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Central Michigan
University and Western University
Joint Center for Collaborative Command and Leadership
Central Michigan University
(CMU) through its Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health
Professions provides the academic foundation of the Center for
Collaborative Command and Leadership (CCCL) and its operations focused
on implementation of the concept of Teams of Leaders (ToL) in a wide
range of activities ranging from health care to corporate business. It
is also a particularly suitable crucible for the development of the new
generation of executives well versed in ToL, its applications, and in
operations based on the ToL concept. CMU has nationally and
internationally recognized faculty specializing in:
- business analytics and
modeling
- healthcare administration
- international operations
- healthcare and national
security affairs
- simulation-based training.
In addition, CMU is currently
the only academic organization nationwide offering a doctoral degree in
healthcare administration based on distributed education/training
methodology.
Founded in 1878, Western
University (formerly known as the University of Western Ontario) is
home to approximately 3,800 full-time faculty and staff members, and
approximately 34,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students.
Through its 12 Faculties, and three affiliated Colleges, the University
offers more than 400 different majors, minors and specializations.
Research is an integral part of the University's mission and external
support for research projects currently exceeds $225 million per year.
Premiere among its faculties and schools are the Schulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry and the Ivey School of Business and affiliated
education and research centers. An emphasis in both these faculties is
in leadership and in producing the next generation of leaders in health
care, business, industry and government.
Collaboration of CMU, Western
University and the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation
provides an unprecedented integration of ToL with an international
approach to the wide range of issues related to business operations,
national and international health services and healthcare
administration, and all associated aspects of national security, law,
etc. Importantly, the combined expertise covers activities conducted
under both normal and crisis situations.
In addition to being able to
provide general ToL training to its own masters and doctoral students
and external agencies and programs, CMU and Western can provide similar
training focused on:
- senior (executive) personnel
of individual agencies
- development of collaborative
high performing executive command leader teams
- integration into
“transboundary high performing leader teams”
- organization/agency focused
pilot implementation of ToL
- efficacy studies of
performance in ToL-centered operations
- continuous refresher ToL
training
- large scale, preparation
development focused on ToL-based leadership.
These activities are further
supported by:
- seminars, workshops, and
symposia devoted to ToL activities
- agency/private
sector–focused executive workshops and pilot implementation programs
- establishment of
transboundary training links to NGOs (e.g., Red Cross)
- scientific analyses of
organizational performance efficacy and operational utility (“ground
effect”) in ToL-based environments
- evaluation of data and
building knowledge databases
- multidisciplinary research
resulting in publications facilitating enculturation of ToL within the
government, corporate, and volunteer sectors both at both national and
international levels.
The complex, current setting of
national and international business, health care, education, science,
and civil society furnishes adequate impetus for both the recognition
of and need for the implementation of ToL in coordination and response
to a wide range of increasingly more frequent emergencies. However, ToL
also offers an approach that is essential under normal, steady state
conditions to address continuously intractable issues with a need for
significantly greater collaboration across boundaries of professions,
organizations, bureaucracies, and cultures, or implementation of
regional and pan-national initiatives (e.g., electronic health records;
immigration, affordable housing, etc.).
Initially, the activities of
the joint US-Canadian ToL Operations Center has focused on health care
and health research. Currently, the Center has established
collaborative links with other academic and corporate organizations and
its initiatives encompass a wide range of issues in which broad-based
collaboration among participants is the essential ingredient of
success. The ultimate goal of CCCL is the establishment of a
trans-disciplinary ToL network capable of addressing the entire
spectrum of national and international issues affecting the
increasingly complex, transboundary world of human activities.
OUR PROJECTS - OUR
PARTNERS
Together We
Can and the Center for Collaborative Command and Leadership
The Center is working with
the Together We Can initiative of the Central
Michigan District Health Department to provide guidance in planning and
setting priorities to improve the health of six central Michigan
communities and to build the information management and technology
platform to enable effective collaboration and information exchange
across all participants and counties.
Saginaw County
Community Mental Health Authority and the Center for Collaborative
Command and Leadership
The Center is working with
Central Michigan University and the Saginaw County Community Mental
Health Authority to provide a framework for cross-agency
collaboration through the Teams of Leaders approach in the planning for
a Home Visiting Hub.
The Michigan Health
Information Alliance (MiHIA) (http://www.mihia.org) is a
formal, multi-stakeholder, community collaboration working to achieve a
community of health excellence for the 14-county region it serves. This
initiative is based on a core belief that solutions to health and
health care problems can be found and designed at a regional level,
accelerating regional competitive advantage and sustainability. MiHIA's
Mission is "to improve the health of people within our region through
effective use of information and collaboration to establish our region
as a community of health excellence through a comprehensive focus on
population health, patient experience and cost of care.
Dr. Candace Gibson, Director
of the Center for Collaborative Command and Leadership, served as the
Lead of the MiHIA Dashboard Team. She and her team developed a
regional health dashboard to provide essential health data for tracking
and assessing community needs and evaluating progress of regional
health projects.
Center for Collaborative
Command and Leadership partnered with Emerging
Leaders Initiative, London, Ontario to offer Leadership London 2014
- a one year leadership development program that focused on team
building and community leadership.
Participants were introduced
to different sectors in London through themed monthly workshops.
The goal of the program is to develop a network of high potential
professional business leaders and community innovators and provide them
the opportunity to have an impact on London’s future. The program
provides participants the opportunity to diversify their understanding
of the London community, while at the same time learning world class
leadership and team building techniques.
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