Boardwide Leadership Provision

Influence is Critical

Being able to influence effectively at all levels across the organisation in a way that builds relationships for today and for tomorrow is a critical leadership skill.

Being able to influence effectively supports NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to fulfill our purpose, develop our culture and capability and to work efficiently with other agencies.

We have developed learning videos to offer some simple tools and approaches to develop your influencing skills.

• Behavioural Styles
• Mapping Best Practice
• Principles of Power
• Stakeholder Influencing Process
• Stakeholder Mapping Process.

To view these videos, please visit our Staffnet pages.

Further development in the form of a one day Strategic Influencing Skills workshop and access to one-to-one Influencing Coaching sessions may be available – please discuss with your OD Advisor and line manager.

Short, focused sessions can be a useful way of learning about new ways of thinking or good practice from others without undertaking a longer development programme.

Our online leadership sessions focus on specific leadership topics or skills and are designed to offer a “taster” or introduction rather than deep knowledge or learning.

Online leadership sessions are aimed at mid/senior level or those who have completed a longitudinal leadership programme. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.

2024/25 Calendar

• Thursday 28th November 3.30pm – Kind and Effective Leadership – Sue Simpson
• Tuesday 10th December 08.30am – Equalities and Human Rights – Alastair Low
• Tuesday 4th February 2025 08.30am – Understanding Your Personal Values and Strengths – James Carrier, People Shift
• Tuesday 11th March 08.30am – A Coaching Approach to Leadership – Maria Moreno, M Potential
• Thursday 24th April
• Tuesday 27th May
• Thursday 25th June 08.30am
• Tuesday 26th August
• Wednesday 24th September 08.30am – Giving Feedback – Maria Moreno, M Potential
• Tuesday 28th October
• Wednesday 12th November
• Tuesday 9th December

Everything offered by OD aims to be inclusive for all staff. Please email lisa.donnelly@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or your local OD Advisor, if we can help with any arrangements, for instance for staff with a sensory impairment, that would make our programmes or materials easier for you to access.

Coaching is a person centred, future focussed and positive development approach.

It is increasingly used in all business settings, including the Health Service across Scotland. It has been shown to be a cost-effective and holistic approach to improving both individual and organisational performance.

In our Board, coaching interventions are always linked to organisational objectives whilst recognising the need for individuals to have support and challenge as part of the coaching process. Coaching is always a confidential and supportive intervention. It is well recognised that when managers take a coaching approach with staff that engagement, motivation and productivity can increase.

The Board has a small bank of professional trained coaches who are able to provide a coaching service. To access this coaching service you need to discuss your needs with your line manager in the first instance.

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is a structured development approach where coach and ‘coachee’ undertake a series of one to one meetings to oversee a process of personal development.

Meetings are confidential and a coach will never share any details of what is discussed (unless helpful to the process and by agreement).

A register of approved executive coaches who have been chosen for their experience and results at this level is now in place and held by the Heads of OD.

Approved coaches have experience in different organisational settings, are professionally accredited and licensed to use a range of psychometrics and 360 tools if applicable.

Coaching activity will be time bound, regularly reviewed against objectives and evaluated by OD both at the individual level and as an overall provision in the organisation.

Further Information

To discuss whether coaching is the right option for you, or for further information please contact your OD Advisor.

Everything offered by OD aims to be inclusive for all staff. If we can help with any arrangements, for instance for staff with a sensory impairment, that would make our programmes or materials easier for you to access.

Teams are the vehicle that brings the skills, knowledge and experience of individuals together to enable NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde be a highly effective organisation.  

The Affina Team Journey provides a proactive approach for implementing and maintaining effective team working across the whole organisation and between organisations. Both underpin and reflect our organisational value “we work as one team”.

The Affina Team Journey is a unique step-by-step interactive programme, providing easy-to-use diagnostic tools for assessing a team’s performance, and tools to develop team effectiveness in the areas identified in research as essential for team success.

For further information contact your OD Advisor.

