Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health Leadership & Practice

This module focuses on individual and team-based leadership development.

• Participants will explore organisational and leadership theory to understand organisational dynamics, culture and politics, policy and agenda setting.
• Understand the relationship between leaders and followers, and develop the knowledge and skill to engage across and within groups.
• Diagnose helpful and unhelpful behaviour patterns in teams, and identify leadership styles, strategies and approaches to improve personal capabilities in addressing challenges and opportunities.
• Use best practices in giving and delivering feedback, work conflict, and difficult conversations to enhance team performance.
• Develop the crucial qualities, actions, and approaches necessary to be a successful leader and explore the issues healthcare leaders face.
• Utilising case studies, self-exploration, personal insight and feedback, participants will identify opportunities for improvement, building capacity both within themselves and those they lead.

Module Specification

This module focuses on developing systems thinking skills that enable leaders and managers to work with others and respond proactively to the rapidly changing, complex, continuously evolving healthcare field.

Healthcare leaders have the formidable and immediate challenge of creating both short- and long-term strategies to deal with complex problems whose resolution requires holistic approaches and sophisticated thinking. 

Building on the theory and practices of module MGH701, students will continue to develop their leadership skills and explore general systems thinking. 

Understanding the sets of interconnected systems, organisational systems, and the dynamic complex social systems that drive human behaviour and shape organisational culture and climate.