Overview
In the contemporary health system, managers provide organisational leadership to ensure services continue to evolve to meet diverse community needs across different sectors. Effective leadership requires cutting-edge knowledge and skills to address these challenges.
The course is designed and delivered by experts in health management.
Course content is divided into two separate blocks:
- Block 1: Effective leadership by individuals and organisations
- Block 2: Resolving conflict, building workplaces

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The course will explore the role of health care leaders in:
- corporate and clinical governance
- continuous quality improvement
- organisational performance, financial performance and evaluation
- media and communications
- strategic policy, planning and evaluation
- community and staff engagement
- leadership and team building
- change management.
Who should participate?
Ideal for individuals who aspire to leadership roles and who require the knowledge and competencies to enable them to cope with the complex and changing environment of healthcare delivery.

Your expert facilitator Paula Bowman
Paula Bowman is a senior lecturer in the Master of Health Management program at QUT. She has 27 years experience in the health care sector - 16 years working as a clinician and clinical manager in acute hospital services and in private practice and more recently 11 years working as a senior executive with Queensland Health. Paula’s expertise covers the areas of: operational, project and program leadership, health policy analysis, workforce and clinical service planning, leading and managing clinical practice and health service improvement and the design and delivery of education and training programs.
Learn more about Paula BowmanCore concepts
On completion of this course, you will have:
- an understanding of the principles and concepts of organisational governance and the systems and structures required to exact governance
- an understanding of the principles and concepts of quality management and continuous quality improvement
- the ability to critically evaluate organisational performance
- the ability to manage media and communications both internally and externally
- an understanding of the principles and practice of policy development, planning and evaluation
- the ability to understand and demonstrate personal attributes and leadership skills and the ability to engage staff and the community and to lead strategic negotiations
- an understanding of the relevance of Indigenous and international health issues to health management.
Details
Where and when
Face-to-face delivery
This offering will be delivered face-to-face at QUT Kelvin Grove Campus.
When:
- Block 1: Thursday, 11 August + Friday, 12 August 2022
- Block 2: Thursday, 25 August + Friday, 26 August 2022
Live sessions will be recorded and then made accessible via the QUT Blackboard online learning portal.
Online Access
Content will be delivered through a blend of live and pre-recorded sessions which can accessed through Blackboard (QUT’s online learning platform). Blackboard provides the opportunity to consolidate learning through peer collaboration and discussion with course convenors. The 4 days is indicative of the amount of total time needed to dedicate to your learning, the lectures and content can be covered at your leisure. Flexible deadlines for the optional assessment can be negotiated with the Course Convenor.
Certification
At the end of the course, you'll receive a Certificate of Participation documenting your participation in the course, subject to undertaking the learning activities suggested by the Course Convenor.
If you undertake and complete the course and Assessment option, you'll receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of the assessments. This can be used to apply for advanced standing in a related award course at QUT.
Cost
Course Only
Registration type | Investment |
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Earlybird registration (close 4 weeks prior to course start date) | $2,090 (GST included) |
Standard registration | $2,325 (GST included) |
QUT Staff / Alumni registration | $1,745 (GST included) |
Australasian College of Health Service Managers (ACHSM) Members | $1,975 (GST included) |
Course and Assessment Option
Registration type | Investment |
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Earlybird registration (close 4 weeks prior to course start date) | $2,615 (GST included) |
Standard registration | $2,905 (GST included) |
QUT Staff / Alumni registration | $2,180 (GST included) |
Australasian College of Health Service Managers (ACHSM) Members | $2,470 (GST included) |
Registrations close Thursday, 4 August 2022.
More details
Option to undertake assessment for credit (advanced standing) in the unit Leadership in Health Management (PUN632) in some postgraduate award courses.
This program is shared by postgraduate students in Health, and may involve some collaboration between professional development participants and postgraduate students.
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