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The overall objective of this course is to provide you with the conceptual tools and the practical skills to enable you to reflect, self-assess, and critically evaluate your continuous development as a healthcare leader. Learning Portfolios (LPs) are used in a variety of professional education programs as a mechanism for demonstrating growth and mastery across a representative breadth of competencies for professional success. The process involves reflection on personal progress towards attaining competency mastery; feedback to stimulate a diversity of ideas and perspectives on current and future learning goals; and self-assessment of strengths and gaps in leadership development. Leadership competency portfolios are an assessment tool that go beyond the graded assignments that have accompanied your competency development to date. Designed as a capstone project, the development of a Best Work Leadership Competency Portfolio will provide insights into how you learn, and how your accomplishments fit into a framework of continuous leadership development, so that completion of the program is seen as the beginning or waypoint on your leadership development journey not the end. Finally, a portfolio will provide you with tangible evidence of the attainment of the 26 NCHL Leadership competencies that can be shared with both current and future employers.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Reflect on your leadership development across the program and have confidence in your ability to make sense of the experience as a coherent unified process. (A5 – Characterization by Value)
• Identify and describe artifacts that demonstrate mastery of the 26 NCHL leadership competency levels at the targeted program levels in a Best Work Leadership Portfolio. (C6 – Evaluate)
• Connect the depth, breadth and growth of your learning throughout the program to your future leadership development as you describe what, why and how you learn and the impