Introduction

Leadership within healthcare organisations requires more than formal authority. As healthcare environments become increasingly complex, leaders must be able to inspire, influence, and engage multidisciplinary teams while maintaining accountability, patient safety, and operational excellence. Relying solely on positional power can limit collaboration, innovation, and long-term organisational success.

The Power and Influence in Healthcare Organizations training course explores the relationship between leadership power, influence, and organisational effectiveness. Participants examine different forms of power, leadership styles, and influence strategies that enable healthcare leaders to achieve results while fostering trust, commitment, and professional engagement.

Through practical leadership frameworks and contemporary healthcare leadership models, this training course helps participants strengthen their ability to influence stakeholders, enhance team performance, and build resilient healthcare organisations capable of delivering high-quality patient-centred care.

Key focus areas include:

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Power and Influence in Healthcare Organizations training course, participants will be able to:

Training Methodology

This training course combines expert-led presentations, case studies, facilitated discussions, and practical leadership exercises. Participants explore real-world healthcare leadership challenges and apply influence strategies, communication techniques, and leadership frameworks to strengthen their effectiveness. The methodology encourages active participation, peer learning, and immediate workplace application.

Course Outline

Day 1

Healthcare Leadership Overview

  • Introduction to Power and Influence
  • Power vs Influence vs authority
  • Sources of Power 
  • Influence Methods
  • Unseen methods of influence 
  • Influence responses:
  • Compliance - Identification - Internalization 
  • Types of Legitimate Authority
Day 2

Powers in Healthcare Organizations

  • Legitimate Power
  • Reward Power
  • Expert Power
  • Referent Power
  • Coercive Power
  • Strategies for gaining power and influence
  • Is influence better than authority?
  • What is influence in leadership?
Day 3

Leadership Skills in Healthcare Organization

  • Influencing others Successfully
  • Communicating Effectively
  • Learning Agility and Resilience
  • Self-awareness using EQ
  • Maxwell Model: The 5 Levels of Leadership
  • Commitment & Achievement Matrix
  • The 3 Lenses of Leadership
  • Leadership Effectiveness vs Efficiency
Day 4

The 5-E Leadership Model

  • Leadership Styles
  • Value-based Leadership
  • New Leadership Trends
  • Leadership challenges in the future
  • Where do power and influence confront?
  • Balancing power and influence
  • The advantages of mastering both power and influence
  • The value of balancing power and influence
Day 5

The 4 Influencing Skills

  • Organizational Intelligence
  • Team Promotion
  • Trust-Building
  • Leveraging Networks
  • Employee Engagement
  • Branson Matrix for Development and Attention
  • Techniques to Increase Employee Loyalty
  • Programme Review and Evaluation

International Standards & Professional Alignment

Our training courses are aligned with internationally recognised professional standards and frameworks across leadership, strategy, finance, governance, risk, compliance, and audit. By integrating globally trusted models, we ensure learners develop practical, relevant, and industry-recognised capabilities.

Our trainings draw on leading international standards and professional frameworks, including ISO, ISACA, COSO, OECD, IIA, FATF, Basel, IFRS/ISSB, GRI, NIST, CPD, ILM and the OECD AI Principles. This alignment ensures consistency with global best practices across financial management, risk oversight, digital governance, sustainability, and strategic decision-making..

Designed in alignment with globally recognised professional bodies, our courses support continuous professional development, strengthen organisational capability, and provide clear pathways toward professional certifications valued worldwide.

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