Courses

Please note our Leading an Empowered Organisation (LEO) ® programme is a development opportunity for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional (NMAHP) staff working at Newcastle Hospitals only

Course description

Leading an Empowered Organisation (LEO)® is a dynamic leadership development programme to help leaders to create environments for high performing individuals and teams and to support professional practice and accountability to become a reality.

Designed to ensure ownership at every level of the organisation for decision making, creating effective team relationships, managing risk and creative problem solving, the goal of this programme is to enable our senior nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAHPs) who manage and lead others to reach their full leadership potential.

The programme is made up of two parts:

Part One

The first three days of the LEO® programme employs a strong emphasis on supporting leaders to develop an empowering approach when leading and managing teams.

It provides a practical approach, containing values and evidenced skills as a ‘tool box’ that can immediately be applied in practice.

Part Two

The follow up component of the LEO® programme is a full day review session, about two months after the initial three-day session.

Delegates will deliver a short presentation on an improvement project in their practice area which they will have identified during Part One of the programme, allowing them to apply their newly acquired LEO® principles.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this programme delegates will be able to:

• Describe the conceptual framework for LEO® and differentiate centralised and decentralised management approaches understanding when each may be most effective
• Define the leader’s role in articulating expectations for individual and group performance as well as concepts of responsibility, authority and accountability
• Apply the concepts of Responsibility, Authority and Accountability to issues from personal experience within the delegate’s current role
• Discuss the need for leaders to build relationships, avoid unhealthy behaviours and achieve interdependence
• Describe the role of the leader in modelling respect and regard for others as a ‘way of being’
• Review styles of communication and identify personal prominent style
• Explore the impact of a leader’s unhealthy behaviours on followers and identify their own unhealthy behaviours
• Discuss the need for empowered leaders to build capacity, avoid punitive practices and establish a learning environment
• Discuss the need for empowered leaders to lead change, avoid problem processing and gain commitment
• Construct an action plan for using the knowledge, skills and tools represented in the empowerment framework to improve leadership effectiveness.

Audience and criteria

Our LEO® programme is for Newcastle Hospitals staff only, aimed at those working at Band 7, Ward Manager level, and Band 6, Aspiring Ward Manager level, and for those who manage and/or lead teams or who are leaders in their own right from across the NMAHP workforce.

Booking

Please make sure that your manager has agreed for you to attend and that you have approved funding to study the LEO® programme in 2026/27.

To book a place on this course go to Tickets at the bottom of the page.  At checkout enter coupon code NUTH – this indicates that you have approved funding to study the LEO® programme.

When you book a place you will be asked for the following information. Please do not place a booking until you have all this information available:

• Name
• Email
• Job Role
• Department
• Study Leave Reference
• Dietary Requirements

In addition, you will also be asked to confirm that your line manager has agreed for you to attend the dates of this cohort.

If you do not have funding approved for 2026/27, please complete the attached study leave form to obtain your study leave reference.  This needs to be approved and signed by your line manager and sent to [email protected]

Please see the Making payments & Coupons sections of the Help and FAQs.

Cancellations

If you are no longer able to attend the dates of this cohort you must contact us as soon as possible to cancel your place at [email protected]

If you do not cancel your place, your clinical board might be liable for the delegate fee.