title: Developing a leadership pipeline: the Cleveland Clinic experience.
abstract: The complexity of health care requires excellent leadership to address the challenges of access, quality, and cost of care. Because competencies to lead differ from clinical or research skills, there is a compelling need to develop leaders and create a talent pipeline, perhaps especially in physician-led organizations like Cleveland Clinic. In this context, we previously reported on a cohort-based physician leadership development course called Leading in Health Care and, in the current report, detail an expanded health care leadership development programme called the Cleveland Clinic Academy (CCA). CCA consists of a broad suite of offerings, including cohort-based learning and 'a la carte' half- or full-day courses addressing specific competencies to manage and to lead. Academy attendance is optional and is available to all physicians, nurses, and administrators with the requisite experience. Course selection is guided by competency matrices which map leadership competencies to specific courses. As of December 2012, a total of 285 course sessions have been offered to 6,050 attendees with uniformly high ratings of course quality and impact. During the past 10 years, Cleveland Clinic's leadership and management curriculum has successfully created a pipeline of health care leaders to fill executive positions, search committees, board openings, and various other organizational leadership positions. Health care leadership can be taught and learned.
authors.affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Academy, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NA22, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA, hesscaryl@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Caryl A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barss
authors.forename: James K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Stoller
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