Edward Jenner Leadership for Veterinary Professionals: Developing Leadership Foundations (FutureLearn)

Edward Jenner Leadership for Veterinary Professionals: Developing Leadership Foundations (FutureLearn)

Develop the foundations of your leadership practice through understanding more about yourself and the impact you have on others. Experiment and develop leadership practice as you answer 'leadership for what?'. With this second course in the Edward Jenner Leadership for Veterinary Professionals program you will explore how your leadership impacts others. You will also explore other key concepts like power in the workplace, leaderships models and styles and how you can be an inclusive leader.

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This course will equip you with fundamental leadership knowledge and help your grow your leadership skill as a veterinarian, so you are more able to take on the challenges of daily life working in the veterinary sector.

What topics will you cover?

  • An introduction to the method of study
  • Understand more about ‘self’ and how we interpret and impact the world around us
  • Understand your bias and how to develop more inclusive leadership practice
  • Discover how the way you see the world around you impacts how you act
  • Understand the role of care in leadership
  • Understand ‘power’ and how it shows up in the workplace
  • Experiment with influencing styles
  • Understand distributed and heroic leadership models
  • Develop adaptive leadership practices

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Reflect on the use of ‘self’ and how we interpret and impact the world around us
  • Develop an awareness of personal bias’ and how to develop more inclusive leadership practice
  • Describe how the way we see the world around us impacts how we act
  • Describe the role of care in leadership practice
  • Explore ‘power’ and how it impacts how we show up in the workplace
  • Experiment with influencing styles
  • Model distributed leadership models of behaviour
  • Model adaptive leadership practices
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