Workshop A - Changing Mindsets in the NHS
Dr Eden Charles, People Opportunities Limited

Eden will outline some radical proven strategies for changing the ways that people think about equality. These approaches are based upon the experiences and perspectives of the people that it most affects and builds upon the widespread aspirations for greater equality, justice and cultural competence in the NHS.

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Workshop B - Case Study: The Police Service
Angela O'Connor, Chief People Officer, NPIA

This will be an interactive session where Angela O'Connor, the Chief People Officer of the NPIA will outline the diversity challenges faced by police across England and Wales over the coming years and in broad terms what is planned. Charles Phelps, the Head of Leadership Services will then outline how High Potential Schemes are being used to help target the issues and some of the challenges faced. Avi Franks, a Development Advisor, will then give details of one specific programme aimed at Black Chief Inspectors, with the intention of providing development to allow for greater progression to senior roles.

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Workshop C - Developing Effective Boards
Rachel Duffy, Associate Board Level Development, NHS Institute
Jeremy Crabb, Associate Board Level Development, NHS Institute

Synopsis

• To share the latest research of what constitutes a high performing Board
• To explore its application within a reformed NHS
• To share practical NHS experiences of developing Board effectiveness
• To identify the major challenges currently faced by NHS Boards
• To explore the implications for Board and individual development

Workshop D - Driving Diversity & Inclusion at Microsoft
Nicola Hodson, General Manager, Public Sector, UK

Driving Diversity & Inclusion is a critical global objective for Microsoft, not only does the creation of a diverse, inclusive working environment align closely with Microsoft values, it makes sound business sense. In a challenging commercial environment, successful organisations must effectively build, nurture and retain the most talented people. Diversity & Inclusion is at the very heart of such talent management: enabling the attraction of the widest possible pool of candidates; building a culture of respect and inclusion, where every single person feels empowered to do their best work; and retaining talented people who drive value for the organisation, and themselves, over the long-term.

Workshop E - Engaging Leadership & Valuing Diversity: the inextricable link in creating organisations that maximise the potential of their people
Juliette Alban-Metcalfe, Managing Director Real World Group
Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe, Chief Executive Real World Group and Professor of Leadership, University of Bradford School of Management

In an era of swingeing cuts, the NHS will only be able to provide the highest quality of patient care and safety if it maximises the potential of all staff by creating and sustaining a culture of engagement.

This presentation will describe how research, including our own, on leadership and diversity has revealed how this can best be achieved by organisations, and what steps individual managers can take to increase their influence and their team’s effectiveness.

Workshop F - Managing Workplace Issues in a Culturally Competent Manner
NHS Employers

In this workshop, NHS Employers will facilitate a session that will look at how delegates can use the knowledge and skills they will or have gained from the Breaking Through Programme to help their organisation to achieve cultural competence.

Workshop G - Managing Your Career During Uncertain Times
Michael Moran CEO Fairplace

How do you successful manage your career in a rapidly changing environment? How do you guarantee employability?

Michael will introduce participants to the Intelligent Career Model. Participants will be invited to identify their ideal role 3-5 years into the future, identify the competencies (skills, knowledge, expertise) the very best candidate will need for that role, and finally carry out a self assessment against those competencies. The session will conclude by giving participants a route map to achieve those competencies.

Workshop H - Workforce Issues in Challenging Times
Jo Webber, Futurist

This interactive workshop will look at some of the challenges that the NHS will have to meet over the next few years as the current financial situation tightens and demographic changes and lifestyle issues impact on population health and wellbeing. New initiatives and a new government will mean that organisations need to look again at their workforce and how to make this fit for purpose, innovative and able to work with local communities both proactively and in response to the changing agenda.

Workshop I - NHS Transformation Programmes – Getting to Good at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Neda Hormozi, Programme manager, Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust

The presentation will describe the first steps in assessing and achieving transformation

• Mid Staffs – what are the issues, the problems, symptoms of organisations in need of transformation
• Identifying 5 key priority themes
• What good looks like
• How do we plan to get there?
• How do we know when we’re there?

Workshop J - The IDeA Get Ahead Programme
Carmelita Charles, Get Ahead Programme Manager, IDeA
Kaj Lakhani, Commissioning Development Manager, Commissioning Support for London, NHS

The IDeA Get Ahead programme is designed to give Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) managers in local government the skills, insights, confidence and motivation to become high achievers and ready for leadership roles.

It is aimed at BAME managers at fourth tier and above aspiring to chief officer roles within the next 2-4 years. Delegates attending this workshop will be provided with a description and outcomes of the programme. They will have the opportunity to hear the personal experience of a graduate of the programme and also consider what more needs to be done.

Workshop K - Workforce and Leadership Challenges
John James, Programme Consultant, NSR Leadership Workstream

John James will lead a workshop on Talent and Leadership. In particular focussing on what is emerging from the Strategic Health Authorities Talent and Leadership Assurance visits.

Workshop L - World Class Commissioning; The second year of WCC and its implications for the NHS
Claire Whittington, Acting Director of Commissioning in the Commissioning and System Management Directorate of the Department of Health
Angela Gibson, On secondment to the Department of Health from Sutton and Merton PCT

WCC assurance is about increasing performance and ambition in commissioning. This year, the NHS faces the duel challenge of improving quality at a time of real economic constaints. The expectations of Year 2 of WCC has signifiant implications for the way services are commissioned and provided. This session explores these implications and will provide some insight into how PCTs and providers will be required to develop capability and skills to improve quality at the same time as improving productivity and cost effectiveness.

Workshop M - ‘You cannot not communicate’, An introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming
Dave Thornton, Executive Coach

Ever wondered what this NLP thing is, well satisfy your curiosity with a brief introduction. Discover the sorts of things that using NLP can do for you and the difference it can make having a greater understanding of the effects your senses, your internal thinking processes and even your posture have on what you do, how you feel and how you get to a place of ‘yes I can’.

Workshop N - Personal Power
Valerie James

This workshop will show how the accomplished young Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, demonstrates her considerable personal, not positional, power. Valerie will offer a model to make sense of how this writer embodies her authority, demonstrates her integrity and communicates effectively to international audiences. Participants will consider how they can apply these ideas for their own development.