How to Become an Effective Leader: Key Skills for Leading, Influencing, and Managing Change

TIME: 2.5HRS

How to Become an Effective Leader

Key Skills for Leading, Influencing, and Managing Change

This course will describe the attributes needed to become an effective leader and how to learn and develop the required skills and traits. Physicians will also learn how to decide whether a leadership job will be a satisfactory role for them, how to motivate other physicians to help execute a vision, and how to deal with team members or colleagues who create conflict or disagreement. This course will cover:

The right—and wrong—reasons to be a leader
Key communication skills for success
Influencing peers and upper management
Dealing with those who resist change
Finding the best leadership role for your goals

5 CHAPTERS

Why Do You Want to Be a Leader?

Take the first steps to a leadership position in your organization by learning key traits and training required.

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Building Personal Relationships

To be an effective leader, you have to establish trust with your colleagues as well as quell conflict and anxiety.

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Influencing Peers and Upper Management

The power of persuasion is a key skill for leaders. Successful persuasion includes negotiation, collaboration, and building relationships.

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Managing Change

Change is never easy, and the way you oversee it will be a big part of your work as a physician-leader.

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How to Get a Position as a Physician Leader

With various leadership roles available for doctors, it's important to pick the right one and have the right skills to meet the new challenge.

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AUTHORS

Rosemarie Nelson, MS

Independent healthcare consultant, Jamesville, New York

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PHYSICIAN BUSINESS ACADEMY

Medscape Physician Business Academy is designed to help all physicians, employed and self-employed as well as new and more established practicing physicians, become successful in their medical practice and career by providing the essential business information that most medical schools and residency programs don't teach.

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COURSE BENEFITS

BY COMPLETING 8 COURSES YOU WILL RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION. AFTER COMPLETING EACH COURSE, YOU’LL RECEIVE A LETTER OF COMPLETION.

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