College of Graduate and Professional Studies Catalog - Spring 2024

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LDRS 621 Leading in Interprofessional Healthcare Teams

This course integrates the learnings from the prior leadership courses with the adaptive work of leading within Interprofessional healthcare teams. We will look at how to identify and learn about he various professions involved in delivering healthcare as we use the perspectives of adaptive leadership and the techniques of polarity management to make progress on the complex issues inherent in healthcare in the 21st century.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. 1. Synthesize and integrate the perspectives of adaptive leadership with leading in teams in the healthcare setting.
  2. 2. Examine one's own leadership philosophy as developed in LDRS 500, incorporating the principles of emotional and social intelligence by utilizing personality instruments.
  3. 3. Identify the stakeholders from disciplines and professions within the healthcare delivery system and explore the various perspectives and worldviews they might hold.
  4. 4. Integrate the principles and practices of adaptive leadership in leading within teams in the healthcare setting by analyzing some of the adaptive challenges and engaging the stakeholders who care about the dilemmas.
  5. 5. Select a current professional leadership adaptive challenge in which the student will explore new means of leading utilizing polarity mapping, adaptive leadership principles, and the tenets and insights of emotional and social intelligence.
  6. 6. Integrate the principles of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management/building) and one's own way of being and leading‚ the development of one's own authentic presence in leading and influencing the work in the healthcare delivery setting.
  7. 7. Describe and apply the tools of polarity management, the ladder of inference, and adult development in exercising leadership in teams and organizations.
  8. 8. Identify different leadership styles, their risks and benefits/strengths and limitations, and the situations in which they can best serve the shared work.