Increase your management skills and gain confidence to handle the demands of consultancy.

Life as a consultant involves coping with organisational change, conflicting pressures and rising public expectations. Our Management for Consultants course can help you rise to the challenge. Learn how to get the best from your team and deal with difficult people. This training will help you to
discover new approaches to managing your time and resources, develop your own leadership style and find effective ways to tackle tricky situations.

Probably the most stimulating course I have attended as a doctor

Former course participant

Programme outline

In a rapidly changing NHS with revised structures and new ways of commissioning services, consultants face greater complexity and challenge at every level, whatever their specialism.

Our Management for Consultants training will enable you to develop your own personal leadership style and be better able to cope with constant pressure and the pace of work as a consultant. This highly acclaimed leadership development training offers the opportunity to step back and reflect on your capabilities, expand your knowledge and skills, and build your confidence as a manager.

How you will learn

The seven-day training programme is broken down into two two-day modules and one three-day module, spread out over several months. In the breaks between modules you can reflect on what you’ve learned and experiment with it in your own workplace. You can discuss the results with your fellow participants when you come together again.

The training builds on your existing experience and uses different formats to encourage you to take responsibility for your own learning. There is a strong emphasis on putting theory into practice, with practical exercises and role playing as well as presentations of theoretical material.

Group work with other consultants from different specialisms offers an opportunity to work together on problems you’re facing in real life, and to share feedback with each other. These development sets will help you establish a strong network of colleagues to provide ongoing support after you’ve returned to your workplace.

What the training covers

The King’s Fund has been running the Management for Consultants programme for more than 20 years. The training content is constantly updated and revised to reflect the current management context.

This year’s agenda covers a number of topics around managing personal and organisational change, including how to use evidence to improve clinical practice and understanding the direction the NHS is taking, now and in the future.

You will learn:

• better communication skills
• how to deal with conflict
• how to work effectively in groups and get the best out of teams
• how to handle change and cope with uncertainty
• how to deal with ethical dilemmas.

Benefits for you and your organisation

You will emerge from Management for Consultants with renewed energy and motivation as well as specific skills and knowledge.

You will develop a greater understanding of your strengths and weakness, and your priorities as a manager. You will be able to address problems and opportunities with more confidence.

Receiving feedback on your behaviour and performance in a safe setting will help you develop the flexibility and awareness necessary for managing diverse groups of people within a rapidly changing environment. This includes an enhanced capacity to lead teams of doctors and multi-disciplinary teams.

Your organisation will benefit from the wider knowledge of the NHS and the consultant’s role within it that you gain from Management for Consultants. You will develop a greater understanding of:

• how you and your colleagues can influence and contribute to the management of the health service
• the implications of the latest policy developments and other changes in the NHS
• financial management of the health service and how this affects individual patient care
• how you can plan and manage your own service area to improve patient care.

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