Leadership Starts Here: Building the Confidence, Capability and Connections to Lead with Impact. Taking place on 6 October 2026, the day before the ISCoS 2026 Pre-Conference Day.
Taking place on 6 October 2026, the Emerging Clinical Leaders Course is a practical, interactive programme for emerging clinical leaders across all health professions who lead, or aspire to lead, discipline-specific and multidisciplinary teams. The programme covers foundations of clinical leadership, self-awareness and emotional intelligence, communication, high-performing teams, leading through change and innovation, and leadership career development. Each session combines focused learning with practical workshop activities, concluding with a personalised 90-day leadership action plan.
The course combines focused teaching, reflection, group work and practical workshop activities designed for leaders of discipline-specific and multidisciplinary teams.
Understand key differences between leadership and management, identify core leadership values and motivations, and reflect on personal leadership aspirations.
Recognise strengths and leadership style, understand the role of emotional intelligence, and identify priorities for personal leadership development.
Communicate with clarity and purpose, apply techniques for constructive feedback, and develop confidence in managing difficult conversations and negotiation.
Understand team dynamics, recognise the importance of promoting psychological safety and inclusion, and lead discipline-specific and multidisciplinary teams through effective collaboration.
Apply structured decision-making, lead collaborative decision-making under uncertainty, lead change and innovation, and address resistance while engaging stakeholders including lived experience.
Plan ongoing leadership development, use mentoring and professional networks, build a strong LinkedIn profile, and create a 90-day leadership action plan.
Course overview; introductions and expectations; icebreaker: “What leadership means to me”.
Professor James Middleton. Leadership versus management, core leadership values and motivations, and personal leadership aspirations. Workshop: Leadership Values Exercise.
Professor Nazirah Hasnan. Strengths and leadership style, emotional intelligence, and priorities for personal leadership development. Workshop: EI Reflection Exercise.
Refreshment break.
Professor Ruth Marshall. Communicate with clarity and purpose, apply techniques for providing constructive feedback, and develop confidence in managing difficult conversations and negotiation. Workshop: Leading difficult conversations — participants practise “what to say” in small groups using case studies.
Dr Harvinder Singh Chhabra. Understand team dynamics, recognise the importance of promoting psychological safety and inclusion, and lead discipline-specific and multidisciplinary teams through effective collaboration. Workshop: Team Diagnostics — participants work in small groups to assess strengths and challenges.
Dr Jennifer L. Maher.
Lunch break.
Professor James Middleton. Apply structured decision-making, lead collaborative decision-making under uncertainty, lead change and innovation, and address resistance while engaging stakeholders including lived experience. Workshop: Leading teams through change — participants work in small teams on case studies to answer the five leadership questions.
Dr Harvinder Singh Chhabra. Plan ongoing leadership development, use mentoring and professional networks, build a strong LinkedIn profile, and create a 90-day leadership action plan. Workshop: 90-Day Leadership Plan — participants draft the first steps they will take after the course, reflecting on goals, actions and resources needed.
Key reflections, course evaluation and next steps.
Each session includes a focused activity to help participants apply the learning directly to their own leadership journey.
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