What are the principles of leadership and management that will take healthcare organisations into the future – and how can you use them to supercharge your emerging career?

This ExpertTrack offers healthcare students the opportunity to critically evaluate leadership and management theories and apply them to their future practice.

You’ll have the chance to cover all aspects of leadership styles and management, including personal effectiveness, management of resources, and management of people.

You’ll also be able to reflect on your own qualities as an emergent leader or manager and learn how you can create a personal development plan for your own career.

Understand the difference between leadership and management

Under the guidance of experts at Coventry University, you’ll explore how effective leadership and management go hand in hand, despite their notable differences.

You’ll consider whether it’s possible to be a good leader and bad manager, if leaders can be developed, and what the most effective – and ineffective – leadership styles and practices are.

Build skills for conflict management and resilience

How do you succeed at managing conflict in the workplace, and how can you build the resilience required to do so?

This ExpertTrack will help you to examine different methods of conflict management and discover conflict resolution skills and techniques that work, including the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), designed to measure a person’s behaviour in conflict situations.

You’ll learn how this powerful tool can help leaders and managers save valuable time and money by observing whether you’re overusing or underusing one or more of five conflict-handling modes.

Apply the Myers Briggs test to leadership styles

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI test, is a personality test used to help understand a person’s leadership skills through 16 personality types.

You’ll discover how your Myers-Briggs type can impact and improve your leadership style.

The test is a widely used tool for coaching leaders that can help managers gain self-awareness, improve emotional intelligence, and better understand how they – and those around them – operate in a workplace.

Upon completion of this ExpertTrack, you’ll have had the opportunity to review a range of leadership styles and tools, and be able to reflect on your own leadership capabilities as well as how to best develop them.