For those looking to transform communities and organisations from within, we improve the way leaders collaborate across organisational and professional boundaries, to adapt to complex challenges, design and deliver better outcomes, and create genuine impact on the ground. We work alongside you to grow strong leadership and collaborative cultures.

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Each programme is bespoke to the participants, with a flexible blend of learning approaches including face-to-face work, webinars and practical learning through toolkits and other resources. We embrace diversity of background, culture, approach and experience, reinforced by mentoring and team/individual coaching.

During the programme leaders will:

● Analyse their own contexts and describe the nature of the issues they are facing to determine where system leadership would be appropriate.
● Explain the value of system leadership and be able to share this with others.
● Reflect on their leadership styles and behaviours and contrast these with those necessary in systems leadership.
● Engage and build relationships with others in order to share perspectives, be curious about differences and build a shared purpose.

By the end of the programme, organisations, paces and systems will:

● Have an increased understanding and capability within each organisation around what it means to work at a system level.
● Increase collaboration across organisations.
● Encourage new ways of working.
● Enable better outcomes for their citizens and places.
● Case study - Surrey Heartlands ICS

We have delivered over 40 public sector programmes. Recent contracts include :
● System leadership development programmes for clinical leaders of 11/22 Regional Cancer Alliances to over 800 clinical leaders.
● Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Development Centre. 3 Development Centres: 50 delegates.
● Northwest System Leaders and Leading Together Development Programme: 75 participants - x 2 cohorts

For those working on large, complex projects of change. Our facilitators, coaches and experts in placemaking, organisational development, service redesign and reconfiguration, all have a unique ability to engage with the politics, stakeholders and complexities of OD transformation and change management. We can help bring clarity and consensus to the agenda, and develop realistic plans to deliver real change.

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● Our approach starts with you. Through our engagement and diagnostic process, we gain a deep understanding of your vision, opportunities, levers and potential barriers.
● With a focus on people, teams and leadership, we bring creativity and energy to the discussions, highlighting opportunities and tuning into people’s passions and ambitions. Clients tell us that we make change ‘engaging, rewarding and beneficial’.
● OD and change management clients include Bolton, Salford and Wigan NHS Trusts and the redesign of the surgical services.

This work included:
> Engaging stakeholders from multiple organisations, including over 70 general surgeons, CEO’s, chief operating officers, medical directors, HR and OD leads, to understand the issues affecting them in the proposed changes to the services.
> Supporting them to consider the transformational changes required to operate as a single emergency service across the sector.
> Support to design their OD plan, consider the workforce redesign, and the changes needed culturally.
> Support with the recommendations to help them move forward to the mobilisation stage, that all felt they could engage in.
> Help to implement the vision for the future service.

Great cultures are embedded at all levels of an organisation. We can create a bespoke programme to work with the top, middle and frontline of your organisation to co-create vision and support new ways of working.

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We have a significant track record working with ambitious leaders in complex organisations to grow and embed a workplace culture which enhances both customer and employee experience and is deeply rooted in organisational values. Our culture change programme is designed to support large and complex organisations to create highly engaged teams.

We provide a dedicated Account Manager who will be the single point of contact. This guarantees that all parties are clear about the deliverable outcomes and the best route to achieve them.

The following areas are usually explored as part of the project mobilisation phase:
● Establish a partnership approach between our organisations.
● Agree how we set up the programme, roles and ways of working and communicating.
● Review programme implementation, delivery and clear expectations and timescales.
● Share intelligence about the organisation’s context and also delegate issues and learning as the programme progresses.
● De-brief regularly “what is going well, what could we do differently?” and a review of key themes and evaluation data.
● Ensure profile and credibility by recommending an executive level director to be the visible champion of the programme.
● Take a co-creative approach to bespoke our project design to meet your needs.
● Case study: OCS Culture Change

“Prospect are truly excellent to work with and do their very best to ensure that they work in a flexible way, using a partnership approach to ensure that the best results are achieved. I would highly recommend them.”
Manager, NHS Foundation Trust.

For individuals looking to connect with their personal values and purpose through work, enabling them to be their authentic selves to improve outcomes for individuals, teams, organisations and communities. We consistently receive excellent client feedback and 80% of our work is from repeat business.

