Edward Jenner: 2 - Leading through relationships
Build your understanding of effective team leadership by understanding your impact on others and how to adapt your approach.
Duration
5 weeksWeekly study
5 hoursDigital upgrade
Free
Edward Jenner: 2 - Leading through relationships
Explore the role of relationships in effective leadership and management.
Experiment with and develop your leadership style and practice
On this second course in Level 1 of the Edward Jenner programme, you’ll explore the ways that your leadership impacts others.
You’ll discover key concepts like power in the workplace and learn about leadership models and styles, how to influence while learning ways to be a more inclusive leader.
This course will equip you with the fundamental leadership knowledge you need to grow the leadership skills needed to take on the challenges of working and leading in care and health teams.
What topics will you cover?
- Understanding different perspectives
- How humans infer information
- How to have influence
- Improving your emotional intelligence
- Avoiding a hero culture
- Leaders as hosts
- Assess your leadership behaviours
- Know when to adapt your leadership to the needs of the situation
- How to share leadership
- How to reflect on feedback
- Understand power and how it flows
- Explore a future vision for your health and care system and consider the part you play
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...
- Notice the same event is experienced by others in different ways
- Locate where you have made inferences and when and how to seek clarity
- Describe where you can influence a change in alignment with values
- Describe your personal leadership behaviours using the healthcare leadership model
- Notice heroic leadership behaviours and the impact they have on teams and culture
- Identify and describe situations that require adaptive leadership and take action with a new leadership approach.
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone working in the health and care sector but has been designed for anyone curious about understanding the more about the relational skills of leadership or management.
This course is for those who have completed the prior course in the Edward Jenner programme “Course 1: Exploring what leadership means to me”.
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.
An award winning specialist O&D consultant, trainer and coach, Laura designs, delivers and quality assures leadership interventions across all sectors. Founder of mtc2 ltd and The WayfinderWoman Trust
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.
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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