Leadership Basics Program
Practical Skills for Emerging Leaders
Registration now open!
The Department of Family and Community Medicine runs an annual accredited leadership program for health professionals that will give you effective and applicable tools to help you become a better leader.
In this exciting workshop series, you will hear from distinguished speakers and learn to identify and analyze your leadership style to help you:
- Build skills to develop rapid strategy
- Learn to navigate difficult conversations
- Manage change within your organization
- Network and engage with others
How many sessions are there? Three sessions running from 2pm-5pm on May 18, 2021, May 27, 2021 and June 10, 2021.
This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario Chapter for up to 22.5 Mainpro+ credits.
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May 18, 2021: Day 1
Day 1: Rapid Development Strategy
The Leadership Basics Day 1 has presenter Cate Creede giving a workshop on Rapid Strategy Development. This session will focus on learning how to work on challenging situations and learn to quickly develop strategy to tackle challenges.
As academics and clinicians, we all have lists of changes and improvements we would like to make, but aren't sure where to start, or how to engage other people in the same direction. This "Rapid Strategy Development" workshop will give you a practical resource to plan and initiate a change quickly and dynamically. Using rapid prototyping and design thinking methodology, we'll do a simulation to create a workable strategy in less than an hour and a half, and unpack how to use this approach for any change you have in mind. The purpose is to give you confidence and clarity about "how do I start?" - and then to create a process for learning and adapting as you implement.
Cate is an experienced change and strategy consultant. Cate supports leadership and personal development through her coaching practice and as an educator: she has been the associate program lead of the New and Evolving Academic Leaders program at the Centre for Faculty Development since 2013, and as co-founder of the Leading Strategic Change and Integration program run by The Potential Group. She holds an adjunct lecturer position in the Division of Psychotherapy, Humanities, and Psychosocial Interventions in the Department of Psychiatry at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a Co-Director of a children’s development project in Uganda called Nikibasika Learning and Development Program
https://www.dfcm.utoronto.ca/event/leadership-basics-day-1
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May 27, 2021: Day 2
Day 2: Leading Difficult Conversations
The Leadership Basics Day 2 has presenter Maja Djikic guiding a workshop on leading difficult conversations during challenging times. This session will focus on learning how communicate effectively, followed by group work on challenging situations.
“The management of tension, conflict, ambiguity, and radical difference between ourselves and others is one of the core skill sets of competent executives. Leadership requires ability to build consensus and execute timely action with others who may hold different perspectives. Times of disruption, like the current COVID pandemic, require a concerted action around a collaborative outcome and highlight the need to build the skills of establishing trust, conflict de-escalation, and conflict resolution. This workshop will help participants map, understand, and, where applicable re-design how they communicate and relate to others in difficult interpersonal situations.”
“Maja is a psychologist specializing in the field of personality development. Her work examines the means of developing a congruent and flexible self. She teaches at Rotman, executives in Advanced Health Leadership Program, UHN’s Academic Hospital Leadership Academy, EMBA for Health and life Sciences and the Sunnybrook Leadership Institute.”
https://www.dfcm.utoronto.ca/event/leadership-basics-day-2
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June 10, 2021: Day 3
Day 3: Promoting Wellness at the Systems Level
The Leadership Basics Day 3 looks at leadership through the lens of Wellness and Resilience. It is an opportunity to hear from our current leaders about their journey, pitfalls and pearls of leadership, followed by a session that explores how to do incremental systematic change lead by Michelle Lockyer, followed by a group work-session to integrate the concepts into daily practice.
Widely accepted, the Quadruple Aim - enhancing patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and improving the work life of health care providers - is now an accepted set of guideposts to optimize health system performance. While much is known and applied to enable the first three, the later, is still trailing far behind. How can your organization begin moving the dial on system level change? How can you foster a culture or wellness and prevent burnout? This workshop provides the practical methodology to approach a seemingly daunting undertaking in an incremental fashion. Dr. Lockyer incorporates the work of Stanford’s Dr. Tate Shanafelt along with her own wealth and variety of knowledge on the topic. You will walk away feeling energized to approach your own organization and lead the way for positive change.
Dr. Michelle Lockyer has been working in provider and learner health and wellness for more than a decade. She is currently the Director of Wellness & Learning Environment at Toronto East Health Network. She is also the Coordinator of Wellness for Family Medicine Residents at the Michael Garron Hospital. She is part of the TAHSN Wellness Steering Committee and now also sits on the TAHSNp IPC - Team Wellness Initiative. Recently, she has joined the OMAs Organizational Wellness Network. Her vision is to drive system levels and cultural change locally, departmentally and beyond.
https://www.dfcm.utoronto.ca/event/leadership-basics-day-3
If you have any questions please email DFCM Faculty Development here