An introduction to leadership skills and practice in healthcare

Course Information

Start date: September 2024 (specific dates to be confirmed)

Duration: 4 weeks (3 hours self-paced independent learning per week)

Format: Online Flexible Study

Course Description

An introduction to leadership skills and practice in healthcare is a tailored, online, four-week continuing professional development course designed for aspiring leaders and professionals who are new to leadership in the public and private healthcare sectors.

You will explore contemporary leadership concepts such as power dynamics, influence, authenticity, leadership values, change, conflict, intersectionality in healthcare leadership, and develop practical, hands-on skills in self-leadership, network mapping, action planning and peer coaching, which will enable you to effectively navigate complex leadership challenges.

Our digital learning environment means you have flexibility to learn at your own pace, exploring high-quality content and activities. Throughout, you will have a chance to network in real-time and off-line with peers, industry experts, and academics in the healthcare sector, fostering valuable professional relationships and knowledge exchange. The course includes peer coaching to foster interaction and reflective practice and discussion. Following the course, you can submit an optional leadership action plan and receive one-to-one expert feedback.

By the end of the short course, you will be able to: 

1. Appraise leadership theories and concepts including, power, influence and vision in the context of your own professional practice
2. Evaluate your own self-leadership by applying authenticity and intersectionality principles, and leadership values
3. Recognise the different leader and leadership skills required to lead and manage change and conflict
4. Develop leadership network mapping, peer coaching and action planning practical skills

Who should attend

This course would benefit middle managers or aspiring leaders who work in public or private healthcare organisations, ready to step up in their next career move, across multiple health disciplines. 

Why study the course

This course is designed and developed in collaboration with the Digital Education Studio team, a multidisciplinary team of experts in digital education, closely working alongside the lead educators of the course. This is to ensure that online learning experiences are of high quality to meet the demands of busy healthcare professionals.

• One of a kind course designed by world renown healthcare leaders, combining contemporary leadership concepts (e.g. power, influence, authenticity and intersectionality), practical skills exploring self-leadership, action planning and network mapping in healthcare through insider case studies and peer coaching.
• Flexible online learning in your own time and at your own pace (3 hours self-paced independent learning per week, optional individual live session in Week 4)
• Real-life healthcare leadership experience sharing, and practical skills gained through completing your own leadership action plan and receive expert personalised feedback
• Experience peer to peer coaching from colleagues from different healthcare settings
• Innovative online interactive learning activities

How you learn

• Weekly videos and audio microlectures 
• Video interviews and panel discussions from healthcare practitioners & experts 
• Case studies, real life scenarios and relevant and applied literature 
• Collaborative activities with peers and expert tutor-led discussions  
• Weekly quizzes with timely feedback  
• Reflective writing on your leadership practice  
• Individual feedback on your leadership action plan (optional one-to-one live online session) 

Meet Our Experts

Expertise of the course comes from public healthcare practitioners in the Institute of Dentistry, supported by its e-learning team and the School of Business and Management.

Accreditation

We are pleased to announce that this course is currently undergoing the accreditation process for one of the country’s leading Royal Colleges.

For more information on this, and the fee for the course, please register your interest below and the programme team will be in touch with more information when it is available.

Register your interest

Assessment and certification

Course certification requires engagement with core self-paced activities, the completion of weekly quizzes, written reflections and contributions to discussions. Specific criteria for obtaining a digital certificate from Queen Mary University of London are to be confirmed and will be updated here.

Contact Us

If you have any enquiries or questions regarding the course, get in touch with us at digitaleducationstudio@qmul.ac.uk