Executive Development Track
Every day, executives must make decisions that affect their entire organization and satisfy multiple stakeholders, all while keeping an eye on what the future holds. With so many daily demands, leadership strategy sometimes gets put on the back burner. In this track, emphasis will be given to several issues that healthcare executives must also be mindful of, apart from the everyday details, including engaging your team, leading your organization through changing times and a changing workforce, and the importance of succession planning.
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Change Management for the Entrepreneurial Leader
Frank Lloyd Wright CD
Moderator: Bruce Carlson, Corporate Director Materials Management, Valley Health
Presenter: Nick Gaich, CEO, Nick Gaich and Associates
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Listen to the audio recording of this session here.
Change is inevitable, and often leads to good things, yet it seems to be human nature to resist it. Effective leaders must be able to communicate, motivate and relate. In the complex and ever-changing healthcare landscape, this is not always an easy task.
Increasing demands for improvement in quality, safety, patient care and transparency make for a dynamic and rapidly evolving healthcare environment. This session will discuss strategies to lead your organization in a manner that embraces change while satisfying multiple stakeholders. Emphasis will be given to best practices in change leadership and how to align roles and responsibilities in addition to determining the resources needed to accomplish goals and objectives, while highlighting the benefits that can come with change.
Part two of this session will delve into the characteristics of effective leaders and the entrepreneurial spirit that they must possess. Entrepreneurs constantly seek to educate themselves in order to achieve their goals. They welcome each new day as an opportunity to improve, to grow and to learn from mistakes. Discover ways that you can integrate an entrepreneurial mindset in order to become a better leader in your organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the importance of understanding change and common responses to it.
- Specify new methods of effective leadership through change.
- Define the role of leaders and entrepreneurs in the process of continuous improvement in an organization.
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm The Science of Being an Engaging Leader
Frank Lloyd Wright CD
Moderator: Henry Tomasuolo, Vice President for Support Services, Children's Hospital Boston
Presenter: Joanne Schlosser, FACHE, President, Rising Stars, LLC
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Listen to an audio recording of this session here.
We have all had experiences with leaders who made a positive impact on our lives, those who made a lasting impression and whom we would like to emulate. Are great leaders born or are they made? This session will discuss what makes an effective leader and how you can improve your leadership skills, in order to inspire your team to be the best that they can be.
This session will focus on engaging your team to reach their potential both personally and as a group. Explore how to create a vision, set expectations, and improve communication to achieve outstanding outcomes.
We will put the spotlight on what is almost certainly a rapidly increasing percentage of your workforce – millennials. Emphasis will be given to methods of best capitalizing on their strengths, as well as understanding their unique needs and perspective. What really makes them tick? How are you doing with cultivating a strong work ethic, articulating realistic and clear expectations, and setting a good example to develop your millennials? Learn what works.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the qualities that effective and respected leaders must possess.
- Assess best practices and methods for managing millennials.
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm The Realities of Leading
Frank Lloyd Wright CD
Moderator: Henry Tomasuolo, Vice President for Support Services, Children's Hospital Boston
Presenter: Joanne Schlosser, FACHE, President, Rising Stars, LLC
View the slide presentation here.
Listen to an audio recording of this session here.
Leadership is not an easy task. Ideally, a leader’s full job description would simply be to manage their team, but in today’s workforce, executives have far too many actual job responsibilities, leaving them little to no time to nurture the professional development and growth of their employees. Most executives say that cultivating the growth of their team is one of their most important goals, but realistically, this often ends up on the back burner.
This session will draw upon recent healthcare executive leadership development research to identify meaningful development opportunities and their importance. Topics will include: 1. How to hire the best talent, 2. The importance of developing your leaders, and 3. The basics of succession planning. Learn how to recognize which candidate will be the best fit for your organization. Discuss how coaching, mentoring, training, and developing your leaders creates a loyal and better-performing team. Finally, understand the benefits of having a formal succession plan in place, putting you and your organization in a position to address changes in leadership when they occur.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the importance of making the professional growth of leaders and staff a priority.
- Describe the steps needed to implement effective development and training of leaders and staff.
- Identify the importance of a succession plan for the future of your organization.