Weatherhead Executive Education

Subject	Women in Healthcare Leadership
Certificate	Women in Healthcare Leadership Certificate
Prerequisites	No prerequisites
Cost (Available Discounts)	Individual Participants: $392 by credit card; $417 by check Affiliate Partners: One class day per participant.

Program Dates	Continuing Education
February 19, 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cleveland, OH Add to Cart Margaret Hopkins, PhD	This program provides continuing education credit for the following professions: Physician 6 CME Nurse 6 CME Counselor 6 CEU Healthcare Exec. 6 CEU Social Worker 6 CEU Nursing Home Admin. 6 CEU PMI Project Managers 6 PDU SPHR Professionals 6 CEU PHR Professionals 6 CEU OHIO CPA 8 CPE

Outstanding leaders persuade, empower and collaborate.  They recognize their personal sources of power in addition to their positional power and use these multiple resources to achieve results.  Leaders also regularly draw on multiple relationships, their circles of influence, to increase their impact.   

   

In order to demonstrate leadership in today’s complex and critical field of healthcare, the effective use of power and influence is particularly important for women.  In this program participants identify their own sources of power and their networks of influence.  Strategies for maximizing individual and collective power and influence will also be discussed.

Topics

• What is power and what is influence?
• What are different sources of power?
• How is power used most effectively?
• What influence tactics have the greatest impact?
• How can power and influence be increased?
• How does a network of relationships enhance power and influence?
  

Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this class, participants will:

• Identify individual sources of power and influence in healthcare organizations
• Understand how to use power and influence effectively
• Develop strategies to enhance power and influence

Who Should Attend
Women healthcare and bioscience professionals in all disciplines, e.g., nurses, physicians, nutritionists, pharmacists, researchers, managers, scientists, health care educators, etc., and at all levels, e.g., entry, middle and senior from all sectors of the healthcare industry.

Level of Prior Knowledge in this Subject Area: None