Date: 12th February Thursday
Time: 1pm to 2pm BST
Venue: Online
Audience: Aspiring senior leaders
Format: 60-minute interactive webinar (with Q&A)
Tone: Practical, honest, confidence-building, grounded in real experience
Aim of the Webinar
To equip candidates with the strategic insight, practical tools, and personal confidence required to navigate high‑stakes interviews — from preparation and presence to influencing outcomes — so they can position themselves as credible, compelling system leaders.
Objectives
By the end of the session, participants will:
1. Strengthen their strategic preparation before interview day
Develop a deeper understanding of stakeholder dynamics, organisational expectations, and the advanced level of preparation required to “architect” senior interviews rather than simply respond to them.
2. Enhance their presence and impact in the interview room
Learn practical, human‑centred techniques to build credibility quickly, communicate with authority, and shape how they are experienced by panels and stakeholders.
3. Build the capability to influence outcomes at senior level
Understand how to read the room, adapt in real time, advocate for themselves confidently, and leave a memorable, belief‑building impression that supports their progression from interview to offer.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
1. Apply a structured pre‑interview strategy
Identify key stakeholders, anticipate their priorities, ask clarifying questions that reduce ambiguity, and tailor their preparation to organisational context and expectations.
2. Demonstrate confident, credible presence during interviews
Use five practical presence‑building skills, manage relational dynamics effectively, and communicate in a way that enhances trust, alignment, and influence.
3. Advocate for themselves as senior system leaders
Shift from simply answering questions to shaping the conversation, respond constructively to challenge, and articulate a clear “nugget” — the lasting message they want interviewers to remember.
