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Leading for the Future

The Leading for the Future programme is about building leadership capacity and developing leaders’ capabilities across the health and care system. It is a package of leadership and management development designed specifically for those in senior leadership positions in health (both clinical and non-clinical), social care and voluntary organisations.
Supporting participants to work with complexity through Adaptive Leadership working with different approaches to leadership such as Systems, Compassionate, Collective and Social Leadership.
The broad aims of Leading for the Future are:
- To provide a challenging development experience for those in senior leadership positions, focused around their leadership and management skills and behaviours, to enable their delivery of service objectives.
- To support the professional and career development of those in senior leadership positions across health & social care and partner organisations.
- To enable participants to handle complexity, to engage with the public, and to work more effectively in partnership across the health & social care system and wider public services.
To build leadership capacity and facilitate networks for shared learning and exchange of good practice across the health & social care system and wider public services in Scotland.
Other learners said:
‘LFTF made me more confident in my role as a leader within my organisation. It helped me to see the bigger picture and to delegate.’
‘Since this programme I have felt more empowered to delegate more responsibility to others, supporting their development, and increasing my capacity to focus on improving the service.’