Advanced Leadership for Senior & Hyperbusy Leaders

Inspire & support your team to overcome its greatest challenges and achieve

If you find yourself constantly facing an ever shifting set of busy challenges and changes, Advanced Leadership for Hyperbusy Leaders will help you sort the wood from the trees. This advanced-level course is highly practical, very fast-paced and designed to give you a superior ability to get the best from the people you lead. You'll develop insight into the thought processes and practises of some of the most effective leaders around whilst never losing sight of the practicalities of leading on the front line of our modern health service. Designed to address the most immediate and challenging issues we face, this programme will ensure you know what to do, how to think and more importantly how to mobilise the collective will and skills of the team around you.

This programme comes with two important FREE DVD support programmes:

• Effective Leadership in Times of Turbulence
• Creating Service Transformation in Stressed Environments

Each of these 3-hour programmes is a fully captured seminar set from 3 leading experts, providing you with insight well beyond the day itself. Each of these programmes is worth £75 + VAT in their own right.

• Gain the key facets of exceptional leadership in day!
• Understand the links between leadership & performance
• Recognise leadership styles and when to apply them for maximum impact
• Develop improved behavioural flexibility and the knowledge of how best to use it
• Motivate and inspire your team or organisation
• Lead for superior organisational performance
• Create transformational service improvements
• Get everybody working enthusiastically in the same direction

MAIN PROGRAMME

• The immediate context and challenges of leadership today
• What is expected of our leaders today?
• Leaders & strategy - the relationship with success
• Ensuring an effective and successful strategic cycle
• Differences between true leadership and simply holding the title
• What makes exceptional leaders exceptional?
• Understanding the thoughts behind the behaviour in high achieving leaders
• Leadership styles - types, situational context and how to adapt your style for maximum effectiveness
• Overcoming enablement challenges - WILL, SKILL, CAPACITY & AUTHORITY
• High-level influencing & consensus skills for leaders
• Overcoming even the strongest resistanc & engaging the disengaged
• Vision in times of distress - importance & practicalities
• Setting compelling direction that gets people on board
• Getting everyone working in the same direction - alignment
• Fostering ownership, commitment & intelligent, proactive action
• Delivering on human need in times of trouble
• Inspiring your team or organisation to achieve great things
• The 7 Core Strategies of highly effective leaders

DVD SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

Effective Leadership in Times of Turbulence

• Service risk in challenging times – an examination of typical traps in turbulent times
• Stress & paralysis – the impact of uncertainty and risk on individuals and teams
• Critical behaviours of leaders in times of turbulence – restoring & maintaining morale, order, certainty and security

Creating Service Transformation in Stressed Environments

• Organising for stability, competitiveness & action – overcoming the enablement challenge
• Readying the people – creating a sense of urgency by understanding & overcoming change inertia & resistance
• Effective change leadership – critical behaviours of the guiding leaders
• Herding the Cats – critical influencing & communication

Fast paced, highly interactive and with a low reliance on presentation. Packed with case studies, examples & discussions. Highly thought-provoking too.

These are other courses that provide a good companion to this course.

• Advanced Communication Skills for Healthcare Professionals