Management & Leadership Foundation Course

£620.00

Build the leadership skills your clinical training left out

Fully online. Complete in 6 weeks. 13 CPD credits. CMI certified.

CPD Certified, FMLM Accredited, CMI 

Overview

Quick Course Snapshot:

  • Duration: 6 weeks (start anytime)

  • Effort: 13 hours total, self-paced

  • Suitable for: All levels of seniority in healthcare

  • Format: 16 expert-led video modules with optional reading and audio

  • Assessment: Multiple choice quizzes (70% pass mark, unlimited retakes)

  • Award: 13 CPD credits and a CMI Certificate of Recognition

 

What You Will Learn:

 

This course gives you the real-world leadership and management skills your role demands but your clinical training left out.

  • Lead innovation and navigate change

  • Build and manage high-performing teams

  • Develop strategic thinking in complex systems

  • Build trust across professional boundaries

  • Lead in virtual and hybrid environments

Content is powered by MIT Sloan Management Review and delivered through the Skillsoft Percipio learning platform.

 

Who This Course Is For:

 
Whether you are a doctor, nurse, midwife, dentist or allied health professional, this course supports anyone looking to grow as a confident and capable leader in healthcare.
 
 

Why Choose This Course:

 
  • Created by practising clinicians who understand real NHS leadership challenges

  • Accredited by CMI, FMLM, and the CPD Certification Service

  • Mapped to the leadership and management frameworks of all UK Royal Colleges

  • Learn at your pace with no study leave required

  • Gain recognised certification that strengthens your CV and portfolio

 

What You Will Receive:

 

  • 13 CPD credits

  • A Certificate of Recognition from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

  • One year of CMI Affiliate Membership

  • A digital badge to display on LinkedIn and your CV

  • Access to the CMI alumni network and exclusive leadership events for 12 months

Note: The CMI Certificate of Recognition and membership are not included in the Kuwait Association of Surgeons promotion.

Example Certificates:

 

 

Your Learning Experience:

 

  • Learn on the award-winning Skillsoft Percipio platform

  • Accessible from desktop, mobile, or tablet

  • Easy progress tracking and instant quiz feedback

  • Optional deeper learning with reading and audio books

 

Pricing and Enrolment:

 

  • One-time payment: £620

  • Immediate access after purchase

  • No hidden fees or required study leave

Frequently Asked Questions:

 

 
Do I need to finish the course in exactly 6 weeks?
Yes. The course is designed to be completed within 6 weeks and must be finished within that timeframe.

Is this suitable for junior or newly qualified professionals?
Yes. The course is relevant at all levels and ideal for those stepping into leadership roles.

Can I include this in my appraisal or portfolio?
Absolutely. Your certificates and CPD credits can be used as formal evidence of leadership development.

Do I need study leave to take this course?
No. It is fully online, on demand, and fits around your schedule.

Can I learn on the go?
Yes. You can access everything on your laptop, tablet or phone using the Skillsoft Percipio app or browser.

 

Eligible for NHS Study Budget This course may be covered by your NHS local study budget if it aligns with your role or training needs.

The study budget supports:

  • Courses linked to curriculum requirements

  • Postgraduate exam preparation

  • Discretionary learning that adds individual or system-wide value

We recommend discussing it with your educational supervisor or line manager. [Download study budget application letter ]

Ready to take the next step in your leadership journey? 

CPD Certified, FMLM Accredited, CMI

 

Course Content

Course curriculum

Building and Leading Successful teams CPDwatch Building and Leading Successful teams
Building and Leading Successful teams

No one is an island, and this is particularly true in business. Success is dependent upon skilled, committed individuals coming together to achieve common goals. Building teams is essential to personal and organisational success. Whether your group is permanent or temporary, efficient and effective team leadership is essential.

In this course, you'll learn methods for team building and team leadership. You'll also learn strategies for avoiding and mitigating team dysfunction and conflict. Finally, you'll learn how successfully leading teams is integral in the modern marketplace.

Leading with Values and Ethics CPDwatch Leading with Values and Ethics
Leading with Values and Ethics

Ethical leadership requires more than just being an ethical person. It requires modelling, embodying, and embracing characteristics such as honesty, integrity, and trust - while also fostering and encouraging positive ethics in those you lead. It sometimes means making hard decisions that still allow you to face yourself in the mirror every morning.

