Explore the Year-Round Leadership Academy Learning Experience

All in-person sessions take place at PAMED Headquarters, 400 Winding Creek Blvd., Mechanicsburg, PA. 

• April 16, 2027: New Model of Physician Leadership
• June 11, 2027: Teams Building, Managing & Performing
• September 24, 2027: Healthcare Finance in Action
• November 5, 2027: Leading Change and Capstone Project Presentations

Lean Six Sigma training teaches professionals a data-driven, problem-solving methodology that combines Lean (focused on eliminating waste and streamlining processes) with Six Sigma (focused on reducing variations and eliminating defects). Six Sigma training equips individuals to improve organizational efficiency, boost product or service quality, and enhance customer satisfaction across virtually any industry. Participants will complete approximately 30 hours of training across the four sessions designed to prepare participants to pursue a Green Belt certification. Professionals with Green Belt training often serve as project leaders managing localized or small-scale process improvement projects, a common role asked of today’s physician leaders.

• April 17, 2027
• June 12, 2027
• Sept 25, 2027
• Nov 6, 2027 

All Six Sigma will take place at PAMED Headquarters, 400 Winding Creek Blvd., Mechanicsburg, PA. 

Peer Coaching

• Peer mentoring/feedback on current challenges or concerns

Professional Development Coaching

• Online assessment to identify natural talents/strengths
• Review personalized report with coach to discuss professional development opportunities

Performance Coaching

• Promote self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses
• Leverage strengths
• Identify gaps in performance
• Discuss strategies to close or narrow gaps in performance
• Enhance goal setting abilities
• Drive performance based upon goals
• Use the coaching platform to try out new behaviors (practice field)
• Understand the perceptions of others
• Manage the perception of others by engaging in respectful, high impact interpersonal relationships
• Engage in self-reflection and change regarding the costs of leadership such as a lack of sleep, lack of social support, lack of delegation, and lack of constructive coping behaviors placing the leader at risk of burnout

Leadership Competencies Self-Assessment & Improvement Goals

• Self-assess current proficiency in seven leadership competency domains
• Identify areas to strive for improvement and applied skills at the conclusion of the program
• Evaluate success in achieving improvements/skills noted at initial assessment

Reflection Paper

• Describe what you’ve learned about yourself throughout the learning experience
  • Include terms of ROI to your practice environment/patient care
  • Include reference to your personal wellbeing

Building & Managing Virtual Teams – 1 hour

• Assess the dynamics of team management in a virtual space.
• Utilize appropriate technology platform(s) to keep the team connected.
• Build trust, set clear expectations, hold team accountable.

Conflict Resolution & Strategies for Effective Interactions – 1 hour

• Discuss opportunities for productive results through conflict.
• Use effective communication skills when conflicts arise.
• Recognize different conflict styles so you can adapt accordingly.

Creating Great Presentations – .75 hour

• Identify the AIM of your presentation.
• Use an ABA structure to build your presentation.
• Identify strategies to connect with the audience.

Ethical Decision Making – 1 hour

• Explore the framework of how decisions are influenced and made.

Project Management for Physicians – 1 hour

• Assess the key concepts of project management including the PDSA cycle and FMEA.
• Identify key pathways and tools to bring a project from brainstorming to resolution.

Strategic Thinking – 1 hour

• Use forecasting for strategic planning 3-5 years in the future.
• Identify strategic planning tools for the planning processes.
• Engage multiple stakeholders and end users in the process.

Capstone Project

Put your leadership skills into action. Demonstrate value to your organization. Complete a Capstone project specific to your practice setting.

• Outline the nature of the problem to be addressed.
• Discuss your role and how you/others are impacted by this challenge.
• Describe the proposed solution and how this will benefit your practice environment/patient care.
• Develop and implement a plan of action.
• Receive monthly feedback on implementation/progress reports.
• Present a summary of the challenge, implementation plan, and outcome of your project to the cohort.

This educational series will be conducted virtually making it easy and convenient to participate from any location. Our PAMED Connect online community will host article reviews and participant comments while Zoom will be used for synchronous group discussions.

Invest only two hours of your time quarterly for a potential big payoff as we review articles uniquely suited to physicians holding leadership roles and executive positions.

• Assimilate key management knowledge and skills articulated in literature.
• Apply business concepts to transform the health care industry.
• Incorporate management strategies to lead diverse, multi-faceted teams.

The virtual group discussions will include an overview of the articles, a review of the posted discussions and group questions, and will occur via Zoom on the following dates:

• March 16, 2027
• May 18, 2027
• Aug 17, 2027
• Oct 19, 2027

Health care ethics is a set of moral principles, beliefs and values designed to guide providers in making choices about medical care. In the U.S., four main principles define the ethical duties that health care professionals owe to patients. They are:

• Autonomy: to honor the patients right to make their own decision.
• Beneficence: to help the patient advance his/her own good.
• Nonmaleficence: to do no harm.
• Justice: to be fair and treat like cases alike.
  
  

During these virtual discussions we will explore the application of health care ethics as physician leaders and consider issues effecting contemporary medicine.

• March 4, 2027:  7:30 – 8:30 p.m. – Topic TBD
• July 14, 2027:  7:30 – 8:30 p.m. – Topic TBD
• October 6, 2027:  7:30 – 8:30 p.m. – Topic TBD