ARE YOU FOCUSED ON TRANSFORMING YOUR ORGANIZATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?

Grow your capacity for transformational leadership through the study and application of Systems-based Leadership and Change Management™, a comprehensive framework for leading transformational change. An experiential learning process, in which your workplace is your laboratory, makes this program a perfect way to implement new leadership practices.

The Transformational Leadership Development Program is an educational program with real-world study for healthcare leaders conducted over a nine-month period, including eight group learning sessions and six individual coaching sessions with an executive coach, that will enhance your leadership skills to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing healthcare industry. You will leave with new skills that immediately impact your organization’s success.

Register Today
Sign up for Leading Transformational Change in Healthcare Organizations starting Friday, March 24, 2006 by completing and submitting a registration form today.

Learning Objectives

Apply a comprehensive framework for leading transformational change in complex social systems
Develop an individual case study using Systems-based Leadership and Change Management™ to lead a transformational change initiative in your organization
Identify and intervene in patterns of behavior that sabotage change
Self-assess and reflect on your leadership beliefs and behavior
Establish personal goals to reach a higher level of leadership functioning

Areas of Study

I. Unlocking the Secrets to Transformational Change (What stakeholders need from healthcare leaders)

Systems-based Leadership and Change Management™ – A framework for leading transformational change

Systems-based Leadership™– Understanding organizations as emotional systems with automatic patterns of behavior
Transition Management – Coming to terms with change
Change Management – Leading a strategic process
Project Management – Tactics and logistics

II. Systems-based Leadership™:

Bowen Family Systems Theory Applied to Organizations (From autopilot to awareness, the practice of leadership from a systems perspective)

A new way of seeing the organization: Recognizing automatic patterns of behavior
Differentiation of self: Growing your capacity for leadership
Triangles and Interlocking triangles: A systems view of the emotional and political landscape
New tools: Learning to de-triangle, leading through differentiation
New tools: Using “systems diagrams” and developing “organizational genograms“ for a broader perspective and new insights about an organization’s current level of functioning

III. Integrating John Kotter’s Strategic Change Management Process with Systems-based Leadership™

Taking leadership positions on highly charged issues: creating urgency that energizes and galvanizes
Selecting team members for knowledge and leadership capacity
Strategic conversations and crafting a vision
Characteristics of communications from project teams that successfully balance flexibility and creativity with focus and discipline.
Strategies for removing barriers to change
Resisting sabotage and maintaining momentum

IV. Transition Management: (Coming to terms with change)

Increased anxiety in the trenches demands leadership awareness
How to challenge self and staff to cope with change using the concepts of William Bridge’s Managing Transitions.

Program Specifics and Logistics

Kick-off seminar

This nine-month leadership development program begins with a one-day “kick-off” seminar (8:30 am to 4:30 pm) at The CARE Leadership Center in Chicago. The seminar provides an overview of the CARE Systems-based Leadership and Change Management™ framework for leading transformational change. It introduces the theory, principles, and tools that form the foundation of a new way to lead transformational change.

Seven Group Meetings

Two weeks after the kick-off seminar, a series of seven- three hour group meetings begins. Meetings are scheduled at six- week intervals to allow time for practicing new concepts in the workplace. The seven follow-up meetings provide in-depth discussions of concepts from Systems-based Leadership and Change Management™ and the opportunity to process real life leadership issues presented by the program participants.

Individual Executive Coaching Sessions

Each participant schedules one 30-minute telephone coaching session with our executive coach during each of the six-week intervals for a total of seven sessions. Participants benefit from access to their executive coach while processing their experiences.

Limited class size

The program is designed for 8-12 participants.

Continuing Education Credits

A certificate of attendance for 32.5 continuing education credits will be presented to attendees at the conclusion of the final seminar.

Program Logistics

Location

All sessions will be held in The CARE Leadership Center at the offices of Care Communications, Inc., 205 West Wacker, Suite 1900, in Chicago, Illinois 60606.

Who Should Attend?

Healthcare executives who are responsible for leading transformational change and individuals committed to taking their practice of leadership to the next level.

Program Fees

$2,975 Full Registration Fee

Early Registration - Discounted Program Fee $2,675

Payment in full must be received by February 28, 2006

Contact us for Group Discount (3 or more from the same Company)

Fee includes all instructional materials and books, lunches and coffee breaks. Fee is subject to change and payable in advance.

Schedule

Kick Off seminar starts Friday, March 24, 2006, 8:30am to 4:30pm

Seven group meetings from 3:00pm to 6:00pm on the following Thursdays: April 6, 2006, May 18, 2006, June 29, 2006, August 10, 2006, September 21, 2006, November 2, 2006, and December 14, 2006

Register Today
Sing up for Leading Transformational Change in Healthcare Organizations starting Friday, March 24, 2006 by completing and submitting a registration form today.

Care Communications Unveils Transformational Leadership Development Program