Welcome to the Vancouver Coastal Health leadership development page for the Medical Staff. We believe that developing strong leaders is essential for providing high-quality healthcare to our patients and communities. That's why we've created a comprehensive leadership development pathway specifically designed for medical staff. We invite you to explore our leadership development pathway for medical staff and discover how we can help you enhance your leadership skills and achieve your career goals.
The leadership pathway offers a variety of learning formats to suit your needs, including self-assessments[OK[1] , online courses, internal[OK[2] classes and external programs[OK[3] , conferences[OK[4] , self-directed learning resources , funding opportunities[OK[6] , so that you can choose the resources that best fit your schedule and goals.
Our pathway is designed to help medical professionals at all levels of their careers develop the leadership skills they need to be successful in their roles. Whether you're an aspiring leader or an experienced leader, we have a variety of courses and resources to help you enhance your leadership capabilities.
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Self-Assessment Tools
At Vancouver Coastal Health, we understand the importance of building self-awareness to improve your overall well-being. That's why we offer a variety of tools to help you on your journey towards greater self-awareness. Here are three of our top tools:
Multisource Feedback (MSF), or 360-degree employee evaluation, is a questionnaire-based assessment tool designed to strengthen medical staff understanding of, and support their success in demonstrating the necessary competencies for medical practice. It involves in-depth self-assessment and perspectives from medical colleagues and coworkers. Feedback is anonymous and confidential. Every medical staff member must complete the MSF every 6 years.
Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI), is an assessment that is recommended for anyone who is interested to build their capability in developing self-awareness. Upon completing this assessment, you will gain more clarity about you inner motives, strengths, overdone strengths portrait and conflict management approach. As you develop your self-awareness, you will better understand why you behave certain way and how you build relationships with others. Please note there are costs associated with taking this assessment, which will be recharged to your department.
Leadership Development Index (LDI), is an in-house tool designed for medical leaders in a formal leadership role to help them enhance their leadership capability through collecting anonymous feedback from the coworkers and colleagues specifically around their leadership behaviors only.
Psychologically Safe Leader, is an assessment designed for medical leaders in a formal leadership role to develop their capability around building trust when leading others. This tool has been developed by the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace to ensure medical leaders understand and know how to create an environment in a way that is psychologically safe to all medical staff members working with this leader.
Below please see the recommended approach of using the tools linked to your leadership stream and experience. In order to proceed with any of these tools, reach out to relevant points of contact, whose email addresses are available below.
All Medical Staff All medical staff | Aspiring Leader Medical Staff who are interested in taking on a leadership role | New Leader Medical Staff with <5 years of experience in a leadership role managing at least one person | Experienced Leader Medical Staff with >5 years of experience in a leadership role | Senior Leader
Medical Staff with >10 years of experience in a leadership role |
| Multisource Feedback (MSF) HERE |
| Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI) HERE
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| Leadership Development Index (LDI) HERE |
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| Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment HERE
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Internal Classes & Programs
Please have a look at the curated list of internally available learning offerings. We highly encourage you to go through this list carefully and plan your development journey ahead.
All Medical Staff All medical staff | Aspiring Leader Medical Staff who are interested in taking on a leadership role | New Leader Medical Staff with minimal experience in a leadership role leading at least one person | Experienced Leader Medical Staff with moderate experience in a leadership role | Senior Leader Medical Staff with advanced experience in a leadership role |
- Medical Staff orientation HERE
- PQI Program Level 1 HERE
- Foundations of diversity, equity and inclusion HERE
- Taking action towards anti-racism HERE
- Indigenous Cultural Safety Hummingbird Level 1 – Foundations HERE
- Exploring a respectful workplace HERE
| - PQI Program Level 2 HERE
- Understanding and disrupting bias HERE
- Importance of a Trauma Informed Lens HERE
- ICS Hummingbird Level 1 - Foundations Module 2 HERE
- Facilitating successful meeting HERE
| - Orientation for new medical leaders HERE
- UBC CPD accredited An Intro to Progressive Management HERE
- UBC CPD Accredited Mastering Difficult Conversations HERE
- PQI Program Level 3 HERE
- Unconscious Bias for hiring managers HERE
- How to be an ally HERE
- Psychological health and safety for leaders HERE
- Delegating and getting it done HERE
- Finance 101 HERE
| - Experience Linx HERE
- Influential Leadership HERE
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External Classes & Programs
Along with internal learning offerings, we prepared for you a proposed leadership pathway built on the learning interventions offered externally by well-known institutions:All Medical Staff All medical staff | Aspiring Leader Medical Staff who are interested in taking on a leadership role | New Leader Medical Staff with <5 years of experience in a leadership role managing at least one person | Experienced Leader Medical Staff with >5 years of experience in a leadership role | Senior Leader Medical Staff with >10 years of experience in a leadership role |
- Leadership begins with self-awareness (Joule) HERE
- Achieving a leadership presence (Sauder) HERE
- Introduction to healthcare leadership (IHI) HERE
- Foundations of physician wellness (Joule) HERE
- Communicating effectively (Joule) HERE
- Building self-awareness and personal mastery HERE (free)
| - LEADS Leadership Foundations - Online Program (CCHL) HERE
- Engaging others (Joule) HERE
- Strengths-based leadership HERE
- Psychological Health and Safety HERE
- RCPS SimuLEADerShip HERE (free)
- Communicating effectively HERE (free)
| - Effective Team Interaction HERE
- Dollars and sense (Joule) HERE
- Leading with emotional intelligence (Joule) HERE
- Creating workforce joy and well-being (IHI) HERE
- CMHA Psychological Health and Safety: The Essentials HERE
- Practical strategies for engaging healthcare teams HERE (free)
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion using LEADS: A Strengths-Based Approach HERE
- Strategies for Managing Unprofessional Behaviour HERE
- Co-active coaching HERE
- EQ with Institute of Health and Human Potential HERE
| - Building and leading teams (Joule) HERE
- Leading high performance culture HERE
- Leveraging social media for change (Joule) HERE
- Physician Well-Being Director Course HERE
- The Osgoode Certificate in Health Law HERE
- Canadian Patient Safety Program HERE
- Leadership Think Tanks HERE
| - International Masters for Health Leadership (McGill) HERE
- Driving Board Value in Changing Times (Sauder) HERE
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Conferences & Forums
Here is the curated
list of external and internal events/conferences for you to attend and learn
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