Advanced leadership skills

Learning objectives

• Define the nature and purpose of leadership
• Recognise the role of clinical leadership
• Describe ways of ensuring an effective clinical team
• Identify your role within a team and the role of others
• Identify strategies for effective team leadership
• Analyse team motivation factors
• Recognise the link between power bases and leadership approaches
• Describe reasons why people resist change
• Recognise the ‘human dimension’ of change
• Consider a model for managing change
• Develop strategies for leading and managing organisational change
• Create a personal leadership development plan

Program

Program day one:

• Registration and refreshments
• Welcome and introductions
• The role of clinical leadership
• Ensuring an effective clinical team
• Strategies for effective team leadership
• Belbin ream roles and how roles impact on each other
• Motivating factors that can impact on teams
• Creating a team leadership plan

The first day of the Face-to-Face course will be concluded with a joint dinner offered by the SIWF.

Program day two:

• Clinical leadership
• Exploring why people might resist change and how to overcome this
• Understanding the relationship between power bases and leadership approaches
• Considering the human dimension of change and how your leadership decisions
• Impact on others
• Organisational change and change management – exploration of models for change
• Leadership case studies
• Personal leadership development plan

Participants

The course is primarily aimed at senior physicians who are taking on leadership responsibility as preparation for this new position and the new tasks. At the same time, the course is also suitable for experienced doctors who want to refresh their know-how in this regard and reflect on their leadership culture. The workshop builds upon the Basic leadership workshop.