Certificate in Heroic Leadership in Healthcare
Online Certificate
Designed for all healthcare professionals, this program provides you with an in-depth accounting of your lives as leaders. Over the course of 8 weeks, world-renowned author Chris Lowney and senior executives in healthcare and leadership will bring clarity into your everyday lives, strengthen your capacity to connect with co-workers, teams, and patients, and make deep connections between personal purpose and workplace mission.
Heroic Leadership
Certificate in Heroic Leadership in Healthcare
Online Certificate
Designed for all healthcare professionals, this program provides you with an in-depth accounting of your lives as leaders. Over the course of 8 weeks, world-renowned author Chris Lowney and senior executives in healthcare and leadership will bring clarity into your everyday lives, strengthen your capacity to connect with co-workers, teams, and patients, and make deep connections between personal purpose and workplace mission.
Duration:
8 weeks
Price:
$995
CEUs:
9
Partner:
Shaping a Leadership Mindset That Is Purpose-driven
Today’s challenging global environment requires those in healthcare to recognize their unique leadership capabilities. With hospitals and health systems at a breaking point, every healthcare professional has the opportunity to embrace a leadership mindset that is purpose-driven. The Certificate in Heroic Leadership is designed to help you transition into an innovative, mindful, and purpose-driven leader through the concepts of self-awareness, love, ingenuity, and heroism. We use a unique mobile application developed in partnership with Business Performance Institute (BPI) to provide an immersive learning application to real life. This transforming, hands-on experience will strengthen your interpersonal connections and renew your commitment to what truly matters.
96%
of surveyed graduates would recommend this course to other current/aspiring leaders.96%
of surveyed graduates agreed that the course content and learning objectives were relevant to their leadership development needs.4-6 hours
hours of study expected per week.24 CEs:
are awarded upon graduation, allowing nurses to meet their CE requirements.Learner Outcomes
- Build confidence as a leader to advocate for yourself, your team, and patients
- Find self-fulfillment in your leadership role and build resilience
- Build robust networks needed to secure alignment, resources, and commitments within the health system
System Outcomes
- Elevate team effectiveness and achieve optimal organizational performance
- Shape a workforce that is excited to adapt to disruptive technologies and healthcare trends
- Build an engaged workforce with inspired and inspiring leaders
- Enable better patient care, satisfaction, safety, and reduced medical errors
- Empower leaders to set common goals and define a shared direction
- Succeed in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment
Learner FAQs
Shared Common Competencies
- Leadership
- Communication
- Quality and Patient Experience
- Mental Health, Substance Abuse
- Resilience
- Cultural Engagement
Specialty Areas Supported
Unit-Specific Pathways
- MedSurg-Tele
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU)
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Emergency Room (ER)
- Labor & Delivery (L&D)
- Mother Baby Care (MBC)
- Operating Room (OR)
- Cath Lab
- Hospice
- Behavioral Health
- Critical Access Hospitals
Specific MedSurg Competencies
- Surgical Care
- Integumentary
- Respiratory
- Hematology
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
- Renal
- Endocrine
- Neurological
FAQs
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Curriculum
Unit 1: A Call to Heroic Leadership
- Who is a leader?
- What is heroic leadership?
Unit 2: Self-Awareness Foundations
- Internal indicators
- Self-Awareness 101
- A 16th century hack
Unit 3: Self-Awareness Expansions
- Gratitude
- Suffering
- Self-Awareness and managing others
Unit 4: Ingenuity Through Freedom
- How to be ingenious
- Freedom from…
- Freedom for…
Unit 5: Ingenuity in the Workplace
- Ingenuity in teams
- Where’s the lion?
- To take the shot or not
Unit 6: Love and Leadership
- What love means
- For the good of another
- Transcendence
Unit 7: Love and Teamwork
- Servant leadership
- Loving workplace advice
- Do successful leaders love?
Unit 8: Heroism
- What is heroism?
- How to be more heroic
- Living wholly
- Advice for managers
- Hope and courage
Outcomes
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The Heroic Leadership For All Certificate will develop students’ advanced intellectual and professional skills and provide them with the ability to:
- Develop self-awareness of one’s own strengths, weaknesses, values, and purpose and how these connect to, and manifest in the workplace
- Put into practice strategies to improve performance according to one’s own values, purpose, and personal goals
- Develop as an ingenious leader who adapts to, and drives, change
- Identify patterns of behavior and thinking that detract from meeting one’s own personal goals, professional and otherwise
- Practice decision-making in workplace contexts
- Improve interactions with co-workers, teams, and patients by improving how we ourselves treat others as love-driven leaders
- Develop hope and courage to go beyond in the everyday workplace in ways big and small
- Make deep connections between personal purpose and the mission of the workplace
- Recognize everyday heroism in the workplace
Learning Environment
- All coursework is 100% online. This program does not require you to attend a live class or meetup.
- Out of respect for the complexity of healthcare work schedules, we do not require learners to meet live.
- Everything can be completed from the comfort of your own home, office, and on various devices including your mobile device.
- Students will be part of a small cohort led by an experienced instructor. Our expert instructors have incredible backgrounds with vast healthcare experience.
- Each learner receives personalized feedback from their instructor and engages with them regularly through online discussions.
What do Learners Earn?
- Once you graduate, a certificate is provided by Leavey School of Business, a part of Santa Clara University.
- The Certificate in Heroic Leadership carries CEs. You can earn up to nine credit hours upon successful completion of the program.
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About Santa Clara University
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University blends high-tech innovation with a social consciousness grounded in the Jesuit educational tradition. Committed to leaving the world a better place, they pursue new technology, encourage creativity, engage with their communities, and share an entrepreneurial mindset to help shape the next generation of leaders and global thinkers.
The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University is more than just executive education. We develop ethical leaders who grapple with the complexities of the modern business environment to create better outcomes and a more just world. We will equip your team with the skills they need to drive business forward.
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