Professional Leadership: Head, Heart and Values

Course Programme Whether you currently hold a leadership position, are seeking to fulfil such a position in the future or wish to enhance your leadership skills, this highly interactive and inspirational course will help you to advance your skills in leading people, groups, and organisations enabling you to handle difficult non-clinical problems which commonly arise in your everyday life.  Ethics will be a key theme throughout. The course aims not to be too ‘clinical’; rather to explore the core values of leadership of people, and inspire absolutely the best performance from participants and their teams.  Its uniqueness is that it will touch both the intellect and emotions, drawing on tested academic behavioural models as well as stories from the extreme, ever-changing and often dangerous environment of the high mountains, where people and their values are tested to the limit. The course will run from 28-29 November 2016 MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER … Continue reading "Professional Leadership: Head, Heart and Values"
Course Programme

Whether you currently hold a leadership position, are seeking to fulfil such a position in the future or wish to enhance your leadership skills, this highly interactive and inspirational course will help you to advance your skills in leading people, groups, and organisations enabling you to handle difficult non-clinical problems which commonly arise in your everyday life.  Ethics will be a key theme throughout.

The course aims not to be too ‘clinical’; rather to explore the core values of leadership of people, and inspire absolutely the best performance from participants and their teams.  Its uniqueness is that it will touch both the intellect and emotions, drawing on tested academic behavioural models as well as stories from the extreme, ever-changing and often dangerous environment of the high mountains, where people and their values are tested to the limit.

The course will run from 28-29 November 2016

MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER
09:00 Welcome and introduction  
09:10 Hospital leadership in an ever-changing world
11:00 Break
11:30 Everest 1996 Case Study: Exploring leadership, meaning of ‘team’ and triage on the mountain  
13:00 Lunch  
14:00 Values under pressure
– What makes a high performing team?
– Threats to the team
15:30 Emotional intelligence and authenticity
Examining the four pillars of emotional intelligence (EI):
– Self-awareness
– Self-management
– Awareness of others
– Relationship management
 
17:30 Questions and conclusion  
TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER
09:00 Welcome and summary of Day 1  
09:10 In the ‘Fish Bowl’
Delegates are encouraged to raise any leadership/self-awareness issues with the course facillitator, Rebecca Stephens
10:30 Break  
11:00 Ethical Decision Making
– The principled conscience approach
– The social conscience approach
– The rule compliant approach
Practical examples, ethical dilemmas
12:00 Political Savvy Workshop
This workshop is designed to equip and encourage individuals to steer a course around organisational barriers and engage actively in the political sphere in an ethical and systematic way
 
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Political Savvy Workshop (continued)  
15:00 Political Savvy coaching  
16:00 Summary and close
READING MATERIAL

1. Seven Summits of Success (Rebecca Stephens, Robert Heller)
2. Political Savvy (Prof De Luca)
3. Inspirational Leadership (Roger Delves)

COURSE INFORMATION

Date/Duration
28-29 November 2016 (2 day course)

Location
Windsor, UK

Course Director/s
Rebecca Stephens MBE & Roger Delves

Course Overview
Topics:

  • Exploring Leadership and the Meaning of the ‘Team’
  • Values under Pressure
  • Emotional Intelligence and Authenticity
  • The Fish Bowl
  • Ethical Decision-Making
  • Political Savvy Workshop and Coaching*

*Designed to steer a course around organisational barriers and engage actively in the political sphere in an ethical and systematic way

Course Format
This is a two day highly interactive course with the objective of increasing self-awareness and developing leadership skills for the benefit of the individual, the team, and most importantly, the patient.

In addition to the Course facilitators, Rebecca Stephens and Roger Delves, two leading European cardio-thoracic surgeons will share their individual clinical leadership experiences, highlighting the challenges currently faced in today’s ever-changing hospital environments.

Course Fee
Members – €600
Non-Members – €700

Fee includes lunch, refreshments and dinner on Monday 28 November

Target Audience
Consultant cardiac and thoracic surgeons in post for approximately 10 years who are now taking on leadership roles.

Learning Objectives
To enable delegates to handle difficult non-clinical problems which commonly arise in a cardiac or thoracic unit.