Courses

Leadership, teamwork and teaching courses for doctors and everyone working in NHS healthcare.

Our courses are short, practical and built around discussion. Each one mixes short videos from Dom, interactive eLearning and live sessions with your group, using cases and exercises from NHS practice.

We run them for deaneries, trusts, practices and teams, and can run any course just for your organisation or combine several into a longer programme. Ask us about a course.

Leadership and teams

One-day courses for doctors and other healthcare professionals who lead, or are starting to lead, in the NHS. Each includes an introduction to the GMC's generic professional capabilities.

Leading in Teams

How teams work, how to lead them, and how to keep people motivated.

What it covers

  • Leading in teams and managing conflict
  • Interprofessional team working, with a patient case to discuss
  • The Melchester Hospital exercises: choosing a new team member and running a first meeting
  • Motivation

Leading and Managing Change

Plan a change you want to make, and bring the right people with you.

What it covers

  • Leading and managing change
  • Developing your own idea for change
  • Stakeholder engagement

Power and Influence

Where power comes from in healthcare organisations and how to get things done when you are not in charge.

What it covers

  • Power and persuasion, including French and Raven's bases of power
  • Influencing without authority
  • Networking
  • Power in organisations

Compassionate Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Understand your own emotions and lead with compassion.

What it covers

  • Emotion regulation and emotional intelligence
  • Emotional granularity: naming what you feel more precisely
  • Compassionate leadership

Effective Leadership Behaviours

The foundations of leadership, from values and styles to inclusion and your own development.

What it covers

  • Leading with values, including the values of the NHS
  • Leadership and management, leadership styles and theory, and the NHS leadership framework
  • Inclusive leadership, including identity, power and privilege
  • Continuing leadership development: CPD, SMART goals and using feedback
  • Leading yourself

Nurturing Psychological Safety

A one-day, highly interactive course for NHS teams who want to move from knowing about psychological safety to practising it.

What it covers

  • What psychological safety is, and what it isn't
  • Behaviours you can use on your next shift
  • Making something to take back to your team, such as a pocket guide or ward poster
  • An honest look at where your team is now

More about this course

Teaching and supervision

For clinicians who teach, supervise or support learners.

Train the Trainer

A blended course for new and developing clinical educators. You work through the online modules and then build on them with your group in live sessions. It introduces the Academy of Medical Educators standards.

What it covers

  • Educational theory and learning needs
  • Values in medical education
  • Inclusive medical education, including identity, power and privilege, and differential attainment
  • Giving feedback
  • Supervision
  • Small group facilitation
  • Learner support and learners in difficulty
  • Using the humanities in learning
  • The science of learning (and forgetting)
  • Planning a session: learning outcomes and choosing your method

Interested in a course?

Tell us which courses you're interested in and who they're for. We'll get back to you by email.

You can also write to office@seventeenseconds.co.uk.

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