experience.
The consequences are all to familar, good people feel unable to deliver no matter how hard they work, unvervalued or even unheard and impotent as leaders.
Sometimes space, community, and knowing you are not alone are exactly what you need to re-energise your leadership.
The Braver Leaders Programme is that space.
It enables people to build their knowledge and explore how their behaviour, their attitudes, and their ‘stories’ influence their leadership presence and impact.
This is most suited to service, ward or team leaders. (NHS band 7-8a)
The Braver Leaders Programme is built around the ICARE framework created by Prof Lynda Holt in 2018.
Matron / Head of Service Leadership Programme
The transistion into Matron / Head of Service role is perhaps one of the biggest leadership leaps. This programme uses the priniciples of braver leadership and personal growth from the ICARE Framework and layers it with the key roles and skills described in The Matron’s Handbook (2021).
The programme offers a comprehensive development experience, usually spread ove six months. It includes:
- Eight face to face workshop days, divided into four modules,
- Four facilitated peer mentoring groups
- 1:1 coaching
- Online learning library of bite sized resources
Braver Leaders for senior leadership
The programme will strengthen the identity, presence, and personal impact of senior leadership teams. It can be designed for specific professional groups like Directors and Divisional Directors of Nursing, or senior leadership teams with different backgrounds like a Divisional Triumvirate, or Executive Leads.
While the Braver Leader philosophy underpins the programme, it uses time together as senior leaders to amplify trust, build real peer support as well as constructive challenge, and identify where collective strengths benefit organisational aims.
At this level the exact makeup of the programme is flexible, but ususally includes:
- in-person workshops across four modules
- 3 x 1:1 coaching for personal growth and clarity
- 360 feedback & Insights Discovery to deepen reflection
- An online hub with a recap from in person days and bite sized resources relevent to topics discussed.
Leading Culture Change
Culture change requires movement not mandate. It is determined by the people with in it, and most organisations have many different micro cultures. Legislation and policy will support your leaders in setting boundaries and dealing with behaviour, but creating change requires ownership, connectedness and agency.
Culture change requires a different language, it requires collaboration, and most of all it requires leaders to both support and create movement. There are many lessons we can learn from social movements throughout history, in particular movement towards something you believe in, or away from behaviour, values, and actions your people don’t identify with.
Having led or facilitated culture change programmes for several decades two things are clear.
- People need space to explore who they are and where they fit.
- Story and narrative matter.
- Trust and psychological safety are paramount.
Lynda & Brian can support your culture change in a number of ways
One Day Workshops
These impactful days will get your people thinking differently, engaging with each other more meaningfully and focused on the things they can impact. Each workshop helps to delegates to work in a more connected way, and to pay attention to how they engage with other humans.
Workshops:
- How To Work With People Who Drive You Mad. – drawing on DiSC personality profiling this workshop helps people understand themselves and their teams better. it also provides insights into better communication.
- The Rising Cost of Incivility – participants will consider the human cost of incivility before looking at the four main types of incivility, and strategies to tackle them.
- Lost In Translation – leading four generations in the workplace – Delegates will look at the difference and similarities between generations before moving on to conside how to translate the best of leadership into something fit for the future.
