Programme overview
Similar problems occur again and again in most organisations. These often involve misunderstandings across organisational, departmental or professional boundaries, which can lead to misdirected energy, stress and burn out, lost opportunities, and dissatisfaction. Usually, the real solutions are to be found at the system level (i.e., not blaming individuals) and are often left undiscovered.
To address this, we are holding the Systems Leadership Learning Lab workshop to explore system management and leadership, and the ways in which this can help to improve our satisfaction, collaborative working, and the overall performance of our organisation.
The workshop is based on the ‘Organisation Workshop’, a model pioneered by Barry Oshry. It will enable you to explore and experience organisational life from different levels and perspectives, whatever your actual position.
We see the workshop as:
- providing us all with a whole systems view
- clarify the role of managers, enabling them to be as effective as possible
- developing partnership and entrepreneurialism throughout the organisation
- improving cross-organisational interaction
- helping their us all to understand the pressures faced by those around them
- help senior managers to understand the perspectives of those lower down in the organisation
- allowing senior managers to better understand their impact on others
- improve the effectiveness of our cross-functional teams
- strengthen partnerships between us and our customers
Outcomes
- Learning more about how to develop and lead energised, effective and powerful organisations
- Producing better results for yourself and your team
- Learning how to identify the predictable, harmful patterns that frequently occur in organisations and how to avoid them
- Discovering how to focus on the way people deal with the systemic conditions they face, rather than on their personalities
- Learning how to work more effectively with people at all levels and in all positions
- Discovering how to understand more and blame less
- Finding out how to experience less stress while making a greater contribution
Format
The workshop is enormous fun and highly participative/experiential. In the morning we form a new temporary organisation and uncover the underlying dynamics of organisational life. Frameworks are offered to make sense of it and we bring our collective experience of working together to bear on devising new strategies and tactics to be effective together in the afternoon and explore leading in systems.
Who should attend
This workshop is ideal for anyone who feels frustrated at work, in the sense that they want to get things done and need colleagues to co-operate or help out, but you cannot get them to. This can be (in your opinion) because of colleagues above you, peers in other parts of the organisation or other colleagues. Blaming others and feeling ineffective is a good indicator that this workshop is for you.
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Speakers
Martin Fischer
Independent Organisational/Management Development Consultant, Fischer Associates Ltd
For the past ten years Martin has been an independent organisational/management development consultant and an associate of the Centre for Innovation in Health management at Leeds University and London South Bank university. His work includes leadership development and organisational development. He works with organisations, health economies and nationally. National work includes facilitating the Medicine and Management Inquiry, taking Presidents of the Royal Colleges to Boston on a study tour to understand quality in systems and applied research on the dynamic between doctors and patients as well as running many national systems leadership programmes. Martin has particular experience of approaches to integrated care. When working with front line staff he supports the development of new models of care using a rigorous systems approach to the characteristics a service needs to provide. When working with leaders he helps them identify the necessary conditions for this to deliver and OD strategies that will bring them about (e.g. in East London and Croydon). In Surrey he was working with small groups across organisations to support them to prototype new models of integrated care. In CC4C work spanned citizens, primary care MDT teams and acute paediatrics at Imperial.
Daghni Rajasingam
Consultant Obstetrician and Deputy Medical Director, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Daghni Rajasingam is a consultant obstetrician with a specialist interest in high risk maternal care, who is passionate about reducing health and gender inequalities. Daghni is Deputy Medical Director at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust with a portfolio for leadership development, quality improvement and resilience and is the Regional Lead Obstetrician for South-East of England. She is a maternity clinical advisor to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch. Daghni has a Masters in Leadership and Partnership Working and has an honorary readership with Kings College London in Healthcare Management and Leadership. She is an accredited Executive Coach and trained mediator in alternative dispute resolution. She is actively involved in research and training for resilient healthcare professionals and is the senior clinical lead for Care Redesign Improvement System (the improvement system at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital Foundation Trust). Daghni was NHS London’s clinical lead for leadership development, clinical lead for London’s Clinical Leadership Network and a member of the National Task Force for senior female medical leadership. She helped develop the CLN REAL, promoting BAME leadership within the NHS and developed the CLN/ National Clinical Commissioning Group Congress 2011. She was listed in the 2013 HSJ BME Pioneers list and 2014 HSJ Inspirational Women in Healthcare Awards.