Designed exclusively for the frontline manager of five years or less experience in the health care workplace

Too often, managers are promoted with minimal, if any, training in "How To Be A Manager." The Judith Briles Health Care Leadership Forum delivers an intensive training that focuses on developing the soft people skills that just don't come naturally:

• Emotional intelligence
• Confidence-building techniques
• Effective communications, including communicating across generations
• Mentoring others
• Conflict management and resolution
• Change management
• An understanding of financial impacts resulting from management decision or indecision
• The manager's role as a change catalyst and a visionary leader
• Resolving staff retention issues
• Identifying and dealing with red-ink behavior

None of these skills just happen, nor are they acquired overnight. And, contrary to popular practice, they are not learned by osmosis either.  They must be taught...

Poor management skills negatively affect the workplace and the bottom line:

In a recent health care study, 45% of participants reported that they had quit a position because of abusive behavior from their managers!

The goal of the Forum is to create an environment where new managers can learn a variety of soft skills that can be implemented immediately

The end result is the creation of a workplace of choice, high retention and minimal conflict. Case studies are used to propel the participants into a problem-solving mode. Each one brings their own situations to the Forum; unifying stories that transcend differences in the room.

Within the Forum's comfortable, intimate environment, strong bonds develop between participants over the two days that last a career lifetime!

Regular sessions are held at the offices of Dr. Judith Briles in Metro-Denver, Colorado and conducted by Judith. Participants come from a cross-section of hospitals based world-wide. Together the participants brainstorm using the following learned devices, skills, tools and techniques:

• Truth-telling and truth-listening
• Using conflict as a resource for creative thinking
• Decreasing turf wars and ego battles
• Sharing resources effectively
• Leaving victim stories behind
• Building trust, compassion, and personal responsibility

The result is a long-term and expansive network of reliable managers with whom they can connect, cross-coach and mentor.

Creating Collaborative Behaviors for Bottom-Line Results

At the conclusion, participants will be prepared to apply their newly-learned skills and start dealing with workplace issues that are too often ignored and that lead to toxicity in the workplace. They will be able to communicate, anticipate, troubleshoot, and provide solutions - they will be able to manage!

Tuition

$900 for 2 days

$1200 for 2 days if signed up within 2 weeks.

Includes all books, supplies, daily meals

Advance Registration: $900 for 2-day session
(Tuition paid two weeks prior to Forum)

Late Registration: $1,200 for 2-day session

** For groups of three or more, ask about special pricing!

Lodging & Transportation

Special all-inclusive rates have been arranged at the full service Radisson Hotel Denver Southeast. The Radisson will provide shuttle service to and from Denver International Airport, and to and from The Forum conference center. The package includes breakfast, newspaper, access to the health club.

Rates are $89 per person per night based on single room occupancy.