Mayo Clinic Values Based Leadership

Summary

The Mayo Clinic Values Based Leadership course is a cohort-based program taking place over 14 weeks. This course provides a proven and practical implementation model for healthcare leadership transformation.

Through interactive study, learners develop and hone skills that support values-based leadership to inspire and engage colleagues, drive results, and create a culture of innovation.

The cohort-based model includes live interaction with Mayo Clinic leadership and networking with fellow healthcare leaders from around the globe. Learners will engage in live webinars held regularly throughout the course to discuss leadership issues and how to engage in decision-making using your organization’s values.

Case studies, discussion boards, practical insights and vibrant discussions are used to demonstrate Mayo Clinic’s strategies, models and methods of leadership and to explore how to best create a dynamic and changing environment in your organization that drives exceptional patient care, evolves organizations, influences practitioner change and ignites a culture that fosters brilliant innovation every day.

This course contains 14 weeks of video instruction, interactive webinars and discussion boards; as well as a large group case study discussion.

Topics covered include:

• Mayo Clinic Model of Leadership: lessons from more than 150 years of experience
• Inspiring values: practical applications and meeting patient needs during disruptive events
• Leadership: professionalism, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence
• Engaging colleagues: managing interprofessional teams, reflection, quality, patient safety accountability, conflict resolution, diversity equity and inclusion, and more
• Driving results: balancing metrics with action plans, financial risk analysis, working with boards, cross-disciplinary leadership, and strategic planning
• Innovation: using design and agile thinking to create a culture of change management and innovation

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After completing the program, learners will be able to:

• Summarize leadership literacy skills needed to enhance an individual's response to common challenges in healthcare.
• Recognize the traits of leaders that attract and motivate followers.
• Identify leadership skills essential to managing interprofessional teams.
• State leadership skills needed to navigate a matrixed organization.

This course is designed for healthcare administrators, physicians, nurses and other clinical leaders looking to advance their institutional and personal leadership skills. Course content is relevant for all healthcare leadership positions.

Course faculty includes experienced healthcare leaders from Mayo Clinic and other institutions.

Course Directors

	Nadia N. Laack, M.D. Dr. Nadia Laack is the Professor and the Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology. She is the Vice-Chair of the Radiation-Children’s Oncology Group Bone Tumor Committee in addition to a committee member for the Ewing Sarcoma, Osteosarcoma and Neurotoxicity groups. In addition to pediatrics she has focused her clinical practice and research endeavors on central nervous system tumors. She is known for her work in incorporating advanced imaging in adult and pediatric brain radiotherapy.
	Sandhya Pruthi, M.D. Dr. Sandhya Pruthi is the Medical Director for the Division of Health Education and Content Services and serves as the Chief Medical Editor for the MayoClinic.org website. She is an Associate Medical Director for the Department of Development. Dr. Pruthi also serves as Medical Director for Continuous Professional Development Curriculum and Content Services. Dr. Pruthi’s research and clinical expertise are in breast cancer prevention and management of women at increased risk for breast cancer, hereditary breast, and ovarian cancer risk, and providing preoperative counseling to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. She is Mayo Clinic's principal investigator on several national breast cancer prevention and biomarker trials aimed at reducing the risk of breast cancer.
	Charanjit S. Rihal, M.D. Dr. Chet Rihal is a Clinical Cardiologist specializing in interventional cardiology, with a focus on new device therapies for the minimally invasive treatment of valve and structural heart disease. As a physician-leader, he has served as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and was Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases from 2010 to 2018 following which he chaired the Rochester Personnel Committee. Currently he serves on the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors of Mayo Clinic and chairs the institutional People and Culture Committee where he partners with the CHRO to develop programs relevant to Mayo's 76,000 people.
	Tripp J. Welch Tripp Welch is the Administrator for the Program in Professionalism and Values at Mayo Clinic, promoting the core value, "The needs of the patient come first." He is a member of the Mayo Clinic Values Council, Leadership Lecture Series Steering Committee, Committee for Employee Well-Being, and Consumer Digital Platform Advisory Committee. Previously, Tripp served as the Vice Chair of Quality with oversight of Patient Experience and Health Equity and Inclusion. He has held various roles over his 30-year career at Mayo Clinic, including Clinical Administrator, Research Administrator, Section Head in Human Resources, and Marketing Consultant, beginning his tenure in 1996 as an Administrative Fellow.