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Introduction to management for medics
This is a two-day course that runs and runs, helping new consultants to gain rapidly the basic skills needed to establish their credentials and operate powerfully in their role. It gives a clear understanding of the responsibilities of the managerial aspect of the consultant role, highlighting practical and constructive approaches to the key tasks of management. You explore a range of practical skills, from managing and motivating staff to successfully achieving goals and objectives.

Managing people and leading teams
Management techniques are all very well, but when things go wrong, it is nearly always for the same reason - people! People represent the most important resource in an organisation. Teams are often ‘virtual teams’: the manager often does not have direct authority over all the team members.Yet the team’s needs, roles and attitudes constantly change. This highly participative course helps participants to assess their own personal effectiveness and their ability to influence the performance of the team in a changing environment.

Managing with excellence
Clinicians who have senior management responsibilities but have not been specifically trained for their responsibilities will benefit from this two-day programme. Effective leadership is about ordinary people getting extraordinary things done and this programme will help participants enhance their interpersonal, leadership, management and decision-making skills. It emphasises leading without relying on positional authority,making it a challenging and intensive workshop with a focus on the individual. It has been devised to broaden understanding of management and develop skills in order to better equip you to get the best out of people, by focusing on those key behaviours and activities that differentiate truly effective leaders.

Essentials of project management for consultants and medical leaders
This popular one-day interactive course is offered as a sound basis for anyone involved in project management.The course provides a structured approach to projects based on PRINCE2® standards.

PRINCE2® workshops
GateHouse Medical can offer a range of PRINCE2® courses from refresher, revalidation to 5 day combined foundation and practitioner.

Presenting and speaking with impact
Being able to present your ideas and arguments clearly and powerfully is a vital skill at whatever stage you are at in your career. Whether leading a team or presenting at meetings and conferences the ability to seize the moment and speak with power and passion is a skill which can be learnt. This practical workshop offers you plenty of tricks of the trade and the opportunity to hone your skills in a constructive atmosphere. Tips and tools will also help your teaching technique.

Effective persuading and influencing skills
Increasingly managers need to influence not only those who work directly for them, but also those over whom they have no authority. For those managers to succeed in an increasingly complex environment they need to have a range of influencing skills at their fingertips to draw on to match the circumstances they face.

Achieving personal impact: how to create your brand
This one-day course is designed for people who wish to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve successful impact through developing their personal brand.

Assert yourself
Being assertive is about being decisive and self-confident. Delegates on this one-day course will gain an understanding of the meaning and relevance of assertive behaviour, and will learn to distinguish between behaviour that is assertive and behaviour that is passive or aggressive.This course will benefit people who need to be more assertive in their dealings with people at work. It covers understanding your behaviour and the effect it has on others and personal growth and confidence. It helps you deal with difficult situations and difficult people more easily and gives you an understanding of how to gain co-operation from those who are reluctant to help.

Handling people and performance problems
It can be difficult to approach an employee or colleague about an attitude or performance problem.Trying to change attitudes is never easy, but it can be a lot less stressful if you have developed consistent and proven techniques to do so.This one-day course will give you confidence to have those difficult conversations and so enhance your management effectiveness and your credibility as a leader.

Finance Skills for Clinical Leaders
A comprehensive two-day workshop covering all aspects of healthcare financial management specifically designed for managers and clinicians with significant financial responsibilities.

Contracts and service level agreements
This one-day course covers all the essential ingredients to develop successful contracts and service level agreements (SLAs).Their purpose, format and content are covered in detail together with the impact of Payment by Results on the technical aspects of data collection, information reporting, dispute resolution and monitoring arrangements. It covers the behaviours needed to negotiate and agree successful contracts and SLAs with a full range of partners.

Winning NHS tenders
The development of World Class Commissioning, the introduction of new provider organizations and the competitive tendering of services are putting increasing pressure on NHS managers and clinicians.This workshop is designed to meet the needs of those who find themselves involved in tendering within the NHS. It’s a highly structured, hands-on, practical, one-day course on creating an NHS tender bid with the maximum chance of winning.

Creating a successful NHS Business Case
A highly structured, hands-on practical one-day course on creating an NHS business case with the maximum chance of gaining acceptance. Designed to be highly participative, it combines presentation and group discussion with individual and group exercises. Practical examples of direct relevance to service managers are used throughout.

Polishing up your media performance
The media is a hungry beast that needs feeding 24-hours a day, throughout the year. All organisations need to equip their spokespeople, communications staff and senior managers with the skills to deal powerfully and confidently with the media. Whatever the circumstances, an effective performance can turn a potential disaster into a real opportunity to get your message across. The course leader is a former health care correspondent who has been training managers for many years with astounding results.

Successful business writing for medics
Are you credible on paper? Does your writing have the impact you want? Effective written communication is a vital competence for modern managers.Lacking confidence in this crucial area reduces management performance and limits career progression.This practical programme will enable you to write with confidence and impact. Through a systematic approach to effective writing it will enable you to produce accurate, clear and concise written material.This programme will have a major impact on how you present yourself to others and on the results you achieve.

Time management
This one day course helps participants to get organised and gain more control over priorities,people and paperwork. It focuses on practical strategies for prioritising tasks, defeating procrastination and delegating effectively. Participants also learn how to manage people, paper, the phone and email more efficiently so as to reduce the pressures faced by increasing and conflicting demands.

Effective meeting management
Meetings are a common feature of working life. They burn up significant resources and transmit messages about organisational culture. Do the outcomes of your meetings match the resources invested in them? How do your meetings rate in terms of efficiency? This practical programme will help you prepare properly, participate powerfully, chair effectively and follow-up efficiently.