HLTH 425 Team Leadership in a Healthcare Environment

This course focuses on the main responsibilities of a manager or supervisor, which is to lead their team and to provide the motivation, information, structure and skills to achieve organizational goals. Students will learn how to improve the direction, motivation, and goal achievement for their teams and their organizations. Students are introduced to research perspectives on leadership, the personal side of leadership, leader as a relationship builder as well as the leader as a social architect. This course responds to the need to mentor and coach ways to interact with staff, patients and family members in developing coconscious or acceptance for treatment and services that could benefit the patient.