2024 Festival of Leadership Takeaways

Thank you for attending the 2024 Festival of Leadership. Your participation made this event truly special. We hope you found the sessions inspiring and took away valuable insights…

To help you maintain the momentum of this year’s festival throughout the rest of the year, we have gathered a collection of resources to assist you and your organisation on your leadership journey.

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Foundations in Systems Leadership Programme

The Foundations in System Leadership programme is open to all colleagues who have a desire to improve the way they collaborate across organisational, professional and hierarchical boundaries to design and deliver better health outcomes.

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Leadership Live Episode 2

This on-demand series discusses leadership with experts from health and care to stimulate new thinking, fresh perspectives, and share best practice. Episode 2 explores system leadership through the bespoke Hyndburn Way programme.

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System Leadership Framework

Our system leadership behaviours self-assessment tool has been designed to support leaders at all levels in systems. It will: provide space for self-reflection, highlight your strengths, and support your leadership development.

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NHS North West Anti-racism Framework

Developed by the North West BAME Assembly and NHS England North West, this document provides a framework for all NHS organisations across the North West to work towards the ambition of becoming actively anti-racist organisations. It includes practical steps and suggested actions to support existing change activity for organisations to include in their equality action plans and to build long-term inclusion strategies.

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Citizen’s Leadership Toolkit

Build capacity and confidence in communities as citizen leaders with our citizen leadership toolkit. The toolkit gives you everything you need to support and empower your community to own their personal health and wellbeing.

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Looking After Your Team’s Health and Wellbeing Guide

This guide, ‘Looking After Your Team’s Health and Wellbeing’, has been designed to help you and your team explore what being a part of healthy team means for you.

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Employee well-being outcomes from individual-level mental health interventions: Cross-sectional evidence from the United Kingdom

Dr. William Flemming from Oxford University’s Wellbeing Research Centre wrote a report about the debate on mental well-being interventions for British workers. The report compares the effectiveness of common well-being interventions and raises concerns that individual-level interventions may not fully address working conditions.

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Organisation interventions to support staff wellbeing: Case studies and learning from the NHS

There has been limited exploration of organisational interventions within the NHS to support staff well-being. This report aims to identify examples of such interventions, outline how they aim to reduce demands and increase resources, and identify barriers and facilitators of success. Additionally, it aims to summarise key recommendations for promoting more and better organizational interventions to support staff well-being.

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Thank you and well done to every person who has made a 100-day pledge at the Festival of Leadership, takes real leadership to publicly commit to action!

The countdown to begin taking action is underway. A member of our team will contact each person who made a pledge to find out how you’ve progressed in turning your pledge into action. We want to hear about your successes, as well as any challenges, barriers, or failures may have encountered while trying to make your commitment a reality.

Look out for an email from one of our team coming your way in 2025…

How Was Your Day?

We hope you enjoyed the NHS North West 2024 Festival of Leadership! To help us improve future events, we’d love to hear your honest feedback. Whether it’s about what worked well or what could be better, your input is invaluable to us. Please take a moment to share your thoughts in our short survey and help shape our next event. Thank you!

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