Emerging Women Executives in Health Care Harvard University

Overview

What you will study

The Emerging Women Executives in Health Care program offered by Harvard University will provide you with a set of tools and ways of thinking to become a more effective leader. The program will explore:

• The impact of the policy environment on health care systems and the challenges and opportunities facing your organization as a result. This will better equip you to think more creatively about your own and your leadership group’s roles and responsibilities in a rapidly changing environment and to prioritize more effectively

• Cutting edge research on women and leadership to learn what underlies women’s leadership styles and practices and to enhance your own effectiveness as a leader

• Structural, political, cultural and individual attributes of organizations and how recognizing opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness

• Methods to recognize opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding how individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness

• Skills and strategies in negotiation, managing conflict, coalition-building, and influencing—key attributes fundamental to successful organizational life

• Organizational performance improvement techniques, particularly when such critical values as patient safety and innovation compete for resources and focus

• New management, leadership and change frameworks, models and best practices