Team Building and Transformational Leadership: How to Get Ahead in Healthcare Leadership and Management Course - Coventry University

Discover how to enhance your emerging healthcare management career through practical leadership theories and personal development.

Use transformational leadership and team building to improve health services

What are the principles of leadership and management that will take healthcare organisations into the future – and how can you use them to supercharge your emerging career?

This ExpertTrack offers healthcare students the opportunity to critically evaluate leadership and management theories and apply them to their future practice.

You’ll have the chance to cover all aspects of leadership styles and management, including personal effectiveness, management of resources, and management of people.

You’ll also be able to reflect on your own qualities as an emergent leader or manager and learn how you can create a personal development plan for your own career.

Understand the difference between leadership and management

Under the guidance of experts at Coventry University, you’ll explore how effective leadership and management go hand in hand, despite their notable differences.

You’ll consider whether it’s possible to be a good leader and a bad manager if leaders can be developed, and what the most effective – and ineffective – leadership styles and practices are.

Build skills for conflict management and resilience

How do you succeed at managing conflict in the workplace, and how can you build the resilience required to do so?

This ExpertTrack will help you to examine different methods of conflict management and discover conflict resolution skills and techniques that work, including the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), designed to measure a person’s behaviour in conflict situations.

You’ll learn how this powerful tool can help leaders and managers save valuable time and money by observing whether you’re overusing or underusing one or more of five conflict-handling modes.

Apply the Myers Briggs test to leadership styles

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI test, is a personality test used to help understand a person’s leadership skills through 16 personality types.

You’ll discover how your Myers-Briggs type can impact and improve your leadership style.

The test is a widely used tool for coaching leaders that can help managers gain self-awareness, improve emotional intelligence, and better understand how they – and those around them – operate in a workplace.

Upon completion of this ExpertTrack, you’ll have had the opportunity to review a range of leadership styles and tools and be able to reflect on your own leadership capabilities as well as how to best develop them.

Key skills you will learn

• Methods to assess leadership and management
• Emotional intelligence
• Communication
• Leadership and management in a global context
• Critical analysis of leadership skills
• Career development
• Managing healthcare teams
• Coaching
• Conflict resolution
• Managing change
• Leadership
• Management

ExpertTrack course overview

• Getting Ahead in Health Services: Healthcare Management and Leadership Principles
  Learn the principles of being an effective leader and manager in healthcare, including the theory of transformational leadership.
• You as a Healthcare Leader: Effective Leadership in Health Services
  Find out how to become a better leader in health services by developing deep self-awareness and appraising your values.
• Modern Leadership Styles
  Identify and develop powerful strategies to manage the challenges facing today’s leaders and managers in healthcare.
• Team Building in Healthcare
  Discover the key to effective team leadership and the challenges it entails – from coaching to the Thomas Kilmann conflict model.
• Leadership Training in Healthcare
  Discover how global leadership development methods and a personal development plan can make you a better leader in healthcare.

How ExpertTracks work

Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award that proves your expertise.

World-class learning with

Coventry University

Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is the University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

Start learning today - free 7-day trial

After your free trial you can:

• Pay $39 per month to keep learning online
• Have complete control over your subscription; you can cancel any time
• Work at your own pace and set your own deadlines at every stage
• Only pay while you’re learning; the subscription will cancel automatically when you finish
• Complete online assessments to test your knowledge and prove your skills
• Earn digital course certificates and a final award that you can share online, with potential employers, and your professional network
• Keep access to the content of courses you complete even after your subscription ends

Learning outcomes

By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to:

• Identify and reflect your own personal strengths using theory and models to identify areas of personal development as a future leader and manager.
• Reflect on your own values and qualities, evaluating these against the literature base of current healthcare leaders and managers.
• Explore the theory of leadership and management, analysing the necessary characteristics of a modern healthcare leader and manager.
• Investigate the complexity of leadership and management in the healthcare environment, appraising the differences required for effective teamwork.