Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives Harvard University

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