Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives

Overview

What you will learn

The learning objectives of the Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives course offered by Harvard University are:

• Utilize the necessary tools to gain a firm grasp of your organization’s financial structure to effectively bring your vision to reality

• Use interest-based negotiation, multidimensional problem solving, meta-leadership, and other effective techniques to build collaboration and manage conflicts across complex health care systems

• Understand and leverage your skills to transform and lead groups into productive, high-performing teams

• Develop the crucial qualities, actions, and approaches necessary to be a successful leader

• Understand design thinking and how it can be used as a process for stimulating innovation in your organization

• Be able to explain and apply the dynamics of politics, culture, political culture and policy, alongside agenda setting, conflict and the role of narrative in policy making

• Understand organizational strategy and how to increase strategic thinking

• Understand change management concepts and apply them to real world experience

• Use best practices in giving and delivering feedback, work conflict, and difficult conversations to enhance high performing teams

• Identify leadership styles, strategies and approaches to improve personal navigation of challenges and opportunities

• Explore how groups become teams, structure themselves, and problem solve

• Introduce key concepts in developing an organizational strategy

• Examine ways to increase strategic thinking

• Understand what you are inherently good at as managers or employees

• Explore how to balance strengths on your health care teams

• Determine next steps to take in order to help leverage your talents

• Identify mechanisms that enable learning-by-doing to improve team performance

• Diagnose patterns of helpful and unhelpful behavior in teams

• Explore the issues leaders in health care face

• Leadership sessions on motivation, negotiation, ethics, financial management, and more

• Active discussion groups that facilitate the sharing of experiences, address specific challenges, and create workplace solutions

• Distinguished Harvard faculty members, complemented by health care industry experts

• Professional networking with colleagues from highly regarded organizations