Description of improvements to leadership interventions with Leadership Fellows Award of The Health Foundation

1. The Leadership
Fellows Scheme -
supporting leadership
for quality improvement Evidence of
Organi-
in the NHS Individual
sational
impact
More reflective Patient Quality
coaching Advisors
Site Visits as a Do-it-yourself Quality, Culture Collaborative
Innovation and
leadership task 360s change, Facilitation Inquiry seminars
improvement
Strengthening More sustainable Sustainable Supervision
activity
mentorship action learning networking
Current
Developing
improvement focus
critical reading
Commitment
to managing
9 Action
4
innovation
Learning
Seminars
sets
Assess Site visits
ment
Main components
Centre
18 4 Work-
of Leadership
Coaching shops
sessions
Fellows Scheme

2. Main components
of Leadership
Fellows Scheme
Programme team shapes the strategy, manages the recruitment and
quality assurance of Leadership Development Consultants to facilitate
Commitment
the Scheme, selection of Fellows, visits to them all, administration and
to managing evaluation of the Scheme in a way that enables and encourages
innovation continuous innovation and improvement
24 hour intensive assessment
2 hour coaching sessions by
18
of presentation, group,
Assess phone or face-to-face
numeracy and reasoning skills Coaching
ment against LQF competencies sessions
Centre
Coach and Health
2 groups of eight whose
9 Action Foundation Officer visits
facilitator is not their coach
Learning Site visits each Fellow at work
sets
3-4 authoritative Each Fellow presents an
4 Work-
practitioners in health
4 aspect of her/his leadership
leadership contributing to a shops to colleagues for feedback
Seminars themed day

3. Innovation and
improvement
activity
Rebecca Pulford,
Fellow, Matron,
Elderly Services
More reflective Do-it-yourself
coaching 360s
• Coaching preparation forms -
Having Fellows build their own
now including questions on
360 out of site visit data and
quality improvement, delegation
their own development goals,
and financial savings Site Visits as a
embedded in the Leadership
leadership task
Qualities Framework, using
• Mid-scheme reflections at the
success criteria which become
end of the first year to provide • To identify organisational
their agenda for whole award
agenda for first coaching purpose of investing in a Fellow
(Getting to 10 is the goal)
session of 2008
• To identify the demands on
• Reflection after workshop Fellow and development
delivery for highlighting of, and implications
application of learning about
leadership practice
• Treating this as a leadership
task in its own right, coaching an
• Review of coaching at end of
awareness of its leadership,
award for reflection in final
strategy and management
session
demands

4. Carol Cottingham
Fellow, PCT
Commissioner, Long
Innovation and Term Conditions
improvement
activity
Strengthening More sustainable
mentorship action learning
• Offering a Mentor Day for • Set-members developing
mentors to meet each other facilitation skills, through
• Monitoring Mentor contact practice and observer+
through the Coaching Prep participant feedback
form
during set
• Matchmaking from our • Introducing a range of
increasing network to pair up action learning processes,
Fellows with mentors including “hot-seat”, “sit- Developing
critical reading
out” and “kerb-side
coaching”