This course is designed to help health professionals and others interested in working in the health care sector (including industry) to understand why leadership is important in addressing health care challenges and how leadership can be developed in and throughout health systems. The course contains theories and frameworks of leadership best practice, and tools that help application of these to practice. Students are asked to reflect on leadership as a process in their current or envisaged health workplace settings and to consider how they can best develop their own leadership capabilities.
The course is organised into six themes which are introduced gradually over the semester. Each class day (3 in total) focuses on one or two themes: The six themes are:
1. Health leadership strategies, frameworks and theories
2. Leadership as a response to challenges in health systems
3. Leadership and self
4. Leadership and others (including teams)
5. Change leadership
6. Leader and leadership development