This course is part of the Team Building and Transformational Leadership: How to Get Ahead in Healthcare Leadership and Management ExpertTrack
Leadership Training in Healthcare: How to Build Resilience and Personal Development
Discover how global leadership development methods and a personal development plan can make you a better leader in healthcare.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
5 hours100% online
How it worksIncluded in an ExpertTrack
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Leadership Training in Healthcare: How to Build Resilience and Personal Development
Recognising the need for leadership development whilst nurturing new leaders
What are the key still required by future leaders of the 21st century? And how can you improve your understanding of the responsibilities of today’s health service leaders?
This self-paced leadership development course will offer the opportunity to cover everything you need to know to drive your management career forward in the fast-evolving world of healthcare.
You’ll explore ways to become a better problem solver, and how to make more informed decisions. You’ll also have the chance to learn how to be resilient. And you’ll find out the methods used to develop leaders in global healthcare settings, including the NHS.
During the course you can apply this knowledge, along with goal-setting techniques, to writing your own personal development plan to help put your career on the right path.
Organisational development: understand how to use competency models
This course explores the importance of bringing about change in organisations through a holistic and humanistic approach that puts people at the heart of the process. You’ll find out how to use organisational approaches to help you develop as a manager and leader in a global context. And you’ll learn how competency-based frameworks and models can help you develop better skills in leadership – from risk taking to demonstrating ethics and integrity.
Learn how to build resilience at work
Resilience is a crucial characteristic of high-performing leaders, and it can be used to help develop your future career – and help an organisation to thrive.
The course will teach you the essentials of the resilient leader, from coping with pressure and learning to adapt to problem solving and decision making. You’ll also look at how career planning can be used to help shape your future career.
Syllabus
Week 1
Organisational development
Introduction to organisational development
Here we look at the topics that will be explored throughout this course as well as a big question.
Organisational approaches to developing leaders and managers in a global context
Exploring global leadership development methods for leaders and managers.
Using competency frameworks and models
Exploring competency frameworks and models
Summary of Week 1
In this section we look back on what we have learned and what we will learn next week.
Week 2
Looking to your future career
Career planning
How you can transform the academic knowledge you have gained into practical application in the workplace.
Problem solving and decision making
Making decisions and problem solving is an integral part of leadership.
The resilient leader
Adapting to change in complex situations and working with challenging patient caseloads whilst avoiding burnout due to extreme pressures and stress.
Summary of Week 2
In this section we look back on what we have learned.
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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...
- Understand how organisations develop their leaders
- Compare and contrast different leadership development methods
- Critically appraise leadership development in global healthcare
- Apply techniques required to be a modern healthcare leader
- Apply goal setting and Personal Development Planning principles
Who is the course for?
This ExpertTrack is designed for students or healthcare professionals, administrators wishing to progress into middle or senior management roles, as well as policy makers, executives, consultants, and service providers in the health sector.
Who developed the course?
Coventry University
Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.
Established
1992Location
Coventry
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