Future Medical Education Leaders Programme

Someone senior has looked at what you already give to medical education and recognised your skills and talent. Recognition is usually where it stops. The roles further up, TPD, Head of School, DME, are rarely explained to the people being lined up for them.

Who it is for

Educators identified by their organisation as making an excellent contribution and ready to take on more responsibility. These two days prepare you for the opportunity to progress in a career in medical education rather than a growing pile of extra duties.

How the two days work

Two days of interactive sessions, case studies and hands on exercises, built on the work you are already doing. Day one develops the skills. Day two turns them into the responsibility and the career step you are being prepared for.

Day 1 

• Compare the main schools of leadership theory, trait, behavioural, situational, follower focused and dispersed, and identify which of them fit the education roles you are moving towards.
• Use Goleman’s six leadership styles and the four emotional intelligence capabilities to widen your range beyond the style you default to under pressure.
• Assess your own personality profile and personal strengths, and work out where they serve you and where they will cost you in a more senior role.
• Apply a coaching framework such as T-GROW, with active listening and open questioning, to a development conversation with a colleague or trainee.
• Build a personal leadership development plan and test it through a coaching conversation with a peer on the day.

Day 2 

• Diagnose what is helping and hindering the teams you lead, using psychological safety, Lencioni’s five dysfunctions and Belbin team roles.
• Apply motivation theory, including Herzberg, Maslow and the SCARF model, to work out why a colleague has disengaged and what would shift it.
• Map the stakeholders and the sources of power around a change you want to make in your service, and plan how you will influence each of them.
• Negotiate on interests rather than positions, rehearsed in a pitch to someone who holds the power over your proposal.
• Assess your own mental fitness across body, work habits, emotions and purpose, and set out your warning signs and recovery strategies before you need them.