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Expires: 09/30/2025 (11:55 PM CST)
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Overview
The AANP Introductory Certificate on Leadership is a leadership fundamentals program directed toward new and emerging leaders. This 12-module course explore topics associated with leadership skills including emotional intelligence, communication, change, entrepreneurship, time management, mentoring, creating a culture of safety, organizational leadership, ethics, leadership styles, leading teams and incivility. These are one-hour, didactic modules, and you will need to complete all 12 bundled modules to earn the AANP Introduction to Leadership Certificate.
This 12-module course is also a prerequisite for admittance into the AANP Executive Leadership Program. In partnership with curriculum from George Washington University (GWU) and offering approximately 50 hours of continuing education, the executive leadership program is the best way for NPs to take their leadership skills to the next level! Learn more about the AANP Executive Leadership Program.
This activity was offered in full at the AANP 2023 Fall Conference. If you attended all of these sessions live at the conference or as part of the virtual on-demand conference, you may not receive credit for this same content via this enduring format.
Session Descriptions and Objectives
Expanding Your Emotional Intelligence
Recognize and positively manage emotions in yourself, others and among groups.
Objectives:
- Understand yourself and learn how to make your emotions work for you.
- Gain awareness of how your behavior impacts others.
- Expand your leadership capacity and create an environment that fosters emotional intelligence.
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Leading, Building High Performance Teams
The presentation will provide the NP knowledge to apply leadership skills to design organizational and professional health care change through collaborative, intra-professional groups and team building skills.
Objectives:
- Apply or adapt your leadership style to meet specific challenges.
- Manage the conditions that drive team performance.
- Coach colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver.
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Identifying Your Leadership Style
Present the common leadership styles and characteristics of effective leaders.
Objectives:
- Explore leadership as a theory.
- Examine personal leadership styles as they have evolved over time (e.g., traits, distinctive styles, and approaches).
- Understand the application of leadership theories and styles to current and future leadership roles.
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Power, Influence and Positive Impact
Discuss the influencers of making positive impact in health care to make changes and advocate for nurse practitioners.
Objectives:
- Cultivate power to make an impact.
- Develop influence skills to shift power dynamics.
- Build networks as a source of power.
- Learn the dimensions of influence, power, authority and politics.
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Navigating Organizational Leadership
Raise your leadership skills to take your organization to the next level. Communicate purpose and vision, and inspire your organization to execute that vision. Elevate your leadership style to meet the distinct challenges of leading larger, more geographically dispersed, and diverse teams. Extend the reach of your influence by leading through other managers.
Objectives:
- Communicate purpose and vision, and inspire your organization to execute on that vision.
- Elevate your leadership style to meet the distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams.
- Extend the reach of your influence by leading through other managers.
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Managing Your Boss
Discuss and apply leadership skills to mange your work environment, effectively communicate with difficult leaders and make changes to improve the health care environment.
Objectives:
- Learners will explore how to effectively manage the communications process with your boss and executive management.
- Participants will learn how to discover their boss’s priorities and style.
- Participants will learn how best to communicate with your boss.
- Participants will discover the best ways to critique your boss.
- Participants will discover how not to manage up.
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Ethics for Leaders
Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions.
Objectives:
- Develop a framework for understanding the responsibilities leaders have to their customers, employees, external stakeholders, and society.
- Determine and deliver on your economic, legal, clinical, and ethical responsibilities.
- Formulate a plan to address conflicts and communicate the “why” behind your decisions.
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Strategy Execution
Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to implement strategy within your organization successfully. Apply frameworks, tools, goal-setting, and tracking exercises to your strategic initiatives. Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution. Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control.
Objectives:
- Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives.
- Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution.
- Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control.
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The Emerging Leader: Making the Leap from Individual Contributor to Management
Take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader.
Objectives:
- Explain how functions of a Manager differ from an Individual Contributor.
- Learn and employ the three imperatives of management.
- Building a healthy and productive relationships with subordinates.
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Leadership, Passion and Vision
Learn about why passionate leadership matters in today's health care environment. In this presentation you will learn more about the importance of having a passion for your work, using this to turn your vision into a reality and building passion in your employees.
Objectives:
- Participants will learn why passionate leadership matters.
- Participants will discover the importance of personal passion in leadership.
- Participants will learn to use passion to turn vision into reality.
- Participants will learn how to build passion in employees.
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Managing Time: Where Did the Day Go?
There is enough time in a day! Learn the most effective ways to manage it. This presentation is designed to help you identify personal time wasters, deal with self-distractions and interruptions and create boundaries.
Objectives:
- Identify personal time wasters; dealing with self-distractions and interruptions.
- Define goals; establish important and valid priorities.
- Create boundaries and balance.
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Management Essentials
Learn the four critical managerial processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management. Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made. Design, direct, and shape administrative processes to your advantage. Spearhead learning initiatives that enable your organization to improve, innovate and scale.
Objectives:
- Identify the distinction between leadership and management.
- Discuss key management functions.
- Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made.
- Discuss critical leadership success factors.
- Design, direct, and shape organizational processes to your advantage.
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Speakers- Cynthia Edwards-Tuttle, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, EMBA
- Joyce Knestrick, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
- Blair Johnson, MBA, MBB
- Amy K. McCarthy, MSN, RNC-MNN, NE-BC
Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
This educational activity may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience. The activity may contain discussion of published and/ or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Further, attendees/ participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
Disclaimer
Individuals who have contributed to the CE Center were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
To Receive Continuing Education Credit and receive the AANP Introductory Certificate in Leadership:- Complete all 12 Leadership Certificate modules of this course:
- View each presentation consecutively.
- Click the Next Steps button on the parent-module of this activity:
- Complete the overall activity evaluation.
- Click on the Get Certificate button to view/download/print a copy of your certificate.
Additional Information
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