Communications

(Sept. 13, 2024) – Plan to join Kansas Hospital Association staff on Oct. 24-25 for a custom Foundations of Leadership Program designed exclusively for KHA participants. This training is designed for a hospital leadership team – administrative, physician and clinical – to attend together. Individual participants are also welcome to attend.

KLC faculty will provide this 1.5-day in-person custom leadership training program that introduces the KLC framework and highlights competencies and principles such as the difference between technical problems and adaptive challenges, the distinction between leadership and authority, making tough interpretations, working across factions, asking powerful questions, managing the heat in any system, creating a trustworthy process and making leadership less risky for others. These concepts will be taught within the context of a specific case or challenge within health care, developed by selected stakeholders before the program with guidance from the KLC teacher. The case will anchor the conversations and provide participants with live opportunities throughout the program to apply the KLC leadership framework to the case study.

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Shift from a primarily technical mindset to a technical and adaptive mindset
• Use KLC's leadership framework to diagnose the gap between concerns and aspirations
• Apply KLC's adaptive skills and tools to a real-world challenge(s)
• Help individuals see new opportunities, seize these opportunities and solve problems faster