The Hanley Center for Health Leadership & Education is proud to offer an innovative and much needed seminar series aimed at teaching our rural physicians and providers leadership skills and supporting their wellness. This curriculum has been designed in partnership with rural physicians and providers. Thank you to The Physicians Foundation for their generous support of this initiative. The Physicians Foundation empowers physicians and advanced practice providers to lead in the delivery of high quality, cost-efficient healthcare.

If you’re interested in running this course within your geographic region, please contact Janell Lewis, Director of Leadership Development.

Session 1: Rural Practice: Challenges and Opportunities

Purpose 

Create a shared understanding of unique challenges and opportunities of rural healthcare practice and establish a learning community for the program.

Example Outcomes

  • Ability to identify opportunities amidst constraints
  • A working knowledge of Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Deviants as problem solving tools
Session 2: Building Partnerships and Collaborations

Purpose 

  • Build and manage stronger networks and partnerships to support individual and community needs while strengthening collaboration skills.

Example Outcomes

  • Proficiency in engaging in a multi-participant collaboration in the community or among professional peers
  • Enhanced negotiation skills for both effective partnering and conflict resolution
Session 3: Rural Practice: Seeing the System

Purpose 

  • Zoom out and strengthen your ability to see individual behaviors and norms in a larger systems perspective through data, analytics and good questions.

Example Outcomes

  • The ability to better understand the patterns of thought and behavior using basic question skills and “sensemaking” question protocols
  • Skill with practical root cause analysis tools and how they can support partnering and collaboration
Session 4: Leading Through Advocacy and Influence

Purpose 

  • Better understand the power of your voice and how to maximize your influence on the interpersonal, community and statewide level.

Example Outcomes

  • Understanding of the opportunities for influence and advocacy on the interpersonal, rural community and statewide levels
  • Identification of specific influence and advocacy skills and, through an assessment, appreciation of personal strengths and development opportunities
Session 5: Caring for Oneself While Caring for Others

Purpose 

  • Draw on your own resilience and learn to be a role model and catalyst for effective self-care among colleagues, patients, and community members.

Example Outcomes 

  • Ability to model wellness and psychological resilience by example through a personal wellness practice
  • Knowledge and skill with a dynamic coaching approach to support self-care behaviors in patients and community members

Tuition and Credits

Cost: $2,600 per participant, plus $25 enrollment fee

CMEs: Amount to be determined

For more information contact: Judiann Smith, Executive Director or Janell Lewis, Director of Leadership Development