Everything offered by OD aims to be inclusive for all staff. If we can help with any arrangements, for instance for staff with a sensory impairment, that would make our programmes or materials easier for you to access.

Introduction letter from Dr Jennifer Armstrong, Board Medical Director

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to make you aware of and fully support you to take part in the Medical Management Development Programme in NHSGGC. This new initiative has been created to address the succession planning and development needs of doctors in leadership positions across primary, secondary and mental health care. As you know, these roles are critical for shaping clinical and service change across the Board, for the effective leadership and management of the medical workforce and ultimately for the delivery of high quality patient care. The programme aims to support your development in the skills and knowledge required in these roles and it also contributes to your continuous professional development.

There are 8 modules in the programme, all delivered three times a year in a published schedule across the calendar year. This gives you flexible options for attendance and completion of the programme over 12 months. There will also be opportunities for coaching and mentoring support and further learning.

If you are keen to advance your career in Medical Management or anticipate that you will be asked to fulfil such a position in the future please take full advantage of this important development opportunity.

Many thanks,

Dr Jennifer Armstrong, Board Medical Director

Information on all modules is available in our programme descriptor

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The North, South and Clyde Sectors and Womens and Childrens Services have joined forces to collaborate on a pilot leadership programme called Leadership Lift Foundations (LLF).

Leadership Lift Foundations is a leadership development journey that focuses on practical application and group mentoring support alongside leadership and management theory. The desired outcome is that, as a leader, you feel proactively supported in your leadership role.

The programme runs over a 4 month period in short, bite sized sessions and starts with completion of a self-assessment questionnaire from which you will receive a leadership profile report, a profile debrief and a development planning session to enhance and align with your existing Personal Development Plan (PDP).

It includes leadership modules and modules related to operational management, including group mentoring and learning sessions aimed at reflecting and embedding lessons from the leadership and management modules which you complete and involves discussing practical application and case examples with experienced leaders to ensure the transfer and practical application of learning as well as expand your circle and network of support.

The programme will run collaboratively across GGC so that learning can be shared across and create opportunities for cross collaboration and networking, so you will get to meet other leaders from across the organisation.  

To complete the programme will require approximately 14 days of your time over 4 months, at an average of 2 hours a week. All sessions will be virtual using MS Teams.

For more information contact Claire.robertson@ggc.scot.nhs.uk for North Sector and Women and Childrens Services and Julie.pearson@ggc.scot.nhs.uk for Clyde Sector.

Enhancing leadership capacity and capability at every level of the organisation is crucial to meeting our organisational goals and achieving our outcomes. 

Ready to Lead has been designed to support frontline leaders develop critical skills and competencies to support their leadership role within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Descriptors for each module are in the Programme Information Pack 

Leading Effective Teams 

The key objective of this module is to enable team leaders facilitate the development of their team towards high performance. A range of tools and techniques will be covered to support individuals develop the skills and confidence to most effectively develop their teams.

Leading Continuous Improvement

Designed to provide delegates with a deeper understanding of improvement and redesign and will cover a range of tools and techniques, and support delegates to undertake their individual improvement projects.

Emotional Intelligence

Designed to support delegates to become more aware of the impact of the role that emotions play in personal effectiveness and in building and maintaining professional relationships.

Enabling Conversations

This module further embeds the principles of Emotional Intelligence specifically around developing approaches and skills to support productive conversations which achieve positive outcomes.

Leading With The Brain in Mind 

The key objectives of this module are for participants to understand new thinking on how the brain functions. They will get insight into their own brain’s capacities to enable them to manage themselves more effectively as well as brain training to improve individual functioning. Brain drivers are examined and explored to lead to better interactions and management of self and others.

There are also examples of Participant Improvement Projects to view.

Contact your local OD Advisor for more information.

Everything offered by OD aims to be inclusive for all staff. If we can help with any arrangements, for instance for staff with a sensory impairment, that would make our programmes or materials easier for you to access.