Leadership Lessons Learned

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Session Summary

All pharmacy practitioners are leaders in that we are all change agents and influencers of the thinking of our patients, students, and colleagues.  Dr. Wells’ presentation is designed to help you select strategies to maximize your ability to bring about change in your professional setting and realize your potential to build programs, improve the care of patients, and increase your personal effectiveness.

Dr. Wells will not provide an overview of the fundamentals of leadership, but instead offer some leadership lessons learned over the course of her career as a psychiatric pharmacist, pharmacy educator, clinical scientist, department chair, and dean.  She will discuss the importance of leadership communications, communicating “upward,” mentoring, and providing inspiration.  She will talk about listening, being consistent, and persevering.   Additionally, she will address building relationships and the role of trust and credibility. She will talk about why leaders must always take the high road and the necessity of finding meaning in one’s work in order to sustain the leadership effort.

Faculty Information

Barbara Wells, PharmD, FCCP, BCPP

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Learning Objectives

  1. Identify leadership strategies to enhance goal accomplishment and personal effectiveness.
  2. Identify leadership behaviors that help others reach their full potential.
  3. Discuss the importance of leadership communication.
  4. Identify leadership strategies to effect change and build programs.

Continuing Education Credit

Activity Date: 04/30/2012
ACPE Contact Hours: 1.0
ACPE Number: 0284-9999-12-005-L04-P (Knowledge)
ACCME: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE and ACCME credit is accepted for certification renewal.

Course Requirements

This session is presented live at the 2012 CPNP Annual Meeting. A PDF file of the slides is provided online. Access to the online PDF content is available to participants indefinitely although ACPE credit is available only through the Annual Meeting. To obtain continuing education credit, attendees of this session must confirm their attendance by completing a session evaluation within two weeks after the session. ACPE transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at cpnp.org and the credit will be automatically submitted to your account at CPE Monitor shortly after the evaluation is completed. CME statements will be issued by the end of June 2012 by the University of Arizona.