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Leading and Managing your Organisation

Continuous Professional Development Support Scheme

Summary

The aim of the Leading and Managing your Organisation micro-credential is to provide you with an understanding of the nature of service and the factors that contribute to excellence in leading service in healthcare through lectures, guest speakers, seminars, readings and assignments.

You will develop an understanding of the healthcare structures and their competing demands, the development of a culture of service excellence, the various activities involved in the analysis, formulation and implementation of strategic initiatives.

This micro-credential – delivered over five weeks – will challenge you to draw on work practices to understand techniques and principles examined to lead and deliver a service of excellence in their organisation.

Each topic has a series of required readings that should assist you in your preparation and understanding of the central issues for each topic. In addition to the lecture notes, readings and journal articles provide the academic content of the topic.

You will also have the opportunity to explore the relevance of concepts and tools in healthcare settings by applying their analytic skills via a course assignment. The objective is to bring the conceptual material to life by illustrating these concepts with real-life examples during the lectures.

Delivered by Dr Mary Collins, chartered psychologist, author and senior practitioner coach, this course is aligned to Level 9 on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications.

On successful completion of this micro-credential, you will be able to:

  • Critically debate strategy in the context of your environment.
  • Complete a number of strategic tools for use in your department.
  • Critically debate organisational cultures and structures in your working environment.
  • Develop competency in financial management for your department.
  • Debate performance management as a fundamental part of resource management.
  • Critically apply the key lessons you have taken from the selected Case study to your department area.

It is expected that participants attend all lectures.

As class participation is a vital element in the design of this module, participants are expected to engage in class discussion and debate in order to facilitate the formation of their critical thinking.

  • Strategic Leadership: Develop an understanding of strategy and how to effectively manage and lead the strategic process for greater service delivery. Recognise the benefits of strategic management and the basic model of strategic management and its components.
  • Strategy: Develop an in-depth understanding of the main concepts, frameworks, theories and approaches within the strategic management literature. Recognise the nature of the healthcare organisation and the importance of strategy in leading healthcare service.
  • Organisational Structures and Cultures: Understand the healthcare structures and their competing demands. Recognise the link between strategy, structure and culture and the approach necessary to lead and develop a culture of service excellence.
  • Financial Management: Understand financial management practices in healthcare and the impact of service delivery.
  • Personal Leadership: Emotional intelligence, resilience and energy management.

Thursday, 11 February 2027

  • Location: 123 St Stephens Green (in-person lecture)
  • Time: 9:30am–4:30pm

Friday, 26 February 2027

  • Submission via Moodle

Friday, 23 April 2027

  • Submission via Moodle

Wednesday, 3 March 2027

  • Location: Online (lecture via Zoom)
  • Time: 10am–1pm

Friday, 25 June 2027

  • Submission via Moodle