CLL0007 - Certificate of Healthcare Leadership
Course Description
In healthcare, individuals are often tapped for supervisory roles based on their technical skills, but rarely given adequate time and training to develop leadership skills. This 6-month, hybrid, cohort-based program, specifically designed for the unique and nuanced nature of the healthcare environment, empowers you to effectively lead individuals, teams, and organizations. Through a combination of in-person and virtual learning, you’ll gain practical knowledge and skills.
What You'll Learn:
- Explore the unique, complex challenges facing healthcare leaders and study the competencies needed to address them.
- Identify your leadership strengths, core values, and development areas, and consider how these apply to work in healthcare fields.
- Develop your emotional intelligence to lead more effectively under stress.
- Gain tools to build cohesive teams and collaborate in remote and in-person environments.
- Enhance your interpersonal communication and conflict resolution skills.
- Create inclusive cultures in which people of diverse identities, backgrounds and abilities can thrive.
- Learn strategies to problem solve and manage change.
Ideal Candidates:
- Diverse healthcare professionals
- Including, but not limited to, physicians, nurses/nurse practitioners, hospital/clinic administrators & managers, dentists, orthodontists, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, mental health practitioners and more.
- New healthcare supervisors and team leaders looking to develop leadership skills as they advance their career.
- Experienced healthcare leaders seeking to refresh and enhance their leadership skills regardless of how long they've been in a managerial role.
Students who successfully complete a School of Leadership Studies certificate program have the option of applying a maximum of 3 credits towards completion of a Masters in Organizational Leadership, Masters in Communication and Leadership, or Masters in Business Administration (MBA), contingent upon admission and within 5 years of certificate completion.
Link to the Scholarship Application: If you are applying for a scholarship, please fill out this application before checking out.
