Leading Mission Teams

About the course

Effective leadership is a key contributor to MSF positive outcomes. Each year we want staff to be effective as they exercise their leadership skills; we want them to be more effective next year and against a higher bar which is driven by the increased complexity within our operating context. 

Target audience

This workshop is designed to help you to evolve internally so that you are better able to deal with complexity and uncertainty within the external environment.  

Coordinators between level 13 and 14 of the function grid (and hospital directors and project medical referents) who have minimum 6 months' experience in their position. Middle managers from HQ and partner sections are also welcome to apply.

Validation

This course is currently validated by OCB. 

Duration

35h

Learning objectives

The main aim of Leading Mission Teams is for you to develop a conscious practice of your leadership and of leading others. 

List of contents

During the online modules you will: 

  • assess your leadership style and build awareness of its impact, your values, strengths and biases, 
  • identify the decisions you are responsible for, how you make them and what you consider when doing so, especially within a changing context and when you need to build collaboration with multiple stakeholders,  
  • practise ways to coordinate the different families within a team and to develop team capacity through coaching, developing collective strength, building trust and levels of communication needed, 
  • review your ability to influence within everyday situations and those where there is more at stake and how you resolve conflict where trust is lost, 
  • discover tools that you can apply to current experiences, especially when working remotely and put into practice real time learning and feedback. Tools will include systems awareness building and how to lead a team through a difficult change. 

Methodology

  • Self-assessment of leadership competencies and needs 
  • Short inputs of models and recent thinking on leadership and team dynamics 
  • Active learning methods and experience sharing and learning from peers 
  • Use of the online experience to learn how to communicate and engage others at a distance  
  • Individual action planning to enhance effective use of learning 
  • Completion of a learner’s journal during the LMT process. You will end up with a detailed snapshot of your leadership.  
  • During the modules use coaching moments to help reflect on learning processes 
  • Between the modules to have experience of being coached and understand the power of the methodology  
  • Create spaces:  
    • for informal interactions between participants 
    • to capture questions and to answer them and reflect from multiple perspectives of what is possible in the situations you face. 

Duration

This course takes place twice a week over three weeks, and is offered twice a year.

Enrolment

Participants may apply by following the process outlined in the announcement, available on MSF OCB L&D Sharepoint (please contact learning-ocb@brussels.msf.org for support if needed). Participants will then be selected by a Selection Committee, and be enrolled by the course organisers. 

Certification

Upion successful completion, learners will be awarded a badge and a certificate.