September has seen a great deal of activity for the team as our weekly updates testify. Our 2013 GMTS intake started and were welcomed into the NHS at the National Welcome Event. We are now gearing up for our the Regional Event
24 th October. Nominations for the Regional Leadership Awards came pouring in at the last minute with over 150 nominations! This is up on last year and the quality is very high, we’re looking forward to the Awards Ceremony 3 rd
December.
Inclusive and Diverse Leadership continues to be a high priority for us. We were delighted by the turnout at the
Inclusion Event for Chief Executives and Directors. The event provided a safe space for discussion and action planning to create more diverse senior leadership across Yorkshire and the Humber. We also received plenty of bids against the
Innov8 Fund and are very proud to be able to support individuals and organisations as they work to develop diverse talent.
Lisa Chan is a welcome addition to our team; she joins John Hunter as our key link supporting the delivery of the
National Leadership Programmes and Awards.
Looking ahead to the coming months our activity is increasingly aimed at improving engagement with our stakeholders across the Yorkshire and Humber region to ensure that our leadership and organisation development offer remains relevant and responsive to your needs. Support to ‘System Leadership’ interventions and specific OD consultancy requests seem to be on the increase which is exciting since we are in the process of re-launching the Strategic OD network. Working with OD practitioners across the patch we are designing interventions to increase capacity and capability in this area. If you would like more information please get in touch.
Kathryn Winterburn
Head of Leadership & Organisation Development
Yorkshire and the Humber Leadership Academy

Developing Diverse Talent event round up
5 th September we hosted an event with the NHS Leadership Academy to meet with the most senior leaders of healthcare in our region, to provide a safe space for NHS Chief Executives and senior leaders to reflect, discuss and take action to increase diversity of race and ethnicity in the leadership and governance of the NHS. Over 22 Senior Leaders attended the session, delivered by Carol
Campayne and Roger Kline. The workshop was balanced to ensure a link between personal, collective and wider responsibility with round table discussions and presentations from Roger around his findings across the region.
A number of resources were circulated on the day, which you can view here . For further information, contact Lynsey Nicholson .

Invitation to Senior Leaders to join Accelerate discussion
Cross – sector mentoring system
We held a design day 2 nd October to introduce the cross sector mentoring system to stakeholders from the region, including staff from
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Leeds Community
Healthcare, York Teaching Hospitals, Bradford
District Care Trust and Health & Social Care
Information Centre.
The Accelerate programme progresses the leadership journey and careers of junior to midlevel leaders, with a focus on inclusive leadership skills and values to benefit participants, their colleagues and patients and service users. To celebrate the completion of the latest cohort, we are hosting an event 22 nd
October at the Novotel in Leeds; we invite senior leaders to join us for a round table discussion prior to the networking lunch. Please contact Lynsey Nicholson for further details.
Stakeholders worked with the provider to help focus the system to offer a simple and intuitive means by which users can find help to close important knowing and doing gaps. Our next step is to gather names of organisations who wish to access the system; we have lists of NHS organisations in the region but if there are non-
NHS organisations you partner with that should be included, email Amanda Allen to let us know.

Innov8 Associates
The Innov8 Associates had their first meeting this week with the Innov8 team to discuss their individual ideas around diversity and inclusion in their own organisations.
The Associates have been sponsored to cover their time and a range of resources to drive their ideas forward around issues of gender parity, healthy organisations and inclusive and representative leadership. The meeting was thought provoking and a real insight into the work being driven by passionate individuals in the region, with a key motivation for making change happen at a local level for the people they work with and the communities they serve.
We will continue to update you about the work of our Associates via the website , where you can also find the details of their proposals.
Innov8 Fund
The Innov8 Fund closed to application on 25 th
September. We received 11 applications from our stakeholders asking for financial investment into an area of work intending to support diverse leadership, improve the health of an organisation or providing more inclusive services. The panel are due to make their decisions in October, following this we will be able to confirm the successful applications.
If you have any queries about Innov8, contact
Lynsey Nicholson .

The Strategic Areas of Improvement in
Healthcare as defined by Jönköping County
Council
Oshry Workshop 10 th November
One of the elements of our Improvement
Fellows Development Programme is the opportunity for to take part in a workshop hosted by John Watters in Sheffield, it is open to any staff interested in managing the system and getting people on board.
Other parts of the Programme include funding to attend the Jönköping Microsystems Festival in 2015, and establishing a Community of
Practice, supported by George Pór , from global consultancy Future Considersations. George will undertake an Appreciative Inquiry in the first half of October with Improvement Fellows, and we are looking for volunteers for him to speak to.
Please register your interest ASAP with Amanda
Allen .

