For the last decade, Prospect has been delivering its “effective chairing skills’ workshop to consistently excellent evaluation. This one day workshop consists of exploring what the chair needs to also consider in ensuring virtual meetings are effective.

Here is an insight into some of our best practice tips to give you a flavour of how you need to ensure you are planned and prepared.

Psychological research has shown that we can pick up negativity, stress, and other unhelpful behaviours in times of uncertainty. Moreover, if someone in your visual field is anxious and highly expressive — either verbally or non-verbally — there’s a high likelihood you’ll experience those emotions as well, negatively impacting your brain’s performance.

We take a look at how best not to let this impact your own resilience.

This is part two of our blog on Thinking of Future Strategy in Adversity and Uncertainty as Leaders. If you have not read part one, you can find it here. We recommend that you read them sequentially and, if using with teams, do the analysis first, as per blog one, followed by the steps outlined in this blog.

In these extraordinary times I am reminded of Stephen Covey's "Circle of Influence" model which I use regularly when doing team coaching, 1 – 1 coaching and leadership workshops on influence.

In this blog we take a closer look at this model.

For the last decade, Prospect has been delivering its “effective chairing skills’ workshop to consistently excellent evaluation. This one day workshop consists of exploring what the chair needs to also consider in ensuring virtual meetings are effective.

Here is an insight into some of our best practice tips to give you a flavour of how you need to ensure you are planned and prepared.

This blog explores virtual icebreakers and conversation exercises to help remote teams break down communication barriers.

As a team, we have undertaken remote working since even before the pandemic, so we would like to share some hints and tips for leaders and managers in supporting staff to stay connected and sane during remote working and best practice principles in chairing virtual meetings.

For the last decade, Prospect has been delivering its “effective chairing skills’ workshop to consistently excellent evaluation. This one day workshop consists of exploring what the chair needs to also consider in ensuring virtual meetings are effective.

Here is an insight into some of our best practice tips to give you a flavour of how you need to ensure you are planned and prepared.

These tips are ways to keep in contact, stay in connection with your teams and give teams a sense of a shared vision and focus.

During such uncertainty as we are all currently facing in our post-pandemic world, it can be difficult to think of the future. 360 Consultant Jackie Barringer digs into the work of academics Courtney, Kirkland and Patrick, and Author Covey, to better understand how to move strategically plan during times like these.

Prospect were commissioned by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and Association of Credit unions to be the OD partner for the Credit Union Expansion Programme. This work was with 83 Credit Unions (CU) as part of the national strategy to expand the uptake of CU services providing a viable alternative to the mainstream financial sector; the programme was undertaken over one year to support the CU to be business ready for the expansion of their services.

Prospect were appointed to work with leaders, teams and staff working in Greater Manchester’s Population Health , Social Care and Primary Care Commissioning Directorate within GMHSCP.  As an OD partner, Prospect have been supporting these teams for over three years.  The teams have a range of complex relationships across the health and care system in Greater Manchester.

West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance (WY & H) commissioned Prospect to deliver a leadership programme for the Clinical Chairs and Vice chairs of the Optimal Pathway Groups (OPG) which launched in March 2021. It was recognised that there was a need for the leadership development to support the chairs and vice chairs to take on the role as system leaders who would lead the changes required for their tumour pathways and transformation required as part of the national cancer plan. Read more here.

Northern Cancer Alliance (NCA) commissioned Prospect for a second time due to the success of the first commission in 2018 to deliver a leadership programme for Cancer Leads, Chairs and Vice Chairs of multi-disciplinary teams, continuing with the priority for the NCA to develop their MDT leaders to ensure that MDTs were running effectively and following the recommendations for streamlining MDT meetings. Read more here.