Supported by the Cardinal Health Foundation and conducted by Boston University at the Executive Leadership Center, Boston University, in cooperation with the ASHP Foundation's Center for Health-System Pharmacy
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Program Goal
The Pharmacy Leadership Institute uses relevant program curriculum, high-quality instruction, and peer interaction to broaden business skills, managerial versatility, and the extraordinary leadership demanded of today's accomplished leaders in health-system pharmacy. Key to this objective is the development of a new way of thinking and a new set of behaviors.

Who Should Attend?
The Pharmacy Leadership Institute seeks to bring together highly motivated individuals with considerable professional and management experience that are leading or positioning themselves to lead a pharmacy enterprise. Participants will have opportunities to share their expertise, complementary skill sets, and work and life perspectives with each other. Furthermore, peer interaction and networking will help carry the program benefits back into the workplace.

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The following questions will be explored:
• How can I become a more empowered leader for my success and the success of my employees?
• How can I have a positive impact in patient medication safety?
• How can I lead better by developing and using influence and negotiation more successfully?
• How can I leverage the role of my department more strategically in the organization?
• How can I improve my management and leadership skills to meet the needs of a changing workplace?
• How can I foster creative thinking and innovation within the current framework of my organization?
• How do I continue to challenge and motivate my employees?


Program Objectives
The Pharmacy Leadership Institute uses an integrated curriculum centered around today’s issues and the skills needed for tomorrow. It is a rigorous, demanding program that through the convergence of classroom and real-world situations seeks to:
 
• Develop visionary leaders who can inspire people to make significant contributions and move their organization forward.
• Promote innovative, out-of-the-box thinking.
• Energize accomplished managers with new insights, information, and strategies to tackle the challenges of an increasingly complex environment.
• Equip participants for the roles of coach, teacher, motivator and strategist.
• To move participants from their comfort zones, to expand their focus and thinking beyond pharmacy practice, and to foster their development of visionary leadership skills.
• To provide a high-quality, academic environment (not a pharmacy-centric environment).
• Provide a forum to enhance the transfer of knowledge and learning.
• Enable critical examination of roles and required leadership skills.
• Address individual capabilities that are not part of typical career development.
• Link strategic thinking and behavior as well as organizational action.
• Develop and implement a project related to a challenging work issue within the National Quality Forum framework for Pharmacy Leadership. 


Learning Objectives
After participating in this application-based continuing pharmacy education (CE) activity, participants should be able to: 

1. Discuss the impact of the larger macro-environment on strategy and organizational positioning.
2. Describe the structures and dynamics of negotiation, conflict and power in organizations.
3. Outline a framework for examining marketing issues and delivering superior value to target customers.
4. Discuss the influence of mentoring and coaching on the development of motivational environments at work.
5. Explain how technology investments have the power to create new strategic options for organizations.
6. Identify the barriers to change with organizations.
7. Discuss the business problems of disintermediation.
8. Describe the interplay between decision processes and outcomes.
9. Explain how to build coalitions, create high-performance organizations and lead in the middle of the relentless pressures for efficiency and cost reduction.


Content Areas 
Through classroom presentations, case study analyses, and small group work, the Pharmacy Leadership Institute addresses the following content areas:

• Leveraging Strategy
• Leading in Turbulent Times
• Strategic Implementation Project
• Promoting Value through Pharmacy Services in Transformed Environment
• Business Transformation I: From Evolution to Revolution
• Engaging the C-Suite for Change
• Business Transformation II: From Evolution to Revolution
• Fostering Innovation and Change
• Negotiation and Collaboration
• Coaching and Feedback
• The Power of One/All


Pharmacy Leadership Project
The project is a participant-driven initiative focused on a leadership challenge and/or strategic issue the participant faces relative to the medication-management system within the context of the participant’s own organization.  The project will connect the PLI curriculum with the “real world” issues faced by the participant and will serve as an anchor for post-program collaboration with other PLI participants, faculty, and PLI alumni who will serve as project mentors. 


Boston University
The Executive Leadership Center within Boston University's School of Management is the host for the Pharmacy Leadership Institute because of its high-caliber faculty and commitment to furthering the education of professionals. It offers a state-of-the-art facility equipped with the latest technological and classroom advancements. The prestigious faculty of Boston University offers program participants a perspective that, while applicable to the profession of pharmacy, reaches far beyond pharmacy practice.


Faculty
Please click on the links below for more information about the Institute's faculty members:

• Karen Golden-Biddle, M.B.A., Ph.D.
• Lloyd Baird, Ph.D., M.B.A.
• William Kahn, Ph.D., M.B.A.
• Michael Lawson, Ph.D.
• John F. (Jack) McCarthy, M.B.A., D.B.A.
• Melvin A. J. Menezes, Ph.D., M.B.A.
• Holly Phillips, Pharm.D.

Dates of the Institute
The 2012 Institute will take place from April 29 - May 4, 2012.


Cost of The Institute
Participants will be responsible for travel from their home of origin to and from Boston and miscellaneous expenses. Participants will also be required to pay a $925 registration fee to Boston University. Expenses associated with lodging, most meals, course material and tuition will be covered for attendees. An educational grant from the Cardinal Health Foundation supports this program.


Continuing Education Credit 

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This application-based CPE activity ACPE #204-999-12-023-L04P is cosponsored by ASHP and the Boston University School of Management. It provides 31.0 contact hours (3.1 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit.  No partial credit is allowed. Participants must submit this CE request form to earn credit for their participation. CE statements will be mailed 4-6 weeks after the activity.