Course Specifications for Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health Leadership & Practice

This module is designed to enhance your individual and team-based leadership capabilities. Through exploring organisational and leadership theory, you will gain a deeper understanding of organisational dynamics, culture, politics, policy, and agenda setting. You will learn how to build strong relationships within and across teams, diagnose team dynamics, and identify leadership styles and strategies to tackle challenges and seize opportunities.

The module also focuses on the development of essential leadership qualities, actions, and approaches. You will learn best practices for feedback, conflict resolution, and difficult conversations, all aimed at improving team performance. Through case studies, self-reflection, and feedback, you will pinpoint areas for personal growth, building your leadership capacity and that of your teams.

Upon completing this module, you will have

Competences:

• The ability to critically analyse leadership styles and understand their appropriate and inappropriate applications.
• The ability to identify your own and others’ work styles and values, and leverage them effectively within a team.
• The ability to understand and apply principles of motivation and inspiration to lead successful teams.
• The ability to understand and apply principles of emotional and social intelligence in leadership.
• The ability to lead and manage self and teams in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
• The ability to respond effectively to rapidly changing environments through leadership.
• A critical understanding of leadership theory and how to build high-performing, inclusive teams.

Knowledge:

• A comprehensive understanding of existing leadership theories and concepts related to change, and the ability to apply them in healthcare.
• A high level of critical appraisal of differing perspectives on leadership theories and their practical application in healthcare transitions.
• A critical understanding of key leadership theories, their theoretical underpinnings, and their implications for practice.

Skills:

• The ability to apply a systematic understanding of diverse concepts guiding change management in healthcare leadership.
• The ability to demonstrate effective leadership as managers of change in complex healthcare organisations and systems.
• The ability to critically analyse current leadership issues in healthcare.
• The ability to identify work styles and values and utilise them effectively in a team.
• Insight into the appropriate and inappropriate use of different leadership styles.

Judgement Skills and Critical Abilities

• The ability to identify and critically analyse your personal values, character, and integrity to demonstrate personal accountability.
• The ability to critically appraise leadership theory and assess, compare, and contrast it with your emotional competence and personal leadership style.
• The ability to critically analyse current leadership issues within healthcare environments.
• The ability to recognise and critically evaluate your personal strengths and articulate development needs.
• The ability to critically appraise group decision theory and gain insight into effective decision-making in group settings.
• The ability to critically analyse yourself in relation to working in teams.
• The ability to critically appraise literature on leadership within groups and develop strategies for effective team working in healthcare organisations.

250 Hours

Online : 100%

10 ECTS/ECVETs

Summative Essay: (3,000 words) – A critical reflection on the candidates developed understanding of leadership, their leadership style and its application within their own area of practice.

Assessment Weighting

Summative Essay: 100%

Grades are set from the EU grading scheme:

Scale                    Grade Description
80-100%               Distinction
70-79%                 Merit
55-69%                 Pass
45-54%                 Compensated Pass
0-34%                   Lower Fail

Core Reading List

• Leading Self and Others 1st Edition, Venkatesh S, 2016
• New Leadership for Today’s Health Care Professionals 2nd Edition, Rubino et al, 2020
• Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, Third Edition (ACHE Management) Part of: ACHE Management (39 Books), Dye, 2017
• Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare (The Invisible Architecture of Core Values, Attitude, and Self-Empowerment) 2nd Edition 2017, Tye
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• Engagement in Theory and Practice Edited By Catherine Truss, Kerstin Alfes, Rick Delbridge, Amanda Shantz, Emma Soane 2014
• Conflict Management for Managers Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy Disputes, Second Edition Raines S. (2019)
• Harvard Business Review related articles under the topic – Leadership and Managing People. https://hbr.org/topic/leadership-and­managing-people

Supplementary Reading List

• Emotional Intelligence is Essential to Leadership. Mansel B. Nurs Stand. 2017 Jan 18;31(21):29. doi: 10.7748/ns.31.21.29.s28. PMID: 28098012
• What is Leadership? Klingborg DJ, Moore DA, Varea-Hammond S.J Vet Med Educ. 2006 Summer;33(2):280-3. doi: 10.3138/jvme.33.2.280. PMID: 16849311
• Dual Leadership in a Hospital Practice. Thude BR, Thomsen SE, Stenager E, Hollnagel E. Leadersh Health Serv (Bradf Engl). 2017 Feb 6;30(1):101-112. doi: 10.1108/MGHS-09-2015-0030. PMID: 28128047
• Attributes of Clinical Leadership in Contemporary Nursing: an integrative review. Mannix J, Wilkes L, Daly J. Contemp Nurse. 2013 Aug;45(1):10-21. doi: 10.5172/conu.2013.45.1.10. PMID: 24099222 Review.
• Leadership. O’Keeffe DF. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Dec;24(6):436-9. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e328359b605. PMID: 23090618
• Applying Transformational Leadership in Nursing Practice. Collins E, Owen P, Digan J, Dunn F. Nurs Stand. 2020 Apr 29;35(5):59­
  66. doi: 10.7748/ns.2019.e11408. Epub 2019 Dec 16. PMID: 31840443
• Leadership Styles and Theories. Giltinane CL. Nurs Stand. 2013 Jun 12­18;27(41):35-9. doi: 10.7748/ns2013.06.27.41.35.e7565. PMID: 23905259
• Leadership’s Impact on Quality, Outcomes, and Costs. Roussel L. Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2019 Jun;31(2):153-163. doi: 10.1016/j.cnc.2019.02.003. Epub 2019 Apr 8. PMID: 31047090