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VIRTUAL CONFERENCE AVAILABLE FOR SHSMD24The most timely health care strategy and market development programming happens at SHSMD's Connections Conference. We are the nation's leading event for health care marcom and strategy. The field comes together to share their findings, challenges and best practices with the shared goal of advancing health care. Strategists from every stage of their careers can benefit from sessions and networking at the SHSMD Connections 2024!

The Early Careerist and Young Professional’s GuideAs an early careerist or young professional in health care strategy, the Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development (SHSMD) recognizes that you may have unique questions and needs compared to seasoned professionals.

 New member? Seasoned pro? This webinar is your key to unlocking the full potential of your SHSMD experience!Webinar Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | 12-1 p.m. CTJoin us for an information-packed session that will show you exactly how to leverage all the resources at your disposal.We'll dive deep into the SHSMD toolbox, including:

    Check out this Power Point presentation from SHSMD Connections 2022 Conference featuring SHSMD Board Members discussing professional growth and advancement.  Topics Discussed:

    Check out this Power Point presentation from SHSMD Connections 2022 Conference about improving working conditions to attract and retain good talent.. 

  This SHSMD Connections 2022 session will help you understand how to listen and communicate more assertively to better navigate tough conversations. Learning objectives:

 

SHSMD is pleased to offer its members free access to continuing education opportunities through these recorded sessions. Included below are presentation materials and recordings/video.

An interactive “fishbowl” discussion between 4 panelists and rotating members of the audience about how to design a Health System Fellowship that implements SHSMD Bridging Worlds as an internal Engine of Innovation.

This session will help you learn to free up your brain and do your job better.

Hear how leaders in the health care strategy have leveraged critical skills to advance their careers. Learn important considerations for pursuing an advanced degree in health care management, and the essential groundwork for competency-driven advancement. Understand several relevant competency models, those that focus on strategists' skills, those that are critical to exceptional innovative leadership.

Strategy professionals by definition are forward-thinking and

General Colin Powell once said, "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." It's no secret that effective leaders are often good communicators—able to motivate, encourage, and inspire others. But that's not all. Great leaders are also adept at listening, learning, analyzing, adapting, pivoting, problem-solving, teaching, and training.

With this shift to a digital marketing mindset comes a change in the skills and resources that compose a highly-functioning marketing team. This team is built on the “think, feel, do” principle – stacked with data analysts, demand generators, and strategic content creators. How do you acquire the skills needed to excel in this new marketing department?

We are in a renaissance. The rate of change in the healthcare marketplace is moving at an accelerated pace. There are more opportunities than ever before for healthcare strategists, but there are greater challenges to refine and build upon their skillsets in preparation for an unknown future. Read about the skills and attributes necessary to succeed in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment.

How can the attributes and skills highlighted in Bridging Worlds be applied to take your team to the next level? This session will allow participants to explore these concepts through real-world case studies, gaining practical knowledge to apply within their own organizations.

From concept to completed submission, this session will walk you through all of the major components of writing an effective business plan. We will also provide tools and templates to guide you and help you focus on the important elements of business planning.

Applicable to all levels of personnel, this competency model can be used not only to guide development conversations, but also to put an accountable structure and focus around your development plans.

This presentation will provide an overview of the challenges the current healthcare environment places on traditional planning processes, the imperative for change, a new approach to planning based on best practices from across the country, and a guide to applying this new approach to planning in your organization.