Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
“This was a wonderful, intense, and empowering experience with expert, compelling speakers, and a new network of trusted colleagues.”
—Jeanette C. Schreiber, Associate VP for Medical Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Upcoming Program Information
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Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
This leadership development program focused on women enhances your skills to lead complex healthcare organizations, bridging gaps in your understanding and strategies, and preparing you for career advancement.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $4,900.00
Program Overview
Strengthening the Career Paths for Women Executives
Women comprise a majority of health care employees—yet relatively few executives are female. Emerging Women Executives in Health Care helps senior, mid-career, and emerging health care leaders strengthen their leadership strategies to improve their organizational impact, prepare for their next career move, and learn key skills to help promote the advancement of women as health care executive leaders. As a participant, you will leave the program better prepared to leverage the critical business knowledge gained to lead strategically and manage complex health care challenges. With a focus on building effective cross-functional relationships, this program provides the mindset, tools, and skills to navigate change with agility. Through group discussions and hands-on exercises, you will learn from your fellow participants’ experiences, as well as from leading Harvard faculty, as you exchange valuable insights and best practices.
As a participant, you will develop the leadership skills needed to manage health care organizations efficiently and effectively by exploring topics that include:
- Applying effective leadership styles
- Building and leading teams
- Emotional intelligence
- Influencing with and without authority
- Managing and sustaining change
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Organizational politics
- Performance improvement strategies
- Strategic planning
As you move higher in your organization, you face a greater breadth of challenges. These require superior leadership and management skills and comfort dealing with ambiguity. This program will provide you with a set of tools and ways of thinking to become a more effective leader. The program will explore:
- The impact of the policy environment on health care systems and the challenges and opportunities facing your organization as a result. This will better equip you to think more creatively about your own and your leadership group’s roles and responsibilities in a rapidly changing environment and to prioritize more effectively
- Cutting edge research on women and leadership to learn what underlies women’s leadership styles and practices and to enhance your own effectiveness as a leader
- Structural, political, cultural and individual attributes of organizations and how recognizing opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness
- Methods to recognize opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding how individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness
- Skills and strategies in negotiation, managing conflict, coalition-building, and influencing—key attributes fundamental to successful organizational life
- Organizational performance improvement techniques, particularly when such critical values as patient safety and innovation compete for resources and focus
- New management, leadership and change frameworks, models and best practices
Objectives & Highlights
This program is designed to engage women leaders who are advancing into a management role and looking to drive excellence. Our curriculum focuses on strengthening those new leaders’ knowledge, skills, and capabilities necessary to effectively lead complex health care and health-related organizations. Participants in this program will:
- Develop a deeper awareness of personal leadership and management styles to yield more effective communication, better manage conflict, and engage in challenging, yet productive, conversations
- Enhance your capability to lead sustainable change
- Learn to maximize your networks through productive alliances and partnerships
- Understand individual motivation, team dynamics, and how to lead teams effectively
- Acquire the knowledge and mindset to create a meaningful strategy that guides successful implementation
- Sessions specialized and focused on relevant leadership development topics, including innovative problem-solving, decision-making, robust teams, health equity, change and self-awareness
- Personal setting to interact with and learn from leading Harvard faculty members and accomplished women who have had successful careers in health care and related fields
- Professional networking with women on similar career trajectories
- Opportunities to try out essential skills needed to successfully navigate the health care industry’s complex structure and political landscape
- Case studies, lectures, individual reflection, and small group work to best develop your leadership and management skills in ways that appeal to all learning style
Certificate of Specialization
Advance your Career with a Certificate of Specialization
This program contributes to the 3-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization. Click here for more information.
