Healthcare Strategic Leadership Programme
COURSE OVERVIEW
The CMI Level 7 accredited Healthcare Strategic Leadership Programme will enable individuals to integrate strategy into positive action.
This 3-day programme is built upon a progressive framework, with coaching and mentoring to develop strategic leaders. This programme is designed to accelerate personal leadership practices, emotional intelligence and resilience, while improving the ability to respond to the transformative challenges in the health sector. Implementing innovative change into their organisation’s clinical, operational, and financial practices.
This programme is suitable for professionals from both private and public services. This training combines key concepts from healthcare, business, and academia to provide a comprehensive overview of strategic leadership and its practical application within health services.
At a glance
How Will I Benefit?
Responding to timely issues challenging the healthcare sector, this programme aims to inspire individuals to achieve wide-reaching and impactful change by developing their leadership practice. This programme will offer individuals a comprehensive overview of current and future obstacles facing the sector. With coaching and mentoring, resilience to overcome challenges, and ongoing professional development, this programme equips participants with the tools they need to succeed.
Who Should Attend?
This programme is suitable for professionals working within both the private and public health sectors who are eager to broaden the impact of their leadership by applying strategy. Designed for newly appointed leaders, or those more experienced seeking a senior position, the programme offers an innovative view on methods of leadership intended to create inclusive, efficient, and compassionate organisational cultures.
CMI Level 7 Accreditation
A CMI Level 7 Accreditation is a nationally recognised addition to your career and professional status, reflecting high quality and excellence. A Level 7 certificate concentrates on organisational strategy, making it the perfect foundation for those aspiring to or currently in senior roles, with a direct impact on achieving positive outcomes.
Course Themes and Topics
This programme breaks down leadership into distinct stages over the course of three days. It begins by defining the individual as a compassionate and strategic leader, then focuses on applying these principles within the immediate team. The programme also focuses on fostering resilient systems among colleagues and throughout the organisation, using systematic and collaborative approaches to achieve broader and more efficient impact.
Recognising of self as a strategic, compassionate leader.
- Defining authentic and effective strategic leadership for future-focused healthcare
- Developing personal resilience to facilitate effective leadership in VUCA environments
- Exploring individual values, and drivers and how they inform approaches to leadership
- Introducing strategic health partnerships
- Building self-awareness to act as a strategic, inclusive, and effective leader
- Developing a personal leadership brand and modelling the way
- Considering the role and fit of the Clinical Leadership Competency Framework and (aspects of) NHS Healthcare Leadership Model
Applying a strategy to the immediate team(s). Building well-being and resilience within colleagues for positive outcomes.
- Strategic design of functional, compassionate, and high-quality teams in delivering patient care
- Exploring approaches for developing commitment to continued professional development at all levels
- Using coaching and mentoring approaches to build growth mindset teams, and build personal and organisational efficacy
- Enhancing leadership impact by facilitating open communication and collaboration across services
- Importance of regional and national networks of support, care departments and upholding their social responsibility – working to reduce health inequality and improve outcomes for all
Applying systematic collaborative approaches to enable broader and more efficient impact. Inspiring sustainable and innovative organisational and cultural changes.
- Exploration and deployment of strategic tools that enable diagnosis of personal and organisational values alignment
- Building cultures of well-being, and resilience at all levels of the organisation
- Taking an organisational and systematic approach to work, utilising resources, and collaborative practice to achieve excellence
- Governance of health systems
- Developing targeted recovery strategies when advocating for equitable and optimal access
- Sustaining aligned individual and organisational goals: working towards inclusive, collaborative, and high-functioning systems
- Connecting service strategy with individual objectives
- Strategic use of resources – expanding primary care to improve local health outcomes, and access, and work to tackle health inequality
- Effecting positive change through service redesign – contextualised by points within the NHS Long Term Plan (implementing digitally-enabled care/ community care/ local funding and inequality)
- Improve ability to develop, create and implement strategic change within the health sector
- Understand leadership styles, challenges relating to change and how these can be applied to the health service
- Governance of health systems and their social determinants
- Facilitate greater collaboration across services and systems of care
- Increase personal resilience to meet the demands of senior leadership, drive progress and inspire inclusive patient-centred care
- Opportunity to build a network with like-minded innovative leaders
- Practical tools to bring about impactful change within your team(s) to increase morale and patient experience
- Apply methods of health financing, cost planning and public-private partnerships
- Focused debate and reflection on case studies and best practice examples
- Gain confidence in decision-making and addressing uncertain scenarios
Keith Straughan
Following a successful executive career in business and education, Keith is now a highly sought-after executive coach and consultant - with a portfolio of business and consulting roles leveraging technical innovation and entrepreneurial approaches.
Keith’s academic background spans world-leading universities, non-traditional university models and further education. He has an extensive teaching record and wide-ranging research interests encompassing digital healthcare, diagnostic imaging, education technology and smart cities.
Keith currently holds Professorships in Digital Healthcare (Vienna), International Education (Kuala Lumpur) and Design Engineering (London).
From his university work, Keith has spun out five companies; founded an additional three and served as a non-executive director for a further eight. He has run his own consultancy for over thirty years, leading him to roles with the UK Department of Health, the Government of Myanmar as well as supporting senior leaders in education, Fortune 500, SMEs and start-ups.
