Clinical Leadership program curriculum

Daily class work will be focused around working in teams, with short projects completed in-class, during the week.

Day 1: The leadership challenge

• Examine personal learning and decision-making styles
• Explore issues of power and competing expectations faced by leaders and managers
• Analyze complex clinical situations and explore the multiple challenges clinical leaders face daily

Day 2: Leading change

• Explore traditional and complexity-informed perspectives of leadership as they apply to organizational leadership and change
• Compare and contrast newer complexity perspective paradigms of balancing competing demands with more traditional managerial command and control
• Fostering a culture of trust, recognition and transparency in clinical decision-making and improvement

Day 3: Leading as communicator and coach

• Develop skills for effective communication with clients, patients, peers and management
• Examine individual and group communication skills and learn influential verbal and non verbal communication skills
• Explore the role of clinical leader as coaches and mentors for high impact teams

Day 4: Leading the interdisciplinary team

• Explore teamwork in the context of specific client populations, define roles and make collaboration work
• Learn to negotiate and arbitrate competing professional and political interests to achieve high-quality patient focused outcomes
• Make the most of your strengths to motivate, inspire and engage teams to achieve clinical goals and positive, sustainable outcomes

Day 5: Leader as enquirer

• Explore how successful leaders ask questions in complex situations in order to respond to needs
• Understand the strategic difference between predictable and unpredictable aspects of work
• Successfully combine leadership and management knowledge, skills and behaviours