The Dragon’s Heart Institute is delighted to launch its Climb leadership training programme and open the application process for the 2021 cohort.
Climb forms part of the All Wales Intensive Learning Academies (ILAs) and commences in September 2021. With the launch of the ILAs, Wales became the first country in the world to launch specialised academies that will deliver transformational training and support across preventative health, Value-Based Health and Care, and innovations in health and social care.
The goal is to empower workforces around the globe with the expertise, skills, and confidence to drive the redesign of health and care systems for the better, improving patient outcomes and experiences, while boosting the efficiency and sustainability of services.
The 10-month programme combines world-leading teaching with the opportunity to build your own leadership practice. With a focus on innovation in health and care you will learn new skills, forge networks and build relationships that will support you as your career progresses.
Taught across six modules, with a number of exciting guest speakers and teachers, the programme supports the development of skills that will build a sustainable group of leaders, able to navigate this uncertain terrain and ready to meet the future, including
- Emotional intelligence & courageous, compassionate leadership
- Trend-spotting and horizon scanning
- Tolerance for ambiguity
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Cognitive flexibility
Upon completion of our flagship Climb programme, delegates will progress to membership of the Pioneer community – a peer to peer network that will give them the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing growth of the programme and community, and to participate in further development opportunities for themselves and their organisations.
Jonathon Gray, Director for Innovation and Improvement at Cardiff and Vale UHB, said, “I am so excited for the launch of Climb and the 2021/22 programme. During COVID-19, a time of unprecedented challenge, we witnessed the emergence of brave and bold people who were prepared to run towards the fire to make a difference in whatever way they could. We saw the value in uniting around a common purpose and forging relationships between individuals, institutions and countries. People in our communities achieved the extraordinary. Climb is drawing on that learning and building a community of Pioneers across Wales and networked globally. People with open hearts and critical minds who will step forward, when the call comes again. I cannot wait to meet you all.”
Len Richards, Chief Executive, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said: “Through a broad range of resources, in collaboration with international partners, Climb will support current and future generations of leaders, equipping them with the knowledge and skills required to innovate through the challenges we face post-Covid and beyond for health and social care to the benefit of the citizens of Wales.”
