The Middle Leader program is a professional development course for senior doctors, consultant level and above. The program aims to build leadership capability and knowledge, supporting participants to find their own leadership voice and style, and to lead with confidence in complex collaborative environments.
As a Middle Medical Leader, reporting to senior staff, managing junior doctors, and collaborating with peers are significant responsibilities that bring unique challenges.
In a middle leadership role, you also may be considering the next phase of your career, and what leadership opportunities you may aspire to and find fulfilment in the future.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand effective leadership in complex collaborative team-based healthcare environments
- Develop awareness of how you take up your leadership role and your personal strengths and challenges in this area
- Develop awareness of how you take up your role authentically, and the role of values and purpose in your work
- Develop awareness of others and how to work and communicate effectively with a diverse range of colleagues in an inclusive and effective way
- Understand and have skillset in fundamental communication skills including perspective-taking, active listening, managing assumptions and unconscious bias, practising empathy, and compassion
- Understand psychological safety, how to observe this and to create and enhance in your teams
- Understand how to set up complex and diverse teams for success, including structures and processes for teamwork and communication
- Understand learning and improvement culture, what it looks like and the fundamental role of open and honest professional conversations, include feedback, performance management, difficult conversations and dealing with conflict
- Develop skills for leading in large teams and organisations – include agile and adaptive leadership practices, flexibility, and big picture thinking
- Develop skills for leading in constantly changing environments and leading new change projects to innovate and adapt to new needs and challenges
- Develop greater self-confidence for leadership work and a greater clarity in your leadership identity, understanding self-doubt, stress, and anxiety and how to use gratitude and self-compassion to sustain your leadership practice
- Develop greater understanding and awareness of work-life balance, self-care and wellbeing, and practical skills and behaviours for guarding again exhaustion and burnout for yourself and others
- Develop a strong understanding and skillset for developing strong professional relationships and networks in your current role and beyond to support professional wellbeing, growth, and career advancement
- Develop a deep understanding of how to ensure sustainable behavioural change using personalised goal setting, SMART actions, and realistic timelines.
Details
Cost:
- AMA member $3850 (incl. GST), only available to AMA members.
Disclaimer: Please note, once you click 'Register now' you will be leaving the AMA’s CPD Home website and entering a third-party education provider’s website. If you choose to register for this learning, you will need to provide some of your personal information directly to the third-party education provider. If you have any queries about how third-party education providers use, disclose or store your personal information, you should consult their privacy policy.
Upon completion, your CPD activity record may take up to 4 weeks to be reflected on your CPD Home Dashboard.
