Thursday 13th January 2022, 8.30am – 5.30pm
Sunday 16th January 2022, 1.30pm – 5.30pm

HEALTH PROFESSIONS’ EDUCATORS LEADERS' TOOLKIT: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN UNCERTAIN TIMES - WHAT WORKS AND WHY?

¹Judy McKimm, ²Kirsty Forrest, ¹Paul Jones, ³Greg Radu and ²Jo Bishop
¹United Kingdom, ²Australia, and ³Canada

Workshop Description
In rapidly changing, fluid and complex environments, leaders need to be able to navigate what are often choppy waters, whilst facilitating self-care, ensuring their teams and learners are safe and essentially keeping the 'show on the road'. A key component of addressing these challenges is being able to develop and sustain strategies that help people and organisations respond effectively to change and crisis, even to thrive.

This workshop aims to provide an introduction to contemporary theories and practices in leadership, management and followership in health professions’ education and healthcare through a consideration of models and approaches to change, crisis and uncertainty that successful and effective leaders have found helpful, particularly during the pandemic. In the workshop, we will explore these and work with you on thinking about strategies to help you be more effective in leadership situations.

Topics include:

• Leadership, management and followership: exploring the differences and interrelationships between each of these approaches
• Theory in practice: how an understanding of key theories, models and concepts help us to be more effective
• Leaders as change agents: an introduction to change models and their approaches;
• Adaptive leadership for complex systems: VUCA and RUPT; how to use these approaches in leadership and management
• Change and complexity: models and frameworks that help stimulate and generate change in a complex world
• Inclusive and person-centred leadership; putting people at the heart of what we do; working with diversity and how to recognize and address unconscious bias
• Identifying and developing personal qualities for effective leadership: the Immunity to Change model;
• Developing and communicating the vision: creative ways of setting a vision for change and communicating this to others.

Workshop Objective
As a result of participating in this workshop, delegates will be able to:

• Define some key concepts in leadership, management and followership
• Identify specific skills, behaviours and activities in relation to uncertainty, change and crisis that promote effective leadership and management
• Apply change theories and models to your own practice and that of others
• Develop and communicate a vision for change
• Apply theories to your own practice and that of others
• Construct a leadership development plan

Who Should Attend

All involved in health professions’ education, management and clinical practice will benefit from this workshop, designed to be applicable to people at different levels working within organisations, to students and professionals in training. The course has been designed by a highly experienced, international faculty to meet the needs of those who are in leadership or management positions, however junior or senior, who would like to develop their personal leadership qualities and improve their practice. All our courses are theory informed; practice driven; context specific, interactive, supportive and fun!