This year, NHLA content experts will be offering ongoing leadership enrichment opportunities at sessions designated as NHLA curriculum at CAHF’s summer and fall conferences and during quarterly online webinars. The NHLA icon will be next to each session that applies.

AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND

Building Better Teams: Stages of Development Webinar

For teams to be effective, the people in the team must be able to work together to contribute collectively to team outcomes…but this does not happen automatically: it develops as the team works together. This process of learning to work together effectively is known as team development. Research has shown that teams go through definitive stages during development.  While not always comfortable, each stage plays a vital part in building a high-functioning team, capable of elevated collaboration and achievement.  Through this group-to-team development process, you begin to operate as a team instead of a collection of individuals.

Objectives:

• Understanding the 5 stages of team development
• Identifying where your team is now
• Strategies leaders can use to lead a team through the 5 phases of development with success

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Leadership Lessons: One Administrator's Journey

This webinar will provide first-hand leadership experiences that span one administrator's 30-year career in long-term care. Best practices, roadblocks, and leadership development opportunities, situational responses, and preventing burnout are identified and discussed.

Objectives:

• Participants will learn 3 best practices for leaders;
• Participants will become aware of leadership development opportunities;
• Participants will identify ways to provide self-care to prevent burnout

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Promoting a Mentally Healthy Workforce webinar

According to the World Health Organization, a healthy workplace can be described as one where workers and managers actively contribute to the working environment by promoting and protecting the health, safety and well-being of all employees. The workplace can be a key location for activities designed to improve well-being among adults. Workplaces that promote mental health and support their people are more likely to reduce absenteeism, increase productivity and benefit from associated economic gains. In this one hour presentation, participants will learn to identify the risk factors that may be present in their work environment, and will learn various strategies that they can deploy to embrace and support a mentally healthy workforce.

Objectives:

• Identify risk factors for increased mental distress (chronic stress, compassion fatigue, disengagement) in the workplace
• Identify indicators (signs and symptoms) of a mentally distressed workforce
• Pinpoint strategies you can easily deploy at your organization to improve well-being and support your employees (and yourself!)

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For those interested in a more in-depth experience, the elite academy will also offer the NHLA Intensive 2021, an exclusive nine-month program for exceptional nursing home administrators and nurse leaders who are accepted into the program.

This intensive will offer concentrated learning sessions at CAHF’s three major conferences during the year.  Instruction will include a focus on customer and staff engagement, leadership principles, steps for QASP success and quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI). Other offerings will cover staff stability, business development, and community and disaster leadership. Each graduate will strengthen their skills as they work to complete a quality improvement project.

The program is open to administrators and Directors of Nursing or nurse leaders who are graduates of the QCHF Director of Nursing Leadership training.

Download the application here.