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Derbyshire Physical Activity Collaborative
Leadership Programme

The Derbyshire Physical Activity Collaborative is about transforming how we deliver physical activity interventions, through Public Health investment, which are focussed on those who are less active and living with long-term health conditions.
There is a recognition that we need to work differently if we are to create the desired change in outcomes and how we will work is key. Re-designing our approach to physical activity investment provides the opportunity to create a collaborative model which essentially means we connect and integrate across organisational and sector boundaries by sharing the use of resources and forging new relationships.
The Leadership Programme is designed to develop your team’s knowledge, skills and understanding of effective leadership and covers these areas:
Principles of Leadership
We start with the notion of leadership. We establish that it is not about the leader themselves but about creating an environment for others to flourish. We develop some principles of leadership including the importance of emotional intelligence and resilience. We establish why leadership is different to management and begin to explore some useful leadership behaviours.
Creating Culture
We develop this concept further in the context of organisational dynamics and creating a people-centric culture that explores vision, values, behaviours and belief systems, and how the power of culture can provide business and organisational advantage.
Understanding the Sector Landscape
The development of a fuller appreciation of leadership is limited unless there is practical context within which it can be applied. We explore the rich depth and breadth of the sport and physical activity eco-system. We also discover that it is increasingly likely to converge with other sectors of health, social care and education and we learn that health inequalities are a product of a systemic infrastructure.
Whole System Thinking
For sport and physical activity to have a positive effect upon the health of our communities, it needs to do so in the context of collaborating more deeply with other parts of the system. We discover what systems are and how they behave. We explore systems thinking and systems leadership, appreciating that effectiveness in the future will be about distributed leadership and the ability to collaborate and influence.
Leading for Renewal
We develop this concept further in the context of organisational dynamics and creating a people-centric culture that explores vision, values, behaviours and belief systems. We explore how the power of culture can provide business and the organisational advantage.
Programme details
The programme is a series of six in person sessions which are all interlinked so if you book onto the programme, you’ll be signing up for all six sessions.
All sessions will take place at the Post Mill Centre, Market Street, South Normanton DE55 2EJ and will be held from 9.30am to 1pm.
Setting the Scene
Tuesday 23 January 2024
- Exploring the challenge
- Finding the Why?
- Understanding Population Health and Health Inequality
- Introduction to Systems Thinking
Understanding Leadership
Tuesday 27 February 2024
- The role of leadership
- Leadership behaviours and anchors
- Understanding Me and Understanding Others – Emotional Intelligence & Resilience
Creating Vision
Tuesday 26 March 2024
- Creating vision and ambition
- The process of change
- Getting aligned
- Implementing strategy
Turning Strategy into Action
Tuesday 23 April 2024
- The needs of the place
- Mapping the landscape
- System leadership
- GROWing for success
Progress Review
Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Where are we now?
- What’s worked?
- What’s in the way?
- What needs unblocking?
Results
Tuesday 25 June 2024
- Early results
- What’s changed?
- What still needs to change?
- Maintaining momentum
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