Shoulder to Shoulder (S2S) Senior Leadership Cohort Programme 3

Available for University Hospitals Tees staff only

Event details

  • Date: 14 November 2025 - 04 September 2026
  • Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Address: Strive, The James Cook University Hospital Marton Road Middlesbrough TS4 3BW

34 places remaining | Free event

The Leadership, Improvement and Safety Academy, within STRIVE, is delighted to offer a new development programme designed for senior clinical and operational managers in the Trust. 

The programme comprises six full day training and development sessions, cohorting senior leaders across all disciplines and specialities to support networks of practice across disciplines and service lines while also ensuring opportunities for networking and relationship building to strengthen teamwork and collaboration.

Programme = 6 x Full Day sessions
Session 1 – Self as instrument / What we wish we’d known
Session 2 – Leadership and Coaching Skills : Strategic leadership skills, and introduction to a coaching techniques
Session 3 – Improvement, Project Management and Business Cases: Improvement tools and techniques, project management basics, tricks for delivering sustainable projects, business cases and  benefits realisation
Session 4 – Safety, Civility and Moral Injury / Presenting with confidence and flair: how can we create and sustain positive cultures, and delivering engaging messages
Session 5 – Transactional management @ Senior level: managing finance at senior level, and restorative approaches to workforce management
Session 6 – Assertiveness and Difficult conversations / Next steps: Identify the 4 cornerstones of assertiveness, how confidence plays a role in assertive conversations and techniques for assertiveness, building trust and ownership of outcomes, identify and manage aggressive, assertive or submissive behaviours, giving and receiving feedback in an assertive way, saying no and sticking to it

SessionRoom LocationShoulder to Shoulder Cohort 2
Session OneRoom 43, STRIVE  14th November 2025
Session TwoRoom 20, STRIVE  9th January 2026
Session ThreeRoom 20, STRIVE  6th March 2026
Session FourRoom 20, STRIVE1st May 2026
Session FiveRoom 20, STRIVE3rd July 2026
Session SixTBC 4th September 2026
The structure offers a combination of leadership and practical management skills training designed to be able to flex according to the specific needs of the cohort. Please note sessions will be whole day sessions from 9.00am to 4.00pm

For more information, please contact [email protected]