Infection Prevention Leadership Skills Course

Name: Advanced Infection Prevention Leadership Skills Course
Availability: InStock

Lead IPC stakeholders, teams, behavior change, executive communication, implementation, escalation, and sustained improvement.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Dubai, Frankfurt, Manama, Phuket, Abu Dhabi, Montreux and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Dubai
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Advanced Infection Prevention Leadership Skills Course is a one-week course for infection preventionists and healthcare leaders, who leave with an Infection Prevention Leadership Action Plan. The course develops influence without authority, stakeholder engagement, executive communication, multidisciplinary team facilitation, conflict management, behavior change, implementation leadership, data storytelling, escalation, safety culture, and sustained improvement. Agile Leaders Training Center presents infection prevention leadership as coordinated organizational practice.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for leading infection prevention priorities and implementation
Personnel responsible for surveillance findings, risk communication, and improvement
Functions responsible for healthcare quality, safety culture, and governance
Clinical leaders responsible for multidisciplinary practice change
Supervisors responsible for team performance, escalation, and accountability

The course assumes participants already contribute to infection prevention work and leaves out introductory clinical precautions, technical surveillance instruction, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory advice.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments that lead infection prevention across healthcare delivery, public health, residential care, and clinical support services.

Infection prevention and control functions
Quality, patient safety, and risk departments
Clinical operations and nursing leadership teams
Occupational health and workforce safety services
Residential care, diagnostic, and ambulatory services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze leadership authority, accountability, and organizational context
Build stakeholder influence and engagement strategies
Apply communication, advocacy, and data-storytelling tools
Use team facilitation and conflict-management methods
Evaluate behavior-change and implementation leadership choices
Prioritize escalation, governance, and sustainability actions

Course Agenda

Day 1: Infection Prevention Leadership Context

APIC Infection Preventionist Competency Model Map
Leadership Role, Authority, and Accountability Canvas
IPC Strategic Alignment and Priority Matrix
Organizational Safety Culture Assessment
Leadership Strength and Development Profile

Day 2: Stakeholder Influence and Communication

Stakeholder Influence and Interest Map
Influence-Without-Authority Strategy Canvas
Executive Communication Message Architecture
IPC Advocacy and Resource Case Template
Communication Channel and Feedback Plan

Day 3: Team Facilitation and Conflict

Multidisciplinary Team Charter
Meeting Facilitation and Decision Protocol
Psychological Safety Conversation Checklist
Conflict Diagnosis and Response Matrix
Accountability and Follow-Through Board

Day 4: Change, Data, and Implementation

WHO Multimodal Implementation Strategy Map
Behavior-Change Barrier and Enabler Analysis
IPC Data Storytelling Narrative Structure
Implementation Readiness and Risk Register
Escalation, Governance, and Sustainability Pathway

Day 5: Infection Prevention Leadership Practice

Suggested Exercise: Stakeholder Influence Scenario
Suggested Exercise: Executive Data Briefing
Suggested Exercise: Team Conflict Facilitation
Suggested Exercise: Implementation and Escalation Decision
Capstone Exercise: Infection Prevention Leadership Action Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities with fictional hospital, ambulatory, residential-care, and diagnostic-service scenarios.

Suggested activity: map formal authority, informal influence, stakeholder interests, and engagement choices.
Suggested activity: turn surveillance and performance evidence into an executive decision narrative.
Suggested activity: facilitate a multidisciplinary disagreement and document accountability decisions.
Suggested activity: build an implementation pathway with behavior, governance, escalation, and sustainability controls.

FAQs

Who suits infection prevention leadership skills training, and what does it assume?

Infection preventionists, quality personnel, clinical leaders, and supervisors suit the course; it assumes practical involvement in IPC priorities, teams, data, or improvement.

How does infection prevention leadership differ from technical infection control training?

Infection prevention leadership develops influence, communication, facilitation, change, governance, and implementation skills rather than teaching clinical precautions or surveillance methods.

How can infection preventionists influence without formal authority?

Infection preventionists can influence without formal authority by mapping interests, framing evidence around shared priorities, selecting credible messengers, creating participation, and documenting decisions and accountability.

How does data storytelling support infection prevention leadership?

Data storytelling connects infection risks, operational consequences, stakeholder concerns, and a clear decision request so leaders can act on surveillance and performance evidence.

How can infection prevention improvement be sustained?

Infection prevention improvement is sustained through assigned ownership, workflow integration, feedback, visible measures, escalation triggers, leadership review, and adaptation when barriers change.

Conclusion

Participants leave with an Infection Prevention Leadership Action Plan combining influence, communication, team, change, data, implementation, governance, and sustainability tools. The plan turns IPC evidence into coordinated leadership decisions. It helps participants align stakeholders, guide teams, escalate risks, and maintain improvement work.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Paris	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Lisbon	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Rome	Week 09, 2027 1 – 5 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Dubai	Week 10, 2027 8 – 12 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Porto	Week 10, 2027 8 – 12 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Doha	Week 10, 2027 14 – 18 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Barcelona	Week 12, 2027 22 – 26 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Manama	Week 12, 2027 28 March – 1 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
San Diego	Week 14, 2027 5 – 9 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€14,000
Kuala Lumpur	Week 15, 2027 12 – 16 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Muscat	Week 15, 2027 18 – 22 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Zoom	Week 16, 2027 19 – 23 April 2027	1 Week	Online	€1,500
London	Week 17, 2027 26 – 30 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 17, 2027 2 – 6 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Casablanca	Week 18, 2027 3 – 7 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Accra	Week 19, 2027 16 – 20 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Madrid	Week 20, 2027 17 – 21 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Vienna	Week 21, 2027 24 – 28 May 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced Infection Prevention Leadership Skills Course is a one-week course for infection preventionists and healthcare leaders, who leave with an Infection Prevention Leadership Action Plan. The course develops influence without authority, stakeholder engagement, executive communication, multidisciplinary team facilitation, conflict management, b…

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Infection Prevention Leadership Skills Course