Lancashire & South Cumbria Cancer Alliance has commissioned an external company, Prospect Business Consulting Ltd (www.weareprospect.com) to deliver a Leadership Programme for MDT Leads and Chairs.

The development is aimed at those in lead/ chair roles in supporting them within their role and to look at ways to enhance their MDT effectiveness as part of the implementation of streamlining MDT’s and MDM’s.

The training will cover

• Reflecting upon your leadership style and improving your own ability to lead the MDT and work with others

• Exploring the factors that impact upon MDT effectiveness – inside the MDT meeting and outside the MDT meeting Understanding practical ways of improving team performance and excellence

• Exploring your role in leading change and transformation and how to address

• Exploring your conflict handling approach (use self-assessments) and techniques for influencing, handling resistance and conflict, identifying ‘hot and cold’ conflict behaviors

• Have the opportunity through skills practice to gain tools and techniques to allow you to hold effective conversations / difficult conversations (using real work scenarios) that need you to manage a conflict or influence a situation encouraging collaboration using a coaching approach

There is an expectation where possible that all sessions will be attended and there will be CPD credits available and certificate of attendances from the Cancer Alliance on completion.

Programme Outline

The leadership programme will be delivered as below:

• May 2021 - Masterclass 1 (webinar via zoom – 2.5 hours) – Leading a highly effecting MDT and tools to support review of the MDT

• June 2021 - Masterclass 2 (webinar via zoom – 2.5 hours) – Leading Transformation and Change

• September 2021 - Masterclass 3 (face to face – half day) – Influencing as a leader and managing conflict / effective conversations

Masterclasses 1 and 2 will be delivered virtually via zoom. Further information on getting the best out of using zoom when joining the webinars will be circulated ahead of each webinar date.

Each masterclass will be run twice, with up to 25 dates per masterclass.