Healthcare Leadership Programme
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Healthcare Leadership Programme is a two-day course focused on developing leadership skills to support the ongoing delivery of high-quality, ever-improving care.
Strong healthcare leadership is fundamental to influencing the way care is given, ensuring it is high quality, safe and compassionate. Progressing from manager to leader is one of the most difficult transitions for both individuals and the health organisations they work for.
Essential skills for being an effective leader include motivating, inspiring and supporting others in the team. Through a combination of taught seminars and a powerful assessment tool, this leadership training allows you to make the behavioural changes needed to reach your full potential.

At a glance
One of the greatest challenges facing organisations is the progression of managers to leaders. This is especially true for middle leaders, as the overlap between managing and leading can create a lot of extra pressure on organisations.
Investing in middle managers is a key ingredient of future performance for any ambitious organisation. The importance of their contribution as they grow into leaders cannot be emphasised enough.
The Healthcare Leadership Programme (HLP) focuses on this challenge by developing leadership skills, building resilience and supporting the mental wellbeing of those within the organisation.
Day 1
- The Role of Managers and Leaders in Delivering Quality Healthcare
- The Healthcare Operating Environment
- Leadership Models, Tools and Approaches
- Sphere of Influence and Control
- Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
- Coaching as a Leadership Skill
Day 2
- Leading, Motivating & Inspiring
- Trust and Psychological Safety
- Challenges in Teams
- Communication and Feedback
- Leading during Change
- Supporting Resilience and Wellbeing
- Developing as a Leaders and Harnessing your Character Strengths
Attendees at the Healthcare Leadership Programme will benefit from:
- Appreciation of the difference between management and leadership.
- Knowing when and how to manage, when and how to lead.
- Understanding personal behaviours based on self-reporting and feedback from colleagues.
- The ability to assist managers in “letting go”, reducing micromanagement and stepping out of the management comfort zone.
- To move managers into situational leaders.
- To give those in middle management the confidence to try new ways of leading their teams.
Michelle Brooks
Michelle is a highly qualified trainer and teaching professional with extensive experience of providing accredited training, psychological interventions and wellbeing services to individuals, groups & organisations, with extensive experience within the field of leadership and management and executive coaching.
Her experience includes over 10 years within the primary care NHS teams, providing low-intensity psychological therapies to groups and individuals and supporting the service in development, quality of provision and multi-agency working. She has also worked within high security hospitals and prisons.
Michelle has previously led on a University-based course for Health Education England, training NHS therapists. During this time, she completed her PGCert in higher education, developing further knowledge and skills in learning theory and effective teaching methods.
