Friday, January 26, 2024:

1pm - 6pm MST

Leading through Turbulence: New Leadership Style for Today

Leaders in public health and primary care are embracing transformational leadership and emotional intelligence to identify, respond, and lead through turbulent times. Explore, practice, and discover new leadership styles and approaches to promote health equity and drive policy work through interactive group activities.

• Demonstrate transformational leadership by utilizing emotional intelligence (EI).
• Understand the root causes of turbulence in our world.
• Explore new leadership capabilities needed to succeed in turbulent times.
• Discover how to lead change and advance health equity in the face of uncertainty with new leadership approaches.

Friday, February 9, 2024:

1pm - 3pm MST

Leading Organizational Change

Those working and leading in public health or community-based primary care settings should be engaged stakeholders in the organizational change process. Leaders in these spaces must be equipped to understand the impact of change, as well as to assist others in navigating it. Learn key strategies for executing and managing change, addressing resistance to change, and expressing the need and value of change within agencies working to address health equity. 

• Learn key strategies for executing and managing change within public health agencies.
• Identify and address resistance to change.
• Assess the impacts of change.
• Implement strategies to express the need and value of change.

Friday, March 1, 2024:

1pm - 3pm MST

Leading Organizational Change (cont.)

This topic will be covered over the course of two virtual sessions.

Friday, March 15, 2024:

1pm - 5pm MST

Collaboration: Innovative Techniques

Public health and primary care leaders must understand the benefits of cultivating an innovative culture. Explore four proven innovative techniques for collaboration between healthcare and public health organizations.

• Examine the cognitive bias of a fixed mindset towards collaboration.

• Identify opportunities and apply techniques to cultivate creativity and innovation.

• Practice collaborating with cross-sectoral partners to not only solve problems but to create solutions.

Friday, April 5, 2024:

1pm - 5pm MST

Strategic Communication and Collaboration

This session will focus on the fundamentals of strategic communication in public health and primary care to drive change management. It is essential to understand the key elements of strategic communication in health spaces, so participants will be encouraged to identify the differences between earned, paid, and owned media and how to generate a strategic communication media mix for an organization. 

• Explain the concept of strategic communication.
• Differentiate between opportunities and obstacles; visibility and reputation; and competition and opposition.
• Outline the elements of a communication audit and explain the importance of quality performance to strategic planning.
• Identify the characteristics of publics and use examples to illustrate various types of publics.
• Write SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) campaign objectives.
• Explain the importance of effective research design and identify appropriate criteria for evaluative research.

Friday, April 26, 2024:

1pm-4pm MST

Building Resilience

Both organizational and individual resilience are essential elements when leading an organization through change. Leaders must promote and drive a healthy and fair work culture to build employee resilience which in turn will foster organizational resilience. Learn key strategies and tools for enhanced resilience and wellbeing. 

• Understand how organizational resilience builds on individual resilience.

• Identify the major building blocks of healthy leadership and a fair workplace culture.

• Apply learnt strategies and tools to your own workplace.