Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Productive Communication Skills
  • Leadership Communication
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is designed to provide you with the communication skills needed to help you take the next step up in your organization.  After taking this course, you will be able to reach a positive outcome with those you supervise by understanding personal communication style differences, using turn-taking effectively, noticing facial expressions which may signal emotions, and maintaining an appropriate body posture when communicating.
Managerial Communications
  • Leadership Communication
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Upon completion of this course, the user will be able to demonstrate written and oral communication skills that are needed as a leader in a health department by:identifying communication skillslisting effective presentation skillsdistinguishing different writing techniques
Risk Communication in Public Health Emergencies
  • Leadership Communication
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is an introduction to risk and crisis communication during a public health emergency. The latest theory from the literature and applied concepts from agency recommendations are covered. This course is a hands-on, case-study based application of risk communication theory and practice. Theory and concepts are taught in the context of extensive examples and practice problems interspersed throughout the lectures.
Negotiating Skills for Changing Times
  • Leadership Communication
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:In today’s quickly changing, dynamic, and sometimes-volatile health care environment, negotiation skills are more important than ever before. In this course, participants will learn how to negotiate better agreements and resolve conflicts more effectively, while developing better inter-professional relationships in the process.
Leadership Management Communication
  • Leadership Communication
  • 3.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:No matter how effective a leader/manager you already are, this course is designed to refresh and refine the skills needed to lead your teams to success in today’s fast-paced and stressful health care environment. By exploring effective leadership styles and strategies, this course provides specific tools to enhance leadership/management communication.
Transition from Management to Leadership
  • Leadership Development
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course is intended to give the participant an overview of the characteristics and skill sets for both managers and leaders. It is intended to help the participants reflect on their own career and how they view themselves and to reflect on where they are in their professional development. This course is intended to broaden the view of what both managers and leaders do and how they think.
Futures Methods For Public Health Leaders
  • Leadership Development
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course teaches how public health leaders can use futures methods. The methods include tapping into the aspiring mind of people working in public health to project a vision and to look more objectively at trends and scenarios that help assess likely changes affecting the future of public health. These methods also include looking to alternative futures and then taking the perspective of looking back toward the present from the vantage point of future scenarios to identify goals and milestones.
Creating a Context for Change: Leading through Organizational Development
  • Leadership Development
  • 4.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Learners participating in this web-based course will focus on leadership effectiveness particularly in terms of facilitating innovation and change within an organization and achieving an organizational context that is conducive to continuous improvement and a never-ending commitment to excellence. As effective leaders, we strive to create a shared vision of the future and then mobilize people, processes, and resources to achieve that vision.
Decision Making: A Systematic and Organized Approach
  • Leadership Development
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:The course discusses the nature of qualitative decision making and explains how the complexity of decisions often overwhelms our cognitive capabilities. To deal with dynamic complexity, decision makers need to adopt a structured decision making process that aids in identifying alternative course of action and the major factors which are influencing the decision. The course provides and discusses a method for structuring each step in the decision making process and provides examples of the using the process.
Civic Engagement
  • Leadership Development
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Current economic uncertainty continues to limit the public funds available to deal with critical public health issues. Challenges and problems, and the solutions to them, are increasingly becoming the responsibility of local and regional communities. And as community populations become increasingly more diverse in race, religion, and socio-economic status, new strategies and tools are needed to get people and organizations to agree on a plan and work together to achieve it.

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