Strategic Healthcare LeadershipCornell Certificate Program

Healthcare organizations often approach management much like patient care: swiftly identifying symptoms, diagnosing problems, and developing a treatment plan or solution. While this technique works for day-to-day operations, it falls short when it comes to evaluating organizational well-being and planning for long-term growth. To create successful strategic plans, healthcare leaders must adopt a broader perspective — one that balances service delivery with sound business strategies.

This course introduces several proven frameworks to help you build a strategic plan that aligns with your organizational mission and vision. You will map your organization's position by evaluating internal strengths and weaknesses, analyzing external opportunities and threats, and categorizing products and services. By collecting and interpreting the right data, you'll be empowered to set organizational priorities, identify growth opportunities, and ensure your strategic plan drives both profitability and long-term success.

Strategic planning can set the course for organizational success, but many healthcare groups struggle to implement their plans effectively. Common issues, like unclear accountability, lack of measurable outcomes, or inadequate reporting, can stall even the best ideas. To overcome these barriers, leaders must create strategic plans that translate vision into action.

In this course, you will apply organizational insights to develop a comprehensive and actionable strategic plan. You'll begin the course by preparing for a strategic planning retreat, including identifying key stakeholders, collecting data, and crafting an agenda. From there, you'll establish clear organizational goals and strategies while determining the who, what, when, and how for achieving them. Finally, you'll explore how to monitor progress, report on outcomes, and refine strategies to keep your plan aligned with the organization's mission and values.

The ability to make effective and timely decisions is an essential skill for successful executives. Mastery of this skill influences all aspects of day-to-day operations as well as strategic planning. In this course, developed by Professor Robert Bloomfield, Ph.D. of Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, you will hone your decision-making skills by following a methodology based on tested actions and sound organizational approaches. You will leave this course better equipped to confidently tackle any decision large or small, and you'll do so in a way that creates the optimal conditions for success.

All leadership is change leadership. Good leadership isn't about stagnation; it's about moving ahead. In this course, Cornell University's Professor Samuel Bacharach, Ph.D., explores the fundamental, practical skills that effective leaders have mastered.

Effective change leaders do three things; they anticipate where things are moving, they facilitate the implementation of change, and they sustain momentum by taking charge and moving things ahead. Great change leaders know how to be both proactive and reactive, as Professor Bacharach explains. Students in this course will examine their own leadership styles and practice skills that will help them translate ideas into organizational results, find ways to overcome organizational inertia, and examine strategies for overcoming individual resistance to change.

Leaders at every level need to be able to execute on their ideas. In virtually every case, this means that leaders need to be able to persuade others to join in this execution. In order to do so, understanding how to create and utilize power in an organization is critical.

In this course, developed by Professor Glen Dowell, Ph.D., of Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, students will focus on their personal relationship with power as well as how power works in their organization and social network.

Project Management Institute (PMI^®) Continuing Certification: Participants who successfully complete this course will receive 6 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from PMI^®. Please contact PMI ^® for details about professional project management certification or recertification.