Clinical Management & Leadership for Latter Year Trainees & Newer Consultants

The Gold Standard in Leadership & Management Development

Welcome to the finest course available for newer consultants and specialist registrars approaching completion of training, designed to enable you to make a step change in your ability to be effective as a clinical leader and manager in your specialty. This course is designed to create exceptional clinical leaders ready for the challenges facing them and their services in the modern healthcare environment. It is packed with the knowledge and skills that you’ll need to competently achieve in an increasingly turbulent, hostile leadership environment. There's additional specialty-specific insight as e-learning and the programme comes with valuable additional support designed to give you the edge in a tough world.

IMPORTANT VALUE-ADDED COMPONENTS

• Behavioural Drivers Questionnaire & Feedback - to help you evaluate and develop your approach
• FREE Bonus E-learning – Understanding People - to really develop your ability to lead different individuals
• FREE Bonus DVD Programme - Effective Leadership in Times of Turbulence

These value-added components provide essential further insight whilst ensuring we can focus on the most important aspects of leadership & management development on the course itself.

Whether you are a new consultant already or just approaching that time, a solid development in leadership & management effectiveness is worth its weight in gold and a critical factor for a successful career. If you’re about to commence the interview process it’s an imperative. With training becoming more standardised and competition for consultant posts getting ever greater, it is vital that you stand out from the crowd in order to secure the perfect post for you. In fact, without a solid demonstration of your development in this aspect of becoming a consultant you are unlikely to even get short listed. That means getting the edge. This course delivers that edge:

• Restricted numbers ensuring the highest possible impact
• Specialty specific maximising the insight you gain by focusing on issues and principles important in your environment
• Psychological profiling unique feedback fostering greater behavioural flexibility
• Outcome orientated designed to help you achieve and excel in your consultant career, as well as help you get the best jobs

The course itself represents your commitment to developing leadership expertise but the insight gained will be invaluable for the rest of your career.

PRE & POST COURSE COMPONENTS

Clinical Leadership & Management is supported by three important and valuable extra components.

Medicology Behavioural Drivers Questionnaire (BDQ)

• Understand your own psychology more and how this influences your style
• Gain important insight that allows you greater behavioural flexibility
• Discover typical leadership traps and pitfalls that like groups often fall into
• Improve your ability to lead individuals and groups who are different

Understanding People E-learning

• 3 Guided Learning Hours
• Develop much deeper insight into the psychology of different individuals
• Improve your leadership ability to influence, engage & persuade
• Resolve conflict more easily
• Create consensus and stimulate action more effectively

Effective Leadership in Times of Turbulence DVD

• 3 Learning Hours - 3 important topics
• 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
• Full video & audio capture of live programme, complete with slides

DELIVERED PROGRAMME

The NHS Today and Strategic Service Imperatives

• Our NHS – past, present & evolving future
• Understanding the changing landscape
• Different providers types – opportunities and threats
• The changing balance of power and how this affects you
• Core principles underpinning the modern NHS
• Developing strategic insight & visioning
• Issues arising out of the current environment
• Strategic service imperatives
• Understanding the critical success factors for services today
• The 6 Core Components of Clinical Business Excellence

The Evolving Nature of Consultanthood

• The role of the consultant in the modern health serviceDefining the key challenges facing consultants today
• Key transitions necessary for approaching & new consultants
• Critical issues in job planning & self-management
• Engaging in the business of health
• Principles of trust and probity
• Understanding Trust priorities, their drivers and impacts
• Balancing clinical, service and fiscal priorities
• The 5 core roles of the consultant
• Defining critical success factors for the core roles
• Qualities & skills for success in each role
• Developing presence as a new leader

Leadership - Clinical and Service

• The responsibilities of effective leadership
• Understanding leadership models and frameworks
• Medical Leadership Competency Framework
• Leadership Qualities Framework
• NHS Leadership Framework
• Leadership styles, qualities & approaches
• The 6 Core Components of Effective Leadership
• Inspiring Trust & Confidence
• Clarifying Direction & Purpose
• Aligning Systems & Processes
• Understanding People
• Releasing Potential
• Influencing, Communication & Engagement
• Behaviour, emotions & meaning – the currency of leadership
• Creating the right environment to maintain morale and motivation
• Fostering commitment and proactivity
• Enabling people, teams and services to succeed

Ambassadorship & Service to Others

• Understanding & demonstrating ambassadorship towards your team, your Trust and specialty
• Defining the stakeholders in modern health – stakeholder mapping
• Understanding and rationalising differing priorities
• Working effectively with Primary Care & Commissioners
• Principles of the patient as stakeholder
• Understanding the patient agenda
• Choice and how this is evolving
• Patient experience and its growing link to service funding
• The principles of experience from the patient’s perspective

Management of Others, Inc. Performance Management

• Core principles in management
• Modern Mintzberg - Comprehensive management framework
• Management planning – the art of getting things done
• Creating and deploying a strong team
• Fostering high performance team environments
• 10 facets of team effectiveness
• Management by exception – creating room for you to lead
• Management communication skills & influencing
• Essential delegation skills
• Core principles in performance management
• Essential performance management frameworks
• Giving feedback constructively
• Escalating performance issues

Your Ongoing Journey

• Between now, consultanthood and the early years
• Prioritising the immediate learning journey
• Understanding yourself – the impact of your wiring
• Self diagnostics – developing insight and self awareness
• Knowing your traps & natural pitfalls
• Key pitfalls facing newer consultants and how to avoid them
• The importance of work-life balance and the impact of responsibility
• Self support mechanisms - balancing self-reliance with support
• Taking responsibility for development of self

This extremely comprehensive course is a fast-paced mixture of lectures, exercises, case studies, discussions and reflection, coupled with an opportunity to gain tremendous insight into self. The wide variety of learning approaches are designed to embed the core principles whilst ensuring that you know how to apply them practically.

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

• Consultant Interview Skills