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Leadership Skills for Occupational Therapists
Develop leadership potential and skills through an OT lens. Learn leadership theories, styles, and frameworks while creating your personal vision for growth.
Develop leadership potential and skills through an OT lens. Learn leadership theories, styles, and frameworks while creating your personal vision for growth.
This comprehensive course empowers Occupational Therapists to develop their leadership capabilities through a unique OT perspective. Participants explore leadership theories, models, and frameworks while gaining insights into their personal leadership potential. The program focuses on understanding leadership fundamentals, examining different leadership styles, developing self-awareness, and applying leadership principles in OT practice. Through interactive activities, field interviews, class discussions, and peer feedback, learners create their leadership vision and understand how their OT profile connects to leadership roles. The course challenges traditional leadership views, emphasizing that everyone possesses unique leadership qualities.
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What you'll learn
Understand leadership theories and their relevance to occupational therapy practice
Analyze and identify key attributes within successful leadership examples
Evaluate various leadership models and frameworks for healthcare settings
Develop enhanced self-awareness and mindset skills for effective leadership
Create a personalized leadership vision statement for professional growth
Skills you'll gain
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Module Description
The course provides a comprehensive exploration of leadership development specifically tailored for Occupational Therapists. Through four carefully structured modules, participants gain fundamental leadership knowledge, understand various leadership manifestations, develop self-awareness through examining different leadership styles and core values, and learn practical application of leadership principles in OT practice. The curriculum integrates theoretical knowledge with practical applications through field interviews, discussions, peer feedback, and interactive activities, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of leadership in the healthcare context.
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Expert in Occupational Therapy Education and Healthcare Innovation
Andrea Duncan serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto, where she has held a core faculty position since 2001. Her diverse academic background includes a BScOT, MBA, and PhD, complemented by extensive experience in both public and private healthcare settings. As Co-Director of Education at the International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation, she oversees international clinical education while teaching program development and evaluation to MScOT students. Her research portfolio spans multiple areas including virtual reality in education, global health, community mental health service delivery, strategic business development for healthcare, and workplace wellness. Duncan has published extensively on topics ranging from substance abuse interventions to cancer survivor workplace accommodations, while championing role-emerging fieldwork opportunities for students. As Principal Consultant for Unicycle Consulting, she brings practical industry experience to her academic work, focusing on knowledge translation in role-emerging learning environments and using education as an intervention for vulnerable populations.
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