title: An elective course in leader development.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a leader-development elective course.
  
  
  METHODS
  Students discovered, reflected on, and enhanced their leadership skills by participating in leadership quality presentations, selecting and facilitating team-building activities for pharmacy-based scenarios, creating a personal mission statement, maintaining a journal, creating pharmacy performance matrices, facilitating leadership discussions and activities, and completing a variety of leader-development inventories to identify their strengths and opportunities for growth.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students successfully completed 98% of the assignments. The most valued topics and assignments involved validated instruments, which promoted self-discovery and development. End-of-course survey results revealed all students agreed the course achieved all learning outcomes except preventing conflict from escalating (9% disagreed) and applying knowledge of core values to achieve greater effectiveness in interpersonal communication (4% disagreed).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Students perceived this leader-development elective course was effective in achieving learning outcomes. Assignments guided the creation of personalized leader-development tracks, ultimately promoting lifelong learning.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Regis University, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: Brandon
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sucher
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Regis University, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.affiliation: Gregory School of Pharmacy, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000639:trends*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D013339:Students, Pharmacy
keywords: curriculum; elective course; leadership