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We have delivered over 40 public sector coaching programmes. Recent contracts include :
● Surrey Heartlands ICS: Newly formed Executive Team development, 1-1 coaching and developing the Operating Model for the system.
● Cumbria Partnership Triumvirates leadership team coaching: Team coaching for senior leaders.

“This coaching has been a fantastic experience – I am able to critically analyse what I need to do, which as a senior person is rare to have the time to focus on myself. My coach has a very positive and engaging style –always welcoming. Their skill in challenging, reflecting back critical issues in a way that helped me to reflect as a leader and senior manager about how I was going to implement the changes required. The coaching has positively built my confidence – at a difficult time for me and the organisation. I understand myself more, my strengths and areas I need to focus on to support and lead across my teams and organisation.” Chief Superintendent, Police

For those working with senior staff who are aiming to lead services or organisations. Our triumvirate coaching helps them collectively explore, in a confidential space, how they are working together, what’s working, (and what isn’t) and how they can work more effectively as a trio. They explore shared and collective leadership, accountability, and responsibility for their divisions and across the organisation. Recent contracts include Cumbria Partnership Triumvirates leadership team coaching: Team coaching for senior leaders.

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Within the last 10 coaching programmes delegates reported:
• 100% would recommend the coaching they had to peers.
• 100% stated increased leadership and management skills and overall performance.
• 100% outlined that coaching had supported them to lead transformational and cultural change.
• 100% agreed that their motivation, health and wellbeing and performance had increased due to their coaching.

“Prospect delivered coaching for one of the UKs biggest transformation programmes, The Greater Manchester Healthier Together Programme. This required building a team with the confidence, trust and clarity to make very difficult, greater-good decisions, about future GM hospital configurations. The Prospect team provided expert, sensitive and astute coaching. I would highly recommend them.”
Director of Transformation, Greater Manchester Healthier Together Programme

Our in-house social entrepreneurs and business coaches can work with your local ecosystem to support the growth of sustainable ethical businesses, which deliver for both people and planet. We know how a business mindset and the application of business logic to very complex problems can achieve transformative change. Our programmes nurture and grow the social entrepreneurs of the future and help them develop integrated teams, with collective accountability for achieving change.

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People who have participated in our social entrepreneur programmes tell us they have an increased awareness of themselves and their abilities, and that it has enabled them to:

● Develop their personal leadership and social entrepreneurial skills.
● Increase their business skills and commercial outcomes.
● Strengthen existing networks, alongside building new relationships and collaborative approaches to improving the health and wellbeing of the community and its people.
● Take the opportunity to network with other community leaders and peers to share learning, experiences, imagine new futures and solutions.

“I couldn’t do what I do now if I hadn’t been on the programme. I was matched perfectly with my mentor, his creative approach really worked for me. I’ve been connecting with lots of people who have helped me massively, including senior people in the NHS and Liverpool City Council. It’s grown from me having one other member of staff, to now having six, so I can focus more time on business development.”
Katie, Divine Days

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For those looking to deliver excellence, whilst maintaining a healthy workplace and culture, we offer a range of workshops and webinars to support your organisation and people.

Current workshops include:

• Effective Chairing
• Imposter Phenomenon
• Having coaching conversations as a leader
• Leading others
• Influencing and negotiation skills
• Leading conflict and having effective conversations
• Wellbeing and resilience
• Career management

For those in their first leadership role, with responsibilities for people and services. This programme will develop your knowledge and skills in leadership and management and relate what you learn to your specific.

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● Our programmes are grounded in reality and result in real workplace application.
● They provide balance between learning the theory and putting it into practice.
● They empower people in their first formal leadership position to turn their success into consistent team success and to champion distributed leadership.

For mid-level leaders aspiring to lead large programmes, departments or services. This programme is specifically designed to put your work role, tasks and experiences to practical use in your study of leadership, whilst also providing personal and professional development.

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You will get a clearer sense of who you are, your strengths and development areas, strengthening your existing leadership practice through cutting-edge theory, evidence and practice. You will develop your skills in:
● Change management – understanding different leadership approaches, challenges related to change and your relationship to them.
● How teams work – understanding more about your team and how to work with it more effectively.
● Understanding where you and your services are in the wider system, and exploring the experiences of people who access them.