GenerationQ

The GenerationQ leadership programme aims to create skilled and effective leaders for quality improvement by providing interventions which are effective and grounded leadership development and improvement science best practice.

Through a unique and challenging programme of leadership and improvement skills development, participants will be able to enhance their organisation's capability for quality improvement by developing its culture and environment into one that is more conducive to improvement.

Applications

Applications for 2010 have now closed. The next round will open in early 2011.

If you would like to be part of GenerationQ, you can click here to register your interest.

What the programme offers

If you are a leader committed to improving the quality of healthcare, the programme offers you the opportunity to learn with a group of experienced peers in a highly supportive and challenging environment.

The programme involves 18 months of commitment to personal learning and development through an integrated set of activities:

Leadership forums - themed residential workshops at either Ashridge or Unipart, where we will work together to create an effective learning community, explore relevant theory grounded in the context of healthcare, and develop pertinent leadership skills.

Individual coaching and accompanying - fellows will have a dedicated and experienced executive coach whose role will be to provide support and challenge in the process of seeking feedback, to craft a learning agenda and to learn from leadership issues as they arise. The coach will also join fellows at their place of work to meet with their sposnor together, to observe them as they 'lead for real' and to work on live issues together.

Action learning in groups - facilitated peer support and challenge groups where participants learn both from being coached on their own leadership issues and coaching others. These groups will meet virtually in order to experience and develop increasingly important virtual leadership skills.

Ambition into practice - a significant element of the programme where participants will be expected and supported to take up a significant and deliberate act of leadership, involving others, to develop their leadership capability as they work to lead either local or wider healthcare system improvement.

Developing a personal leadership statement - the programme is designed at Master's level. Fellows will be expected and supported to read widely, to maintain a personal journal, to write reflective papers and to demonstrate their new skills in practice.

Enaging with systems - working with a partner, participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss with key influential stakeholders in health, to experience ongoing improvement projects (both in health and outside health) and to deeply immerse within the culture of their local health systems.

Web enabled engagement - ongoing, self-organised dialogue within the learning community, and engagement with the faculty to support the development of ideas and written work.