Leadership Development Series
The Leadership Development Series for Long Term Care
Managers is a 40-hour course is designed to help all
members of the leadership team strengthen their working
relationships toward improving the overall effectiveness
of the nursing home. Throughout the series, leadership
personnel, managers and supervisors from all departments
learn to understand and enhance the unique gifts that
each contributes to the team.
Each class session focuses on a particular area of importance
to both new and seasoned managers. Interactive participation
encourages application of the learning concepts to practical
situations found everyday in a resident-centered, community-oriented
nursing home environment.
Ten 4-Hour Sessions Cover the Following
Topics |
| Session 1 |
Effective Leadership |
| Session 2 |
Communication |
| Session 3 |
Conflict Resolution |
| Session 4 |
Teams & Teamwork |
| Session 5 |
Job Coaching |
| Session 6 |
Effective Delegation |
| Session 7 |
Cultural Awareness |
| Session 8 |
Performance Appraisal |
| Session 9 |
Time & Stress Management |
| Session 10 |
Change Management |
Tailored to the needs of the long term care profession,
the learning series...
- Supports leadership values that include promoting
trust, respecting individuality, and treating staff
as we want staff to treat residents
- Explores communication and conflict in terms of perceptions
and assumptions, individual styles and useful strategies
for negotiating Win-Win agreements
- Discusses stages of team development, as well as
how having a variety of individual strengths and team
player styles among members benefits the entire team
to achieve organizational goals
- Examines performance appraisals and job coaching
as valuable tools to: promote employee development,
identify factors contributing to marginal performance,
set clear expectations, and provide constructive support
and feedback for performance improvement
- Explores common barriers to delegation and offers
guidance for deciding what to delegate, to whom, and
with appropriate levels of responsibility and authority
to carry out the delegated tasks
- Stresses the importance of cultural awareness to
promoting a level of understanding between people to
be able to work with and for each other with respect
and harmony
- Addresses the importance of managing our time in
a way that integrates commitments with values and relationships,
and focuses on how stress reveals itself in our lives
as well as techniques for coping with it
- Supports a positive approach to dealing with changes
that are so much a part of our everyday experience,
and helps us remove barriers that contribute to difficult
transitions which are so often accompanied by feelings
of loss and turmoil
Item Code: LDS
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