Advocacy Trailblazers Leadership Programme

NDTi’s leadership programmes bring together a range of guest speakers and facilitators, all of whom are experts in their fields.

The programme will include:
1. An introduction day (online) where each participant will be invited to introduce themselves, their leadership vision and challenges. The day will also includes opportunities to coproduce elements of the programme’s focus and delivery

2. Two two-day residential events which will include:

• A long view history of health and social care service and how independent advocacy has grown and developed within that context
• Listening to the voices of people with lived experience as leaders in understanding the impact of policy and services
• National policy history, current and future
• Understanding human rights and understanding how they should be protected
• Exploring your personal leadership journey and desired destination
• Bravery and the need for resilience and rising strong
• Being in ‘the arena’
• Styles of leadership, their function, impact and limitations.
• How effective teams operate (both established and emerging thinking)
• Personal experiences of establishing and leading creative organisations and systems
• Understanding organisations
• Achieving change through both management responsibility and the use of influence and engagement
• Adapting and using existing systems to deliver different solutions and outcomes
• Large group interventions, design, use and coproduction
• Reflections on own organisations/team
• Developing participants ongoing leadership plans.

3. Action learning sets (online) focusing on practice and problem solving

4. Three themed sessions (online) giving participants the opportunity to explore establish and emerging best practice in delivery areas. These are open to change based on participants needs but we anticipate will include:

• Understanding and building community
• Developing and leading radical organisations
• Anti-discriminatory frameworks
• Equity, diversity and inclusion
• Making data count

Trailblazers is suitable for new and aspiring leaders working within independent advocacy organisations.

You might be:

• Managing or supervising a team/s of advocates or moving into those roles
• Contract or area manager in a larger organisation
• Overseeing different advocacy projects and activities
• Setting up a new service or project in your area
• Working with local commissioners to understand and help shape advocacy services
• Leading a smaller advocacy organisation for the first time

The cost covers the introductory day, two x two day residential events, residential costs, three action learning sets, three theme days and all course materials

£2,350 (including VAT) per participant
All applicants will need to have funding in place in advance.

• For over 30 years NDTi has been associated with emerging and established best practice.
• We have an established reputation for the delivery of high quality leadership activity, delivering a range of leadership programmes to different audiences each year.
• We know how to support the development of brave leadership.
• We recognise quality and challenge poor practice.
• Our work connects us with the experiences and voices of people drawing on services, families, delivery teams and leaders.
• We are connected into a wide range of different examples of leadership including, emerging and established examples, small and large, different sectors, national and international delivery with providers, strategists and policy makers.
• We don't just focus on leadership or advocacy. We draw on learning from our all of our work including different ages and different types of work including autistic people and people who experience mental health issues.
• Our leadership programmes deliver value for money.
• We really enjoy delivering this programme, the challenges it offers and the people we get to meet and work alongside.

Fill in our application form to apply.

If you have any questions get in touch with our team by emailing karen.dawkins@ndti.org.uk

Residentials are anticipated to take place*:

Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 June

Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December

*Dates may change