Who should register
This program is designed for any pharmacist who has identified a need for; and wants to be a catalyst in creating practice change.
The prospect of leading practice change can be overwhelming! Learn from best selling leadership authors. Take a tour of popular leadership books, survey their findings, debate their recommendations and brainstorm on the implications for practice change in pharmacy. Learn about leveraging your personal strengths, creating value through the leadership of yourself, propelling your organization from “Good to Great” and facilitating the change process as you go.
This innovative continuing education program guides you through the authors you’ve been meaning to read! (Note: Books are not included in the cost of the program.) Taking part in the entire program exposes you to six unforgettable leadership best sellers over the next year. You’ll begin by examining your strengths as a leader, and your role in grassroots leadership. Then, move on to strategies for preparing yourself for leadership and visioning change. |
Program Design
Learning materials are organized into modules, and there are a total four (4) modules. Content modules consist of various instructional materials, including: study guides, executive summaries, presentations, interviews, optional resources for further study and self-evaluation questions. Participants are required to pass (70%) a quiz at the end of the each module, in addition to completing an assignment. While the curriculum is designed to be completed in the order it is released, this is not required.
Participants can log in and access the learning materials 24 hours/day-7 days/week, at their convenience during the course offering.
You can subscribe to the year long series (all four (4) modules) at a reduced rate, or personalize your learning with a combination of modules that fits your needs. While the curriculum is designed to be taken as the modules are released, it is not required. The first module will be available starting in February 2008. Subsequent modules will be released as stated below over the coming year. Once the modules are released, you can complete them at any time, 24/7, for twelve months from the release. Note: Books are not included in the cost of the program.
Module 1
(10 CE Credits)
Your Leadership Strengths
Scheduled release date: February 18, 2008
Completed by: February 18, 2009
031-000-08-005-H04-P
Read Now, Discover Your Strengths, Buckingham and Cifton’s revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. The heart of the text is a StrengthsFinder® Profile, a 25-year effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths.
Objectives:
- Describe the major findings of Gallup's research around strengths
- Explain your five Signature Themes and their implications for your work in pharmacy
- Describe methods to manage around your weaknesses
- Explain how the great managers assist their employees in using their strengths, as detailed by Gallup's research
- Outline critical systems required to support a strengths-based organization
 Book: Now, Discover Your Strengths
Note: You must purchase a new copy of this book in order to complete the StrengthsFinder® Profile. Do not purchase a used copy.
Module 2 (10 CE Credits)
Understanding/Defining Grassroots Leadership
Scheduled release date: April 14, 2008
Completed by: April 14, 2009
031-000-08-006-H04-P
Daily leadership decisions rarely occur at the top of the organization, rather ordinary choices happen at a grassroots level by average employee/manager. The Fred Factor introduces us to the mail carrier who loves his job and genuinely cares about the people he serves. Learn the four basic principles that will bring energy and creativity to your life and work: how to make a real difference everyday, how to become more successful by building strong relationships, how to create real value for others without spending a penny, and how to constantly reinvent yourself. Coupled with Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box; you will learn how the process of self-deception works--and how to avoid it and stay in touch with our innate sense of what's right.
Objectives:
- Articulate the impact that small efforts can have in creating significant value in pharmacy.
- List and describe the four “Fred Principles”
- Explain the four variables involved in developing Freds within pharmacy organizations
- Describe how “self-deception” plays a role in limiting one’s ability to influence
- Identify methods for limiting the effects of self-deception in your professional work
 Book: The Fred Factor
 Book: Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box
Module 3 (10 CE Credits)
Positioning Yourself for Leading Change
Scheduled release date: June 2, 2008
Completed by: June 2, 2009
031-000-08-007-H04-P
Utilizing John Kotter’s fable of Antarctic penguins facing danger in Our Iceberg is Melting; you will study the framework for an effective corporate change initiative that addresses corporate culture, group dynamics and the challenges of change. You will also read Leadership on the Line, an encouragingly practical guide to putting yourself on the line and negotiating the hazards of leadership.
Objectives:
- Describe methods to “Get on the Balcony” and “Think Politically” when involved in change
- Detail four techniques for orchestrating conflict during change
- Use skills in issue ripening and focusing to hold steady during change
- Articulate the eight step process for successful change and apply it in a pharmacy context
 Book: Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
 Book: Our Iceberg is Melting
Module 4 (10 CE Credits)
Visioning and Implementing Change
Scheduled release date: September 29, 2008
Completed by: September 29, 2009
031-000-08-008-H04-P
Ever wonder what the difference is between those organizations that are "doing well" and those organizations that are "blowing away the competition"? Further understand how organizations make the transformation from good performance to great performance and how you can be a part of that transformation as we read Jim Collins' best seller
Good to Great. Utilizing this book, you will take a deeper look at the characteristics of great organization's and characterize their leadership, their workforce, culture, and how they breakthrough to greatness.
Objectives:
- Describe a process for creating transformational change in organizations.
- Outline the key determinants of organizational “greatness”
- Apply the key determinants of organizational greatness in your circle of influence.
 Book: Good to Great
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Program Schedule
Each module will be available on the scheduled release date. Please register at least one week prior to the release.
Module 1- Your Leadership Strengths-10 CE Credits
Scheduled release date: February 18, 2008
Module 2-Understanding/Defining Grassroots Leadership-10 CE Credits
Scheduled release date: April 14, 2008
Module 3-Positioning Yourself for Leading Change-10 CE Credits
Scheduled release date: June 2, 2008
Module 4-Visioning and Implementing Change-10 CE Credits
Scheduled release date: September 29, 2008
Once module is released you have the flexibility to work through it at your own pace. The entire module must be completed in order to earn CE credits.
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The University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy is approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of Continuing Education. Each module is approved for 10 hours of CE credit. Following successful completion (70%) of exams and completion of the program evaluation, statements will be mailed to participants within four weeks of the last day of the course. The Universal Program Numbers are 031-000-08-005-H04-P; 031-000-08-006-H04-P; 031-000-08-007-H04-P; 031-000-08-008-H04-P. Initial release: February 2008, April 2008, June 2009 and September 2008