Peloton Leadership Programme
Challenge
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) is an Integrated Care System that delivers healthcare for over one million people. As with many ICS footprints, there was a legacy in this region of poor collaboration and low levels of trust across many of the different Health and Care organisations delivering care in this system.
Programme
CoCreate was selected by BNSSG to develop a new kind of place-based, system leadership programme, designed to rebuild trust across the region and equip senior leaders with the skills, relationships, networks and mindsets to lead the shift towards a more integrated approach to health and care across BNSSG.
The CoCreate team consulted with over 35 senior leaders from across the region to better understand the challenges and development needs. This process led us to develop Peloton, a branded system leadership programme that was built on the philosophy of a fast-moving group of cyclists going ‘Further Together’.
The starting point for our work was to build the Psychological Safety needed for leaders from different organisations to fully engage in the development process together. Community visits enabled us to bring the voice of the community into the programme and to centre our work around the ‘user experience’.
Systemcraft – Wasifiri’s applied methodology for tackling complex problems – was used as a core methodology, giving leaders a common language and reusable process for making progress on knotty, system issues. Agile methodologies (Scrum, Design Thinking) enabled system leaders to launch meaningful improvement initiatives together, bringing a ‘test and learn’ approach to how they worked together.
Impact
170 people have now completed Peloton, split across 3 cohorts. Headline impact data from across 3 cohorts reveals that:
- 97% regularly utilise core system leadership skills on a regular basis.
- 100% are applying Peloton methodologies in their day-to-day work.
- Nearly 100% of people now actively seek out different perspectives to their own.
Client experience
Peloton grew from a request from system leaders for an intervention that would act as a catalyst to provide better alignment between the partners within the ICS. Once CoCreate was on board, Peloton become so much more than that. It generated a strength of shared commitment to the values and purpose of system working beyond any level that we had hoped for, with clear practical outcomes and long-term working relationships across the partners that has resulted in a much stronger system.
Matt joint – director of people, university hospitals bristol and weston
