Arizona Healthcare Leadership Academy.
Developing confident, skilled healthcare leaders.
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Tier I Courses & Objectives

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Workplace Environment

  • Managing in professional cultures
  • Organizational coordination and control systems
  • Working in and around hierarchies
  • Understanding power and politics

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Understanding Organizational Performance Measures

  • Review of clinical and non-clinical measures used in healthcare
  • Application of measures to meet regulatory needs (e.g. JCAHO Patient Safety) and Financial/Budgetary needs (e.g. Variance, NCHPPD, # charges, admissions)
  • Understanding of measurement frameworks such as Balanced Scorecard and Dashboards
  • Quality improvement concepts and basic measures

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Team Building (Supervisor-Work Group Relationships)

Aleksander Ellis, Ph.D.
  • Group motivation techniques
  • Setting group goals and objectives
  • Managing intra-group relationships
  • Managing group behavior, interactions, and development

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Human Resource Management (Supervisor-Subordinate Relationships)

Cindi Gilliland, Ph.D.
  • Individual motivation techniques (why different people are motivated by different things)
  • Setting individual goals and objectives (SMART technique)
  • Rewards and discipline
  • How to deal with difficult and non-performing employees
  • Importance of documentation

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Conflict Management and Negotiations

  • Managing conflict
  • Effective negotiating tactics
  • Distributive (win-lose) vs. integrative (win-win) bargaining strategies
  • Persuasion techniques

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Communication

  • Advantages and disadvantages of using different communication methods
  • Writing good memos and emails (how to say more with less)
  • Face-to-face communication – verbal and non-verbal
  • Barriers to effective communication
  • Gender and cultural differences in communication
  • Customer service

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Time Management

  • Managing stress
  • Getting organized
  • Prioritizing tasks and activities
  • Taking control of your schedule (learning to say no)

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Capstone Course

Betty Falter, RN, MS, CNAA, BC
  • Integrative course that uses real-world scenarios to provide a context for highlighting the typical issues and dilemmas that participants are likely to encounter in their jobs
  • Participants will work in small groups to assess and analyze their assigned cases then deliver a brief presentation on their recommendations

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Upcoming Programs

 
Tier II : May 7 - Jun 18
U of A, College of Nursing, Tucson |  View Details

Tier I : Sep 5 - Oct 3
Northern AZ Medical Center, Flagstaff  |  View Details

Tier I : Sep 10 - Oct 22
McClelland Hall, The University of Arizona, Tucson  |  View Details

Tier II : Oct 1 - Nov 12
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix  |  View Details

Tier I : Oct 23 - Dec 4
University of Arizona Eller College of Management - Scottsdale Campus, Phoenix |  View Details

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