LEADS Leadership Foundations Online Program
The online LEADS Leadership Foundations program is a series of interactive, hands-on professional development sessions, focusing on building capacity in health leaders at any leadership level within an organization. The LLF program aligns the core concepts of each of the five domains in the LEADS in a Caring Environment capabilities framework with the leadership capabilities viewed through the lens of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
The program is designed to support an organization’s efforts to develop the leadership capacity necessary to create environments for belonging, achieve organizational goals and meet future challenges effectively.
Upcoming Cohorts
These public offerings will be offered multiple times a year. If you currently don’t have a CCHL login account or membership, please click “Become a member” to create a free non-member account prior to registering for this program.
2024 - Fall Cohort (FRENCH)
Dates: October 8, 15, 29, November 12, 26, December 10, 17
2025 - Winter Cohort
Dates: January 22, February 5 & 26, March 19, April 9 & 30, May 7
This online LEADS Leadership Foundations program has been designed to:
- Focus on the core concepts of each domain in the LEADS in a Caring Environment framework and provide an in-depth look at how each domain contributes to building capacity in health leaders.
- Apply the lens of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion to effective leadership behaviors.
- Support an organization’s efforts to develop leadership capacity needed to achieve organizational goals and meet future challenges effectively.
- Provide learners with practical applications of leadership knowledge and skills.
- Create experiences where new learning affects change in learners.
- Promote an environment where learners contribute meaningfully to the learning of others;
- Value learners as individuals who bring expertise and life experience to their professional development and provide a hospitable learning environment that is supportive, respectful, welcoming and inclusive.
The program runs approximately 4 months (30-35 hours) from start to finish and includes the following components:
- Learning Packets – The program is comprised of Six Learning Packets: Program Overview, Lead Self, Engage Others, Achieve Results, Develop Coalitions and Systems Transformation. Each packet includes required reading and a Primer Activity related to the relevant Domain.
- Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: Putting LEADS to Work – Second Edition
- This book is required and is the primary reading resource and textbook for the LLF program. Participants must purchase this separately in either e-file or hard copy format by visiting our CCHL Bookstore .
- 7 collaborative & live facilitated webinar sessions where participants will focus on key leanings from each of the LEADS domains.
- Access to resources and exercises to make LEADS learning come to life and foster development.
- Leadership Reflections and Action Planner Submissions, one per domain.
- Personal leadership coach feedback on each Submission.
- Access to the online LEADS Self-assessment.
- Certificate of completion indicating successful completion of the LEADS Learning component as part of this foundations program.
Completion of the full online LEADS Leadership Foundations program fulfills the LEADS Learning component of the CHE Select Program and prepares CHE Candidates to complete their LEADS in Action project. It also satisfies the LEADS Learning requirement (LEADS Learning Series) for eligibility to apply to the Certified LEADS Specialist (CLS) certification programs.
Program Fee:
$1,975.00
For more information about our Professional and Leadership Development Programs, contact our team at programs@cchl-ccls.ca