Master Class for Senior Educators - Communicating with Professionals

Overview

An academic series of expert classes mainly held at Deanery House in Bristol on topical and emerging areas of importance in medical education for Postgraduate Medical Education. They are open to HEE Southwest, Postgraduate Medical Educational Teams, Educators in Trusts and GP Trainers. Global and nationally important speakers and subject experts are sought and invited.

Aim

A programme of faculty development for senior educators in the Severn and Peninsula to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

 

Reasons for offering this Master Class:

Keeping teams and individuals motivated and energised is a key task of leadership and quite a challenge in todays NHS.  This master class brings us up to date with research and thinking in this area, and will challenge us to improve how we lead our own educational and clinical teams.

Speaker details:

Colette Dorward joined the National Trust two years ago after 25 years in management consultancy. Early on in her career she co-founded a firm called Smythe Dorward Lambert which grew into a major specialist consultancy in organisational communication and cultural change. Initially based in London, she developed the firm across Europe and opened offices in the USA. Smythe Dorward Lambert also funded the first chair in Organisation Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London. Colette left the company 10 years ago, after completing its sale to a large international group, and worked as senior partner for New-York based leadership and change consultancy Mercer Delta, latterly founding their London practice. She has been lucky to work for a very broad range of clients – from Marks & Spencer to Unilever – which has taken her all round the world. The National Trust’s internal consultancy was created in 2010 as a national network of 500-plus professional in disciplines as varied as archaeology and rural surveying to marketing and volunteer management.

Aim of this master class:

To explore how we could communicate much more effectively as a large group of educational professionals and understand what current best practice is in organisational communication processes

Objectives:

• List the challenges we face to communicating effectively as a collaborative and networked team of diverse professionals
• Outline best practice in communicating within a large and multi-faceted organisation
• Summarise what communicating well involves including how to share information, raise key issues and explore these in an interactive way
• List the main blocks to good communication across and within the Deanery and outline actions to improve communications

 

To book a place please contact Tracy Baudains.  When contacting Tracy please confirm the event title and the date you are interested in attending.