Courses You Need
Leading during a pandemic presents unique challenges requiring a diverse level of skills. Whether you’re a Physician, Director, CMO or CEO, AAPL has curated a select list of courses to support you across Change Management, Physician Engagement and Leadership. Which will you choose to learn more about as you lead yourself, your department, your team and your organization?
Here are recommended courses from the AAPL's course catalog.
Change Management Courses:
Leading change is a challenge – these courses will give you tools to succeed.
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Practical Principles of Change Management
This course consists of real case studies that demonstrate change creation. Physician leaders will closely examine those case studies and use actionable findings to manage change in their own organizations.
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Leading and Managing Strategic Change
Gain the tools, techniques and skills required to lead change. The key to thriving as a physician leader is the ability to manage strategic innovation and change. There's a difference between a compelling vision and a burning platform, and leading change versus managing it. This course will provide physician leaders the insights they need to guide their organizations to the forefront of health care innovation.
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Embracing Change
The ability to embrace change is essential to being successful as a leader, but, for many, the natural response to change is fear or resistance. Fortunately, we can train our minds to better manage change. This course provides practical strategies to encourage and support adaptability and resilience during times of change. Through real-world examples, you'll have an opportunity to explore potential concerns and solutions while improving your attitude toward change.
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Managing Task Forces, Committees and Work Groups
How to Get a Reputation as a Good Leader
This course will not only teach you how to do both of these things, it will provide practical insights into clarifying roles, communicating with members, listening and synthesizing information, disclosing conflicts of interest, and coming to group consensus. Consequently, it will also teach you the skills you need to get a reputation as a good group leader.
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Leading Problem Solving
Problem solving requires courage, ingenuity, fact-finding, and above all else, good communication. It is the essence of what leaders exist to do. With an insurmountable list of problems developing daily, and time limitations that add new complexities, finding solutions can sometimes feel impossible.
This course guides physician leaders as they develop the skills necessary to address problems strategically while minimizing adversity along the way.
Physician Engagement Courses:
Engagement during stressful times is a challenge – these courses will give you tools to succeed.
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Engaging Physicians for Results
While active physician engagement is a common goal, few know how to achieve this ideal high-performing workforce. Learn how to set out a compelling vision to gain physician buy-in for change. Explore key elements that will build relationships with stakeholders to construct the optimal performance leadership structure. Understand how performance metrics, training programs and leadership development can be harnessed to impact change.
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Mastering Physician Engagement
Discover how to create stable relationships between physicians and the workplace. Use the strategies here to build physician trust, provide performance feedback and implement change. Explore key elements designed to promote higher levels of physician engagement and deliver effective solutions.
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Integrated Health Systems: Physician Engagement
System integration is the goal, and it works best when physicians operate collaboratively within a specific leadership structure and culture. This course shows how to establish that structure. It also explores how behavior and organizational values can align to create loyalty within a team.
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From Autonomy to Teamwork
Physicians are traditionally trained to be autonomous in their thinking and actions. However, as new care delivery models emerge placing further emphasis on team-based care, physicians must develop practical teamwork skills in order to provide the best quality care for patients.
This course will guide participants in recognizing the importance of team-based care, identifying attributes and qualities of high-performing teams, diagnosing strategies to minimize risk and human error, and the significance of being held responsible for ones’ actions or the actions of others.
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Develop Effective Teams
Learning how to work effectively in teams has become a crucial skill in today’s workplace. Those tasked with leading teams are presented with challenges that must be dealt with efficiently.
This course will introduce leaders to new approaches for improving team performance through effective communication, innovative problem-solving, and conflict management. Strategies and templates discussed in the course will allow learners to evaluate personal team-based experiences while drawing connections to industry examples.
Physician Leadership Courses:
The Fundamentals of Physician Leadership Series is the perfect starting point for your journey into leadership.
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Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Series
Build a well-rounded foundation of leadership and influence. Effective leadership is developed by honing specific skills and behaviors, and in the Fundamentals courses, physicians will explore tactics and strategies to strengthen organizational values, improve team performance, streamline redundant processes and more.
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Building and Leading Effective Teams
Gain the knowledge and support skills needed to build a successful team in a health care organization. Understand not only the principles of change management but also learn to utilize techniques to build buy-in. See how successful leaders recruit, select and retain top clinicians through effective coaching and training. Explore the use of surveys, case studies, and role-playing to apply the skills learned.
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Developing a Business Plan
Health care organizations hesitate to invest in initiatives without fully understanding the likely return on investments. It is common for organizations to demand a business plan to justify the expense of new projects and ventures. And it is essential for physician leaders to understand business plans; including each key element of a plan. Learn to draft business plans for new programs, projects and ventures for existing organizations -- as well as for new business development.
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Leading Innovation in Health Care Delivery
These days, the volume-to-value transition in health care requires physician leaders to seek better ways to deliver care. By applying systematic and team-based approaches, they can innovate health care in incremental, achievable steps. This course offers insight into what's behind successful innovation and what it takes to achieve it.
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The CMIO-CMO-CIO Partnership
The course explores the role of clinical informatics and how each collaborator – Chief Medical Information Officer, Chief Medical Officer or Chief Information Officer – can improve them. These partnerships often result in better information gathering and improved focus on how to use data to deliver superior care. It also covers the CMIO hybrid’s characteristics and offers support systems for physicians in that role.
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Practical Principles of Change Management
This course consists of real case studies that demonstrate change creation. Physician leaders will closely examine those case studies and use actionable findings to manage change in their own organizations.
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Managing Physician Performance
Enroll to learn how to find — and keep — the most talented physicians. This program provides a blueprint for the hiring and talent management process. Registrants will explore strategies for interviewing, hiring, coaching, performance evaluations, and more. By the end of the course, physician leaders will have covered many strategies and tactics required to leverage talent. These same strategies, when applied, can be used to significantly strengthen organizations.
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Leading and Managing Strategic Change
Gain the tools, techniques and skills required to lead change. The key to thriving as a physician leader is the ability to manage strategic innovation and change. There's a difference between a compelling vision and a burning platform, and leading change versus managing it. This course will provide physician leaders the insights they need to guide their organizations to the forefront of health care innovation.
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Leveraging the Clinical Team
Physician leaders who are managing interdisciplinary clinical teams can learn the basics of hiring, leading, and managing new team members. This course provides strategies for effective coaching, defusing disruptive behavior and more. The curriculum shows how to apply a high-performance model so all team members are reaching their potential. It discusses ways to develop a culture of retention. It teaches physician leaders how to successfully interview candidates. And it demonstrates evidence-based insights and tactics on how to best leverage clinical teams.
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