In this course, you'll learn about the different aspects of ethical leading. You'll learn how to communicate expectations for ethical behaviour in the workplace, and how your personal and professional values can guide you to make ethical decisions. You'll also learn how to handle common ethical problems and dilemmas and discover how to make ethics an ongoing part of your work culture.

watch Leadership Insights on Leading with Executive Presence
Leadership Insights on Leading with Executive Presence

Leaders with executive presence can naturally engage and influence others. Discover what executive presence is, how to develop this essential skill, and why getting others to believe in you begins with believing in yourself.

watch Leadership Insights on Building & Leading Teams
Leadership Insights on Building & Leading Teams

Building and leading an often-disparate group of people is a formidable challenge, but done correctly, teams offer numerous advantages. Find out when and why you need teams, as well as how to develop teams that are highly effective.

watch Leadership Toolkit: Facilitating a Workshop
Leadership Toolkit: Facilitating a Workshop

Successful leadership in today’s business world requires a multitude of skills and competencies. Among them is the ability to manage diverse teams of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Facilitating effective workshops requires a delicate mix of didactic, proactive leadership and structured interaction that helps teams generate and debate creative, innovative ideas and build strategies for applying them to solve business problems and explore new business opportunities. Effective workshops allow the team to benefit from its members sharing their experiences and expertise.

In this course, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for facilitating a successful workshop, mitigating the challenges of diverse personalities and priorities, and keeping your business team focused and on-task through the use of guidance and structured activities.

watch Leadership Toolkit: Facilitating a Brainstorming Session
Leadership Toolkit: Facilitating a Brainstorming Session

Successful leadership in today’s business world requires a multitude of skills and competencies. Among them is the ability to manager diverse teams of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Facilitating effective brainstorming sessions allows leaders to harness their teams’ creativity to generate a greater quantity and quality of ideas and strategies to spark innovation and provide a wide range of possible solutions to specific business problems. Successful brainstorming sessions provide creative grist for the strategic mill.

In this course, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for facilitating a successful brainstorming session. You’ll also learn about leading your team through productive activities, handling diverse personalities and priorities, and keeping your business team focused and on-task without limiting ideas and innovation.

watch Leadership Toolkit: Running a Team Debrief
Leadership Toolkit: Running a Team Debrief

Successful leadership in today’s business world requires a multitude of skills and competencies. Among them is the ability to manage diverse teams of individuals with different backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Running an effective team debrief helps business teams more fully understand both the positive outcomes and shortcomings of team events and what needs to be done to rectify missteps and make similar future events even more successful.

In this course, you will learn specific techniques and strategies for running a successful team debriefing while handling the challenges of diverse personalities and perspectives. You’ll also learn how to keep your business team focused on improving processes, mitigating potential future risks, and finding solutions while avoiding the temptation of assigning blame or abdicating responsibility.

watch The Characteristics of an Accountable Leader
The Characteristics of an Accountable Leader
Leading through Shared Vision CPDwatch Leading through Shared Vision
Leading through Shared Vision

A powerful vision, clearly articulated, motivates people to act and drives business results. In this course, you'll learn how to create and communicate a realistic and actionable vision that inspires commitment from people.

watch Evaluating Your Management Style
Evaluating Your Management Style
watch The Adaptive Leader: Be an Iceberg
The Adaptive Leader: Be an Iceberg

When you’re deep in a situation, you’re an actor in a play. Step outside and watch the play. Turn it into learning. Shift your mindset. Imagine you’re an iceberg. Look at yourself under the water. Then lower the water line so others can see you there and adapt with you.

The Collaborative Leader CPDwatch The Collaborative Leader
The Collaborative Leader

In today's business world, working together is key to success. In this course, you'll learn how to lead collaboratively, improve collaboration in your team, and reach across boundaries to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

Leading through Problem Solving and Decision Making CPDwatch Leading through Problem Solving and Decision Making
Leading through Problem Solving and Decision Making

The hallmark of leadership is being able to work through problems and make tough decisions using the skills and experience of your team. In this course, you'll learn how to use a three-stage approach to engage your team in this effort.

watch Leadership Insights on Leading Diversity
Leadership Insights on Leading Diversity

Diversity is good for business. It drives innovation and delivers results that create a competitive advantage. But to do all this, diversity has to be more than a compliance checklist. Leaders must put a premium on values and individuality.

watch Leadership Insights on Judgment and Decisiveness
Leadership Insights on Judgment and Decisiveness

Good decision making is about knowing which decision style to use, how to assess risk most effectively, and taking the path with the greatest value—and then communicating that decision the right way. Make decisions that make a difference!

Leading with Judgment and Decisiveness CPDwatch Leading with Judgment and Decisiveness
Leading with Judgment and Decisiveness

Judgment and decisiveness enable leaders to make the right decisions, even when circumstances are challenging. In this course, you'll learn skills to help you make and execute decisions more effectively, by yourself and with your team.

Accountable Leadership CPDwatch Accountable Leadership
Accountable Leadership

Accountability is about taking ownership of your own actions, behaviours, and decision-making. In today's large, often massive organisations, it can be tempting to pass the buck and duck responsibility. An accountable leader, on the other hand, is one that says and does what they say they will, ensuring accountability to their team and the organisation.