NHS Leadership Academy Survey request Staff Networks request
The NHS commissioned
Leadership a piece
Academy of research, have in partnership with the Foundation Trust Network, into researching ethnicity, disability and NHS recruitment and leadership.
Please help by completing this confidential questionnaire , which is deliberately brief, by
14 November 2014 . The findings, which will be anonymised, will help to begin to better understand the issues for the recruitment and retention of BME staff and the formulation of appropriate talent management strategies.
As part of our ongoing work we are seeking to promote our programmes of inclusive leadership and recognise emerging talent across our workforce in the region. We would like to come and visit your staff networks or staff development events to tell you more about what we are doing.
If you are interested in knowing more about our offers, please provide Lynsey Nicholson with details for any networks meeting within your organisation.
If you have any questions about how the information will be used please email the project manager Brendan Martin or call 020 3092 4789

Over 400 nurses and midwives from
Yorkshire and the Humber take part in
Frontline
The NHS Leadership Academy development programme, Frontline , has had over 400 nurses and midwives from our region take part. The first
25 cohorts nationally completed at the end of
September, with a further 65 either underway or due to open in the coming months.
400 is a fantastic result for Yorkshire and the
Humber – to put in to context, the national target for Frontline is 5,000 over one year. Thank you to our stakeholders for passing on the opportunity, and supporting staff through the programme. Feedback received formally and anecdotally from participants and the workshop facilitators Hay Group has been overwhelmingly positive.
We want to make sure your nurses and midwives take up this offer while still available as a funded programme. Please let us know of any opportunities we can take to come to your organisation to talk to staff and give out information. Contact John Hunter or Lisa Chan to arrange.
“I did have the opinion I am a band 5 I cannot change anything. That opinion has now well and truly disappeared this is not the case no matter who you are within the workplace I can make a difference no matter how small and if everyone makes one small change the impact will be and can be huge.
”

Regional Leadership Awards – thank you National Development Programmes update
Nominations closed 1 st September and thanks to your efforts we received 155 nominations across 44 organisations in Yorkshire and the
Humber, a 55% increase on last year’s count and fourth out of the 10 NHS Leadership
Academy Local Delivery Partners nationally in terms of numbers.
Participants for the new intakes of the Mary
Seacole, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Nye
Bevan Programmes have now been contacted and will start their study over the next eight weeks (programme dependant).
We will have an update for all Leadership Leads to follow shortly, detailing their participants for each programme.
Thanks also to our judging panel who have returned scores this week, you can view the list of finalists here .
The Regional Recognition Awards ceremony will take place the daytime of 3 rd December at the
Marriott Hotel, Leeds . Please contact John
Hunter or Lisa Chan with any queries.
The September 2013 intake for the Mary
Seacole Programme are due to finish shortly, and we are in the planning stages for a graduation event in the region in early 2015.
Please contact John Hunter or Lisa Chan with any queries.

Now Next Later
• October: Improvement Fellows
Development Programme begins
•
October: Talent 2020 Inquiry
• October: Innov8 Associates begin
•
October: Recruitment for Change
Leaders Network
• October: Innov8 Masterclass series begins
• 16 th Oct : CCGs Talent
Management session
• 20 th / 28 th Oct: Jonkoping
Community of Practice
Workshops
• 21 st Oct: Women in Medicine event
• 22 nd Oct: Accelerate Celebration
Event
•
22 nd Oct: Leeds Cohort for
Frontline closes
• 24 th Oct: GMTS Regional
Welcome event
• November: Inspiring Leaders
Forum launches
•
10 th Nov: York Cohort for
Frontline closes
•
10 th Nov: Oshry Workshop with
John Watters (Improvement
Fellows Programme)
•
26 th Nov: 360 Facilitator Training
• 27 th -28 th Nov: “Manager as
Coach” training
• 2 nd Dec: Talent 2020 Workshop
• 3 rd Dec: NHS Regional
Recognition Awards
• Mid-December: Mary Seacole
Programme (Intake 1) final marks sent out
• January: Diversity Management
MSc at Bradford University intake
• January: Mary Seacole
Programme (Intake 1)
Graduation Event
• 21 st -22 nd Jan: “Manager as
Coach” training
• February: i-Lead Programme begins
• 2 nd Feb: Health Coaching
Conference
•
25 th -27 th Feb: Jonkoping
Microsystems Festival
•
March 2015: Frontline
Programme closes
• Spring: Innov8 Alliance Day