Our Curriculum: Equipping Leaders for Excellence
Covering the Full Range of Leadership Skills
While course offerings may vary by constituency, the 50+ courses composing the Academies curriculum cover the full range of topics and skills required for excellence in health care leadership. Course topics are organized around four key areas of performance—Setting Direction, Business Analysis and Decision Making, Improving Staff Performance, and Addressing Operational and Strategic Challenges.
Topics Covered in Academies Curriculum
Setting Direction
Mobilizing People Toward Organizational Objectives
- Breakthrough Leadership
- Learning from 360-degree Feedback
- Leading Through Vision
- Influence for Impact
- Managing Conflict - Power and Influence
- Negotiations Strategies
- Strengthening Nurse/Physician Relations
- Leading Change
Business Analysis and Decision Making
Enhancing Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving and Innovation
- Improving Critical Thinking on the Front Line
- Evaluating Department Performance
- Leading Through Strategy
- Analyzing Competitive Markets
- Growth Through Innovation
- Strategic Financial Management
- Drivers of Financial Performance
- Fundamentals of Nursing Finance
- Instilling Cost Discipline
- Improving Financial Decision Making
- Anticipating the Financial Impact of Change
- Clinical Capital Investing
Improving Staff Performance
Motivating Others to Excel
- Managerial Coaching
- Emerging Health Care Leaders
- Facilitating Effective Teamwork - Human Capital Management
- Managing Amidst Diversity
- Instilling Accountability at the Front Line
Addressing Strategic and Operational Challenges
Elevating Organizational Performance
- Toward a Higher Standard of Patient Care
- Hardwiring Clinical Quality Improvement
- Achieving Breakthrough Operations
- Optimizing Core Processes
- Optimizing Patient Throughput
- Hardwiring for Service Excellence
- Optimizing Unit Staffing
- Enterprise Practicum
Building on Efforts Across Time
Leadership development is best viewed as more than a one-time event. Our most successful partners see the compounding impact of their efforts across time, with the most significant gains occurring in the second year of development and beyond. Academies leadership development experts can help design a program that sequences and sustains your efforts to maximize impact.