In this course, you'll learn about building accountability in your teams, demonstrating your own willingness to be accountable especially when things go wrong, and fostering an environment of accountability in those you work with.

watch Leadership Insights on Being Accountable
Leadership Insights on Being Accountable

The accountable leader lets go of responsibility and delegates effectively. Learn about the five key levels of accountability, holding individuals accountable to the team, and overcoming obstacles to cultivate a culture of accountability.

watch Expert Insights on Networking & Building Relationships
Expert Insights on Networking & Building Relationships

There’s a lot of talk about the significance of networking. And while we may think we know what it is and how to do it, there is an art to building and sustaining these important relationships. It’s time to unleash your hidden talent.

watch Building Your Professional Network
Building Your Professional Network

When you're serious about advancing your career, you need to build strong professional relationships and maintain an effective network of contacts.

Whether it's for executive networking or general business networking, this course covers the essential communication and professional networking skills needed to establish a solid network. It includes strategies for building rapport with new contacts during networking opportunities and covers best practices for maintaining your network so that business contacts can help you achieve your career goals.

watch Leadership Insights on Networking with your Peers
Leadership Insights on Networking with your Peers

Rome wasn’t built in a day, nor by one person. To attain excellence, you need a network. Start by reaching out to people who are not like you and extend a sincere offer to help. Improve your networking skills with these essential tips.

watch Networking to Improve Leadership Effectiveness
Networking to Improve Leadership Effectiveness

It's not all about who you know, but some of it is. Just as having a strong team is key to leadership success, so is proper networking. As a leader, it’s important to develop and maintain your own effective networks. It's also in your best interest to mentor and encourage your team as they develop their own.

In this course, you’ll learn how professional networking can improve your effectiveness as a leader. You’ll also learn how to assess your business networking efforts and utilize them to ensure they’re working for you. Finally, you’ll learn about the types of social skills needed for executive networking and how to establish a network identity and ensure its authenticity.

watch Empowering Employees
Empowering Employees

A truck driver on a Formula One team had an idea that led to their winning the French Grand Prix, despite obstacles that leaders first put in his way. We must recognise that every employee has huge potential. The leader’s job is to unleash that potential.

read MIT Sloan Management Review on New Leader Transitions
MIT Sloan Management Review on New Leader Transitions

How do you transition into an effective leader? How do you overcome the struggles that come with change?
In this collection of articles, you'll learn:
• more about what it takes to become an effective leader
• the importance of collaboration
• the importance of lifelong learning
• how corporate culture will evolve
• what makes working remotely a viable option
• how to adjust a rapidly changing business landscape

read All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence
All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence

The book that cracks the code on executive presence: what it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it.

read MIT Sloan Management Review on The Adaptive Leader
MIT Sloan Management Review on The Adaptive Leader

How do you lead your company in times of change? What can your company do to keep up with rapid technological advancements? Are you prepared for a digitized age, able to respond quickly and flexibly?

read MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Looking for Opportunity in the Midst of Crisis
MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Looking for Opportunity in the Midst of Crisis
read Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect like a CEO, Second Edition
Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect like a CEO, Second Edition
read MIT Sloan Management Review on Leader as Motivator
MIT Sloan Management Review on Leader as Motivator
listen The Accountable Leader: Developing Effective Leadership Through Managerial Accountability
The Accountable Leader: Developing Effective Leadership Through Managerial Accountability
listen From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership
From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership
listen Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative World
Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative World
listen The Courage Way: Leading and Living with Integrity
The Courage Way: Leading and Living with Integrity
listen Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO
Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO

What people say

Excellent. Highly recommended

I have been on different leadership courses over the past 15 years. This is by far the most complete leadership and management course that I have completed. There are modules for all the key components of how to become an excellent leader. Insights from established leaders provides credibility to the information source. Looking forward to further modules from Generation Leader.

Dr Amit Kaura

Great platform for training in management and leadership.

Joana Ferraria

Great Platform!!

I have just not long started my management and leadership role as a Nurse in Charge in an Intensive Care Unit and this platform has definitely helped my development, with very up-to-date and extremely interesting content adjusted to all levels of experience.

Great experience altogether!

Very interesting courses made available as well as many resources! Staff is very helpful and replies very quickly! Delighted

Rachel

Very resourceful platform

Great platform for training in management and leadership. Amazing content!

Ricardo Nogueira Marques

The medical leader program which involves the videos, interviews and presentations are a excellent way to have a insight and real life scenario in how to manage the many but very import challenges that you will face someday as a medical doctor and leader. I’m very delighted to have the opportunity to further develop my management and leader skills.

Dr Hamid Asadi
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