1 free place for every cohort of 20!
Bridging Cultures, Building Trust
Why is this course important?
Statistics:
- March 2023 - 26.4% of the workforce across NHS Trusts - black, minority ethnic (increase of 13% compared to 2022)
- Increasing representation of BME at VSM (from 10.2% to 11.2%)
- 16.6% of BME staff reported discrimination than the 6.7% of white staff.
- Only 46.6% of BME staff felt their Trust provided equal opportunities for growth and promotion (59.1% of white staff felt this)
By the end of the 2-day programme, participants will be able to:
- Explain the core components of psychological safety and apply practical strategies to create a more trusting, open, and high-performing team environment.
- Identify the subtle dynamics of power and privilege within NHS teams and use appropriate types of power to build trust, inclusion, and healthy influence.
- Analyse real healthcare-specific scenarios to diagnose psychological safety, belonging, or cultural barriers—and propose effective, evidence-based responses.
- Demonstrate increased cultural intelligence by recognising key cultural patterns, adapting communication styles, and navigating cross-cultural interactions with confidence.
- Create a concise, actionable plan to strengthen team belonging, enhance collaboration across cultures, and embed psychologically safe behaviours into everyday practice.
Why attend?
- Be more confident in working with people from various backgrounds
- Develop a richer understanding of how to connect across cultures
- Learn how to build inclusive, safe and supportive care
- Take away practical tools to improve your leadership across cultures
- It will be fun, fascinating and open up some rich conversations
Day 1 - Psychological safety, Privilege and Belonging
- Understand the 4 stages of Psychological Safety (T. Clark).
- Develop practical strategies to increase psychological safety in your team.
- Reflect on your own privilege, and that of key stakeholders and how it might impact voice and confidence.
- Develop strategies to increase a sense of belonging with your team and Trust.
Day 2 - Cultural Intelligence, Grace and Humility
- Unpack key cultural differences of cultures represented in your hospital, and their impact on ways of working (G. Hofstede)
- Improve your cultural intelligence through fascinating insights
- Conversations around cultural practices, assumptions and frustrations, to help foster understanding.
- Explain key phrases and pronunciations from main cultures in the organisation.
- Ending the day with some Trust-specific case-studies bringing together all the learning from the two days.
It is suggested that there is a short 2 hour virtual follow-up about 3 weeks after the course with the cohort to take any questions, share learning and implementation.
Investment
£6000 for a cohort of 20 (£300 per person) inc. travel and accommodation for facilitator.
(does not including venue or catering for participants)
As our commitment to developing leaders in Healthcare, we provide
1 free place for every cohort of 20.