CMA - SMA Physician Leadership Institute -  2020 Upcoming courses

Engaging Others | February 7-8 - REGINA - Seats are still available!!

Leadership for Medical Women | March 6-7 - REGINA (This course is currently full. Please contact us to have your name added to the waiting list.)

Managing Disruptive Behaviour | April 24-25 - SASKATOON

Conflict Management and Negotiation | October 2-3 - REGINA

Building and Leading Teams | November 27-28 - SASKATOON

For more information, please contact Delilah Dueck (306) 244-2196 or delilah.dueck@sma.sk.ca 

 

Why choose a CMA-SMA In-house PLI course?

No matter where you are in your career - practising physician, medical student or resident - the CMA Physician Leadership Institute (PLI) will prepare you to be a more effective leader. The CMA PLI is the Canadian Medical Association’s leadership development program. With targeted funding, the SMA has brought the CMA PLI series in-house, delivering the courses at a reduced cost to our members.

When you enroll in a CMA PLI course, you can be confident that:

2020 CMA-SMA In-house PLIs

Engaging others

Date: February 7-8, 2020
Location: Regina, SK
Venue: Delta Hotel Regina, 1919 Saskatchewan Dr, Regina SK, S4P 4H2

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Learning Objectives:

At the end of this Physician Leadership Institute course, you will be able to:

• Define engagement and assess your and others engagement in the workplace.
• Describe a strengths-based approach to building engagement.
• Discuss strategies for motivating others and building trust.
• Distinguish dialogue from other forms of discourse.
• Practice powerful listening approaches to discover common ground and mutual insight.
• Prepare the steps required for providing constructive feedback.
• Describe the major principles behind coaching.
   

Leadership for medical women

Date: March 6-7, 2020
Location: Regina, SK
Venue: Delta Hotel Regina, 1919 Saskatchewan Dr, Regina, SK S4P 4H2

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Pay here.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this Physician Leadership Institute course, you will be able to:

• Explore the leadership direction that resonates most strongly with you.
• Leverage your natural strengths to more effectively engage others and address factors that may be limiting your success.
• Identify what influences leadership and recognize both internal and external factors affecting the career progression of medical women today.
• Learn specific strategies to become more effective as a medical woman leader.
• Identify opportunities to drive and support female physician leadership in our current and emerging complex health care system.
   

Managing Disruptive Behaviour

Date: April 24-25, 2020
Location: Saskatoon, SK
Venue: Saskatchewan Medical Association, 201-2174 Airport Dr, Sakatoon, SK S7L 6M6

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Learning Objectives:

At the end of this Physician Leadership Institute course, you will be able to:

• Explain why managing disruptive behaviour has become relevant in today’s workplace.
• Surface unspoken assumptions and beliefs regarding the nature and management of disruptive behaviour.
• Distinguish between disruptive and non-disruptive behaviour.
• Understand the impact of disruptive behaviour.
• Identify elements of workplace/organizational culture which may influence/prompt   disruptive behaviour.
• Identify three key components of a robust Code of Conduct and determine its effectiveness for ensuring workplace justice and for managing disruptive behaviour.
• Summarize national trends regarding disruptive behavior
• Discuss an approach to supporting colleagues and medical leaders
• Apply principles of fairness, compassion and accountability by using a staged approach for resolving incidents of disruptive behaviour.
• Discuss approaches and interventions for managing behavioural problems in the workplace.
• Prepare for and practice a “difficult” feedback conversation.
   

Conflict Management and Negotiation

Date: October 2-3, 2020
Location: Regina, SK
Venue: Delta Hotel Regina, 1919 Saskatchewan Dr, Regina, SK S4P 4H2

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Pay here.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this Physician Leadership Institute course, you will be able to:

• Differentiate between types of conflict and conflict management styles
• Discuss strategies for recognizing and managing conflict situations
• Practice a model of creative collaboration to address conflict with individuals, teams and organizations
• Describe the structures, processes, principles and currencies of effective negotiation
• Develop strategies for managing constituencies and building coalitions
• Practice specific negotiation strategies for real situations
• Analyze the dynamics and politics of effective negotiation
   

Building and Leading Teams 

Date: November 27-28, 2020
Location: Saskatoon, SK
Venue: Saskatchewan Medical Association, 201-2174 Airport Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7L 6M6

Register here.
Pay here.
 

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this Physician Leadership Institute course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the goals and attributes of team leadership;
• Explore the attributes of a high-performing team;
• Discuss how to empower teams and build a team culture;
• Examine the special dynamics of inherited teams;
• Identify the challenges of leading inherited teams that are dysfunctional or high-performing;
• Demonstrate skills to lead both dysfunctional and high-performing inherited teams;
• Diagnose conflict in a team;
• Explore skills needed to manage different kinds of conflict in a team;
• Practice providing timely, direct, and constructive feedback to the team as a group and to individual team members.