Leadership Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals

One of the cornerstones of effective healthcare performance is the quality of leadership

Leadership Masterclass represents the latest thinking in how to drive groups of people to achieve great things. Focusing on both the leadership of self and others, it provides a deep level of insight into current theory and how it can be deployed in the leadership, motivation and influencing of people. At a practical level, it will help you provide strong guidance to people in a wide variety of scenarios from every day working to a sudden crisis.

If you are in a leadership role, whether clinical or managerial (or both!), you will find this course immensely useful in helping you achieve your goals, targets and initiatives by providing practical strategies aimed at moving groups, departments or whole organisations in a consistent, aligned direction with maximum motivation.

Content

• The current context of healthcare leadership
• Organisational performance - the output of successful leadership
• Performance in the context of the current NHS
• Qualities of highly effective leaders - what they are & what this delivers
• What do effective leaders do, consistently?
• Developing personal behavioural flexibility
• Transformational versus transactional leadership styles
• Emotions - the currency of leadership
• Leadership influencing - think, feel, do
• Creating a compelling vision, coupled to direction
• Understanding the people you lead & motivations of their behaviour
• Harnessing behavioural diversity
• Human need and how this relates to leadership
• Utilising human need to create sustained, motivated performance
• Theory & practise of motivational techniques
• Leadership in times of stress and crisis

Course type and teaching methods

A fast-paced course with a highly practical orientation, designed to equip participants with a higher level ability to lead groups of people. The course consists of an engaging, stimulating and thought-provoking mixture of formal lectures, case studies, discussions and examples.