This course provides learners with current strategies, theories, and practices in health care communications, develop approaches to effectively communicate within public and private sector and across health care disciplines, identify communication strategies for a variety of audiences including patient, patient family, individual, and group team members, senior team members, funders, external partners, and media. Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to: • Explain time management concepts to facilitate long term thinking as a leader. • Analyze current health care leadership frameworks (ex. LEADS). • Examine the role of emotional intelligence in health care leadership. • Discuss current leadership and management principles. • Assess effects of leading up, across, and down to engage others and build capacity. • Examine the role of leadership in transforming a health care system. • Analyze the role of leaders in creating, operationalizing, and measuring strategic planning and deployment. • Analyze the role of leaders in quality improvement and outcome evaluation. • Plan for future leadership development in self and others. • Recognize the behaviours that support change initiatives to build flexible and productive teams. • Examine the strategic planning process that health care organizations must employ.