Save the Date! May 26-28th “The Past, Present and Future of the LDP”

More than 10 years ago MSH developed its Leadership Development Program (LDP), based on experiments conducted in various countries. The LDP is a structured program for leadership development that ties personal development, real life challenges and work in a team on a project together. The LDP uses a team based action learning approach. The basic structure consists of 4 workshops, spaced about 6 to 8 weeks apart, during which management and leadership concepts are presented and then applied to a challenge of the team’s choosing. Participants come as members of a natural work team, people who work together in a department or facility and who would like to change something that is getting in the way of producing real results in health service access or quality. The participants in the workshops are responsible for bringing their larger teams, back at the workplace, along – this requires the application of the management and leadership practices that they learn.

We are so very proud of what we have collectively achieved. We are proud and grateful to our colleagues and counterparts in all corners of the world who piloted the original LDP, and those who have improved it over the years. We have seen individuals transformed, teams energized, owning their challenges and producing encouraging results. The transformation often affected people both personally and professionally. This has inspired us to get even better, especially where we found the results to not be as strong as we would like. Over the years we have accumulated much evidence of what works and what doesn’t work in ‘developing managers who lead.’ As a result we have produced the LDP+. This is an improved version that has incorporated feedback and evaluation data from more than 10 years of experience.

We learned that three elements of the program needed more attention: (1) we found ways to strengthen the governing part to make sure the program was locally owned and continued (assuming results were compelling); (2) we strengthened the M&E part to make sure the evidence of progress was clear and well documented; and (3) we added more time and focus on the coaching function of technical committees and facilitators or both (no LDP is exactly like any other, and context matters).
Please join us as we bring together those new and old to the LDP and its successor, to benefit from our collective learning in these three areas: ownership and scale-up, M&E and coaching.

From May 26th through 28th, we would like to invite you all: all past, present and interested LDP/ LDP+ participants, to join us for a three day LeaderNet seminar.

1. On Day One we will explore with you what the program would look like and why it is important to have country ownership of interventions aimed at strengthening Leadership, Management and Governance at all levels of the health system.
2. On Day Two we will take a closer look at the Monitoring and Evaluating (M&E) function and the lessons we can draw from recent experiences with the LDP+.
3. On Day Three we will end the seminar with a set of questions around coaching.

Registration will begin soon at leadernet.org. We look forward to seeing you there!