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The Center serves as the pivot for national and international training, practice and research in collaborative leadership in healthcare to improve the efficiency and efficacy of healthcare services and delivery. The Center provides education for middle and senior executive leaders groomed in the spirit of collaborative leadership based on the principles of the Teams of Leaders (ToL) concept.
The Center, through the activities of its two partners, the Central Michigan University and the University of Western Ontario, is engaged in the scientific study, implementation, and practice of collaborative leadership in both “steady state” healthcare operations, as well as healthcare activities focused on disaster preparedness, response readiness, and recovery at the local, regional, national and international/global levels.
The mission of the Center is three-fold: to explore, educate, and provide expertise on all issues related to collaborative, ToL-based leadership nationally, internationally, and globally under conditions of day-to-day routine operations, and on demand whenever and wherever services of the Center shall be required.
Teams of Leaders (ToL) is an approach for rapidly building and effectively employing cross-boundary teams that are highly competent in making and executing decisions and in learning and adapting together. The ToL approach helps the leader-teams to gain a common understanding of the situation and requirements, develop shared purpose, trust and confidence, and reach a higher level of performance faster. Cross-boundary teams today consist of leaders from different organizations brought together to leverage the expertise, experience, and resources of their entire organization.
Modern information technology such as decision support, social networking, simulation, geographic information systems, and logistical support applications play a critical role enabling leader teams to successfully work together both locally and at a distance.
CENTER ACTIVITIES – EDUCATION --> RESEARCH --> ACTION
Education of the new generation of leaders endowed with a thorough familiarity of the theory and practice of the Teams of Leaders (ToL) concept serves as a focusing element in the Center’s mission. ToL-based education/training activities focus on the senior and mid-level executive personnel of the national and international federal, state, and local governments, corporate organizations, and non-governmental entities (NGOs). As part of the mission of the Center, appropriate training programs will be incorporated into certificate, master- and doctoral-degree programs operated by both universities. The Center is also developing the means of training a large cadre of ToL coaches serving both as in-house teaching/training resource and as a service to its clients supporting their own development of intra-institutional ToL programs.
The Center investigates the significance and impact of collaborative leadership on healthcare operations, determine its utility and role as the promoter of efficiency and effectiveness, and disseminate data and results of the work conducted by the Center’s research personnel through publications, workshops, symposia, and conferences, and also through collaboration with the media and professional/trade organizations.
Finally, the mission of the Center embraces the provision of practical national, international, and global expertise and consultation to governmental, non-governmental, and corporate entities in the form of long-term collaboration addressing needs of the “real world” of a complex dynamic adaptive system such as healthcare, and by providing immediately available and deployable expertise during catastrophic crises and disasters. As a part of the latter function, the mission of the Center embraces the development and testing of collaborative preparedness measures, response readiness, and the subsequent facilitation of cooperative interactions during both early and recovery phases among all civilian and military response groups.
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