Leadership skills for future consultants

This is a two day blended course which includes online material that must be completed prior to attending the virtual tutorials. The online material is available through Brightspace.

The first day of the tutorials is designed to introduce the concept of leadership in a clinical context, increasing self-awareness of strengths and limitations, leadership challenges as well as how company culture and strategy impact leadership.

The second day of the tutorials refers to quality improvement, quality in healthcare and how quality improvement and leadership are linked. It also looks at leaders as risk managers, the difference between mentoring and coaching and how immunity to change impacts leadership.

What you will learn

On completion of this course, you will be able to

• Increase your self-awareness and identify key strengths and weaknesses
• Influence others effectively
• Negotiate effectively
• Improve your resilience and well being
• Recognise quality in healthcare and describe quality improvement
• Discuss quality improvement as a methodology to guide a team through change
• Experience quality improvement learning and methodology
• Identify dynamics that help/hinder progress

What to expect

This two-day course is delivered virtually in lecture style with interactive activities throughout.