Bastas Academy for Health Leadership

Who should attend

All leaders, emerging or experienced, within an organisation.

Course outcomes

• Develop a strong understanding of leadership styles and their application in healthcare settings.
• Develop an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities of leading in health setting, including collaborating across the sector.
• Evaluate and apply diverse leadership styles to effectively manage teams and address complex challenges in healthcare settings.
• Cultivate a personal leadership style that incorporates emotional intelligence, reflection and authenticity, tailored to the unique characteristics of healthcare environments.
• Analyse the interplay between public and private health sectors to inform strategic decision-making in healthcare leadership.
• Synthesise knowledge of healthcare policy, economics, and management to make informed leadership decisions and drive organisational success.

Topics

Build a leadership toolkit to guide teams confidently in healthcare, service or innovation settings.

• How to build resilient teams.
• Effective communication.
• Develop and shared vision within teams.
• Improving inter-team working and cross-silo collaboration.
• Understanding and successfully navigating complex organisations and private/public sectors to optimise outcomes.
• Incorporating policy perspectives and imperatives to improve decision making and outcomes.
• Developing a coaching and facilitative leadership style.
• Skills to influence positive outcomes and how to manage difficult conversations.

Duration and format

Three-day residential program.

Who should attend

Mid-level’ and business unit leaders, or those about to move into these roles (e.g. department heads, NUM).

Individuals in strategic or consulting roles.

Those wanting to learn best practice regarding: what drives organisational performance, change management, innovation and systems thinking.

Course outcomes

• Analyse and apply principles of operations management and adaptive leadership to navigate complex organisational contexts in healthcare, including the ability to diagnose technical and adaptive challenges and create leverage for amplified impact.
• Evaluate the macro environment impacting healthcare systems, including emerging technologies (e.g., AI and digital solutions), workforce challenges, and sustainability requirements, to inform strategic decision-making and organizational adaptation.
• Learn how to explore and reconcile diverse beliefs, assumptions, and motivations that reinforce the current state. Apply approaches to experiment and facilitate emergence within and across systems to enact positive change.
• Foster collaboration and mutual awareness among private, public, and startup health sectors to drive lasting change and cultivate healthy organisational cultures, while applying strategic thinking to address complex challenges in the healthcare landscape.
• Demonstrate leadership in complex environments through case studies, simulation and an action learning project.

Topics

• Understanding and managing the complexities of organisational structures and cultures in healthcare and related fields.

• Strategic leadership, planning, and effective execution.
• Adaptive leadership.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Leveraging impact, identifying and creating leverage points to drive meaningful change.
• Working within and across complex governance structures and organisational silos to create great value and improved care processes.
• Influencing change and innovation in highly regulated environments (systems and processes for consideration).

Duration and format

Four-day program.

Three-day residential and one day online (6 weeks later).

Who should attend

Mid to senior leaders that need to transform the system and harness innovation at scale.

Professionals in wider health-sector with innovation focus to role (product or organisation).

Course outcomes

This program aims to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and practical experience to lead transformative innovation in their respective healthcare organisations and contribute to the broader evolution of the healthcare sector:

• Analyse and apply different thinking methodologies (e.g., design thinking, systems thinking, lateral thinking) to solve complex healthcare problems and drive disruptive innovation.
• Demonstrate advanced stakeholder management skills to align diverse groups towards a common innovative future in healthcare delivery and administration.
• Design and nurture a network of strategic partnerships and alliances that foster ongoing innovation and ensure sustainability of healthcare initiatives.
• Develop a strategic plan for business transformation in healthcare, encompassing the introduction of new systems, procedures, and significant organizational changes.
• Cultivate and lead an organisational culture that embraces innovation, fostering creativity, risk-taking, and continuous improvement across all levels of the healthcare system.
• Identify and evaluate key opportunities for innovation in various aspects of healthcare, including diagnosis, care delivery, treatment modalities, administration, and rural healthcare access.
• Utilise a range of innovation tools and techniques to generate, develop, and implement transformative ideas within healthcare organizations and systems.
• Develop an understanding of commercialisation of innovation and assess how it might be used to introduce new revenue streams.

Topics

• Design thinking and experimentation.
• Business case qualification / ROI.
• Lateral thinking.
• Intrapreneurial skills.
• Learning and applying design thinking approaches and methodologies to different complex health care problems.
• Creating an environment that invites innovation.
• Communication styles to catalyse stakeholder buy-in for change, innovation and investment.

Format and duration

Five-day program.

Combination of residential and online sessions, distributed over five months.