Newest Courses
What's New in the Store
As a physician leader, staying abreast of the latest and up-to-date information is critical. Check out our newest Self-Study and Facilitated online courses and to assist you in your day-to-day activities:
Newest Self-Study Online Courses:
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The Neuropsychology of Strategic Thinking
This course will facilitate a shift perspective in how we think about, understand, and implement strategic thinking by traversing topics including the psychology of strategic thinking, executive functioning and brain development, innate temperament, and the function of the ego in thinking effectively. The approach is holistic in nature and will be immediately impactful in approaching both everyday leadership responsibilities and long-term organizational strategies.
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Project Management Overview for Physician Leaders
This course explores the nuances of traditional, dyad, and triad project leadership models, and shines a spotlight on the physician’s role in project management. Throughout this course, you will find new ways to reduce costs, identify risks, increase productivity, and boost your competitive advantage through project management strategies.
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From Autonomy to Teamwork
This course will guide participants in recognizing the importance of team-based care, and will share techniques, case studies and practices that help create effective teams.
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Physician Career Advancement: Mastering Soft Skills
This course will help physician leaders improve their competitive advantage, and ensure future marketability, by focusing on key soft skills that are considered critical for career success.
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Building Your Online Presence
This course introduces health care professionals to the nuances of personal branding, including strategies for identifying a target audience, assessing risks and obstacles, and finding avenues for building a credible ‘brand voice’ through consistency and style.
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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.
Facilitated Online Courses:
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Transforming Healthcare Through Quality Improvement: April - May, 2021
There is no shortage of Quality Improvement (QI) work for physician leaders. Like most of medicine, QI is a mixture of art and science. Leaders need the language, insight and strategies for how to move large groups of people to adopt new practices, as well as the ability to demonstrate how these strategies successfully improve care and reduce measurement and perpetual improvement fatigue.
This course will explore the methods, tools and skills required to accelerate quality improvement in any healthcare organization by focusing on QI foundations, successful execution and business alignment.
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Financial Skills for Executive Decision Making: February - March, 2021
Understanding the language of financial concepts and their application is critical to the success of physician leaders. This course will demystify the language, tools and application of finance and help prepare you to apply them to the goals of your organization.
The course will also focus on increased understanding of finance terminology, the application of tools utilized, and how decisions are made from a financial investment perspective. Participants will walk away with a thorough understanding of how financial decisions can impact their organization.
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Leading Innovation in Healthcare Organizations: February - March, 2021
Creating and nurturing an innovative organization suited to meet the continual challenge of change is a critical leadership attribute for organizational success.
This course will explore the mindset and skills necessary to be an effective leader of innovation, whether you think yourself creative or not, and provide you an opportunity to hone that mindset and skills in your organization. Through ongoing conversations with your peers, you will also discuss, identify, and prototype new solutions to existing healthcare problems.
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Building a Path to Leadership Excellence: March - April, 2021
In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, effective leaders must pause, reflect, take stock, adapt, and rise to challenges with courage, humility, and compassion. Throughout this course, you will be provided with tools and techniques to assist you in becoming more self-aware as the foundation for ensuring your own optimal engagement, effectiveness, and well-being.
This course is grounded in the science of positive psychology, sports/performance psychology, and mindfulness. You will walk away with improved levels of personal insight and purpose to better lead yourself, others and your organization.
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