Skill Lab: Strategic Healthcare Leadership

1 unit

The goal of this course is to explore the applications of key strategic leadership principles to healthcare organizations. The Strategic Healthcare Leadership course is designed for students who aspire to leadership roles in healthcare sector organizations. Throughout the course, students will increase both their strategic thinking and leadership capacities with readings, role plays, experiential exercises, as well as self-reflection to sharpen an understanding of the complexity of the healthcare industry and how that complexity impacts effective decision making. The readings are books, case studies, and articles from the general leadership literature, and from the organizational change management literature. The course will be enriched by guest executives who join the discussion and invite you into their world. In their words and from their perspectives, you will experience what it takes to define an organization's strategy from current and former healthcare executives. Finally, the course will provide an opportunity to reflect upon and apply principles learned throughout the course with a small group final project/paper that analyzes what they have learned about strategic leadership in the course.