Leadership Development Programme

Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

The Leadership Programme, targeting Grade 6 and above, aims to build a cohesive leadership coalition across departments by utilising culture diagnostic insights to address critical gaps. It includes quarterly Leadership Learning Days for immersive sessions, monthly Peer Group Connects to strengthen trust and shared practices, hosted Leadership Conversations for applying leadership to real issues, and an Annual Capstone Event to reinforce shared direction. Each component fosters collective ownership, enhances leadership capabilities, and promotes a common language for ongoing dialogue, ensuring sustained development and collaboration throughout the year. Recommended to be delivered across a 12 month period but can be done in a shorter time if required.

Overview:
1.Quarterly Leadership Learning Days

Purpose
• Build the confidence and capability of the leadership team to lead people, teams, and the system, not just delivery.

What happens
• Highly immersive, facilitated sessions focused on real challenges.
• Culture diagnostic insights are used to target priority leadership gaps.
• Develop a shared leadership language.

Leadership impact
• Greater confidence to step into people leadership.
• Earlier and more effective handling of difficult issues.
• Stronger collective ownership across departmental boundaries.

Connection to the wider programme/department
• Each session sets a clear leadership focus.
• That focus is deliberately cascaded into the specific Grade leadership conversations that follow.

2. Monthly Peer Group Connects

Purpose
• Strengthen trust, cohesion, and shared leadership practice within the leadership team.

What happens
• Small, self-moderated peer groups meet regularly.
• Sessions focus on live leadership challenges.
• Sessions support application of learning between quarterly events.

Leadership impact
• Deeper relationships and trust across the team.
• Increased confidence to lead collectively rather than individually.
• Sustained leadership learning over time.

Connection to the wider programme
• Peer groups provide the connective tissue between formal leadership events.
• Momentum and leadership practice are maintained throughout the year.

3. Hosted Leadership Conversations

Purpose
• Enable specific Grade leaders to apply the leadership focus to real delivery challenges.

What happens
• Leaders host structured leadership conversations with cross-department Grade specific groups.
• Sessions work with live delivery and leadership issues.
• The same leadership language is used across levels.

Leadership impact
• Greater confidence to take ownership and make decisions.
• Reduced reliance on escalation for issues that can be led at specific Grade.
• Stronger leadership behaviour alongside delivery accountability.

Connection to the wider programme
• These conversations apply and test the leadership focus set by the team.
• Insight and challenge from specific Grade flows back into future leadership days.

4. Annual Capstone Event

Purpose
• Bring teams and leaders together to reinforce shared direction and leadership identity.

What happens
• A highly interactive event bringing together leaders from across the programme/department mid-way through the programme.
• Dialogue and reflection across levels and departments.
• Problem solving grounded in the leadership themes developed during the year.
• Leadership impact
• Stronger cross-department relationships.
• Increased trust and shared understanding of good leadership.
• Renewed energy and alignment across the system.

Connection to the wider programme
• The Capstone Event brings together learning and relationships built across the year.
• It creates alignment and momentum for the next phase of delivery.