Community and culture is the broader matrix for organisational growth, and yet often difficult to define or know exactly what it is. Its development requires intervention at an individual level in how people relate to the whole organisation, how they perceive its vision and purpose, and to what extent they invest in and embody it.

This course will explore some of the key dynamics in community and culture development to empower individuals through developing and sharing a vision of what it means to work together in a supportive, effective and fulfilling organisation.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Identify your vision of a ‘supportive, effective and fulfilling organisation’ necessary for effective leadership and team working
• Practice ‘professional friendship’ for increasing fulfillment, trust and goodwill
• Influence from a basis of ‘power-with’ and not ‘power over’ for real collaboration
• Empower yourself through wanting to contribute rather than feeling you have to
• Contribute towards a blame-free culture and stimulating a context of learning

'I now think much more of the role of other professions and how they impacts on patient care; and I learned the virtues of representing other disciplines.’

Penny Martin, Superintendent Physiotherapist., Wythenshawe Hospital