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LDRS 621 Leading in Interprofessional Healthcare Teams

This course will give the student the framework for resolving interpersonal and inter-professional conflicts within the healthcare environment. Students will analyze adaptive leadership and the four characteristics of how each one impacts one another to facilitate a collective process. The course looks at how to identify and learn about the various professions involved in delivering healthcare. Students will use the perspectives of adaptive leadership while utilizing a change management model to make progress on the complex and dynamic issues inherent in healthcare in the 21st century.

Credits

3

Outcomes

  1. Examine one’s own personality profile and how this may impact your approach to leadership style as it pertains to change management.
  2. Examine one's own leadership philosophy incorporating the principles of emotional and social intelligence by utilizing personality instruments.
  3. Identify the stakeholders from disciplines and professions within the healthcare delivery system and explore the various perspectives and worldviews they might hold.
  4. Examine the four components of Adaptive leadership and how they integrate into a change management model.
  5. Integrate the principles and practices of adaptive leadership in leading teams in the healthcare setting by analyzing some of the challenges and engaging the stakeholders who care about the dilemmas.
  6. Select a current professional leadership challenge in which the student will utilize a change management model and the four components of adaptive leadership to guide the process.
  7. 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.
  8. Identify different leadership styles, their risks and benefits/strengths and limitations, and the situations in which they can best serve the shared work.