Developing Leadership Foundations for Veterinary Professionals
Develop the foundations of your leadership practice through understanding more about yourself and the impact you have on others.
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Developing Leadership Foundations for Veterinary Professionals
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Experiment and develop leadership practice as you answer 'leadership for what?'
All veterinary professionals are leaders, whether you realise it or not. We all face leadership challenges on a daily basis.
For each of us learning to identify, reflect on and practice new leadership skills will help you thrive in uncertain and complex environments of everyday practice and take control of your own future.
Find out more about leadership and begin to develop leadership skills through an unfolding audio drama on the Edward Jenner Veterinary Leadership programme - Course 2 : Developing Leadership Foundations.
What topics will you cover?
- An introduction to the method of study and the suite of courses that make up the Edward Jenner Veterinary Leadership Programme
- Understand more about ‘self’ and how we interpret and impact the world around us
- Understand your bias’ and how to develop more inclusive leadership practice
- Discover how the way you see the world around you impacts how you act
- Understand the role of care in leadership
- Understand ‘power’ and how it shows up in the workplace
- Experiment with influencing styles
- Understand distributed and heroic leadership models
- Develop adaptive leadership practices
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Reflect on the use of ‘self’ and how we interpret and impact the world around us
- Develop an awareness of personal bias’ and how to develop more inclusive leadership practice
- Describe how the way we see the world around us impacts how we act
- Describe the role of care in leadership practice
- Explore ‘power’ and how it impacts how we show up in the workplace
- Experiment with influencing styles
- Model distributed leadership models of behaviour
- Model adaptive leadership practices
Who is the course for?
This course follows on from the course ‘Discovering Self as Leader’. It is open to all in the veterinary world but has been designed with newly practising veterinary professionals in mind. It is aimed at those new to leadership who are entering into the uncertain and complex environment of leadership and practice.
Who will you learn with?
Jason leads the design of national leadership interventions for the NHS. He is a consultant, coach, and lifelong learner - curious about how people can work together more effectively in groups.
Clare has worked in the NHS for all her career, in clinical practice, education and management, she is currently a Head of Service at the NHS Leadership Academy
Who developed the course?
NHS Leadership Academy
Our purpose is to help people discover and fulfil their leadership potential to deliver outstanding health and care.
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Setting, upholding and advancing the educational, ethical and clinical standards of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses.
What's included?
NHS Leadership Academy are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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