Overview
Addressing the specifics of strategic leadership in healthcare settings, this course equips you with the skills to use different leadership approaches in changing contexts.
Healthcare is in a constant state of change to meet the evolution of healthcare services and public health goals. Facing challenges in all directions – including demographic changes, rising costs, new technologies, the private-public healthcare interface and the ongoing management of Covid-19 – the healthcare sector needs strategic leaders more than ever.
Required to make strategic decisions in response to a range of changing priorities, healthcare leaders must steer healthcare organisations through daily challenges. This course will guide current and aspiring healthcare leaders through the complexities of leadership roles using a balance of theory, self-reflection and interaction. This will help to develop different responses and approaches within changing contexts.
Delivering the ability to evolve healthcare services and achieve public health goals, our Strategic Leadership for Healthcare short course will equip you with an in depth understanding of strategic leadership in healthcare settings.
What’s involved
- A programme that embraces an active learning approach, you will be supported to develop your identity as a strategic healthcare leader, based on the core principles of personal growth and self-development.
- Taking a wide lens look at how strategic leaders shape the direction of an organisation, you’ll discover the importance of leadership for shaping, defining and communicating your organisation’s purpose, vision, values and culture.
- You’ll also look in depth at the role leaders play in relation to boards and organisational governance, planning, financial sustainability and accountability, managing resources, stakeholder engagement and driving continual improvement. Other important aspects covered include ethical and inclusive leadership, role modelling, personal presence and resilience.
- As a participant on this course, you’ll think critically about the principles of strategic leadership and the application of leadership theories to the healthcare sector. This includes value-driven leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, leading with integrity, authentic leadership and cross-cultural leadership.
- Through deep learning and wide ranging content, you will be invited to challenge concepts, reflect on your own leadership practice and grow. Offering a safe space for healthcare professionals to ask questions, share and seek insights from course instructors and peers, this course provides the opportunity for both action learning and meaningful dialogue.
Who the programme is for
Our Strategic Leadership for Healthcare short course is for leaders across the health and healthcare sector, who have a need to advance their understanding of strategic leadership. You may work in human resources, in a clinical setting, policymaking or healthcare management. Or you may work in an industry related to health that requires an understanding of strategic leadership for healthcare.
Programme curriculum
This course is based on a contextualised approach to learning, with online lectures delivered by the course lead and UCL academics. This is supplemented by reading, participant discussion questions and marked assignments. Much of the learning will be directed through real world case studies and project-based learning from your course lead, who is a healthcare leadership expert.
You’ll learn material paced across three modules over a total of six weeks. Each module involves approximately 10 to 12 hours of content across two weeks, which includes videos, reading, discussion forum activities and project assignments. A weekly session with the course lead also brings a fruitful opportunity to pull learning together and get involved in group discussion.
Throughout the course, you will complete self-assessments such as multiple choice quizzes and unmarked self-reflection exercises to help you work through the material. To receive a certificate of completion for this course, you will complete all the marked assignments for each module, which includes a mandatory discussion forum, short written assignments and a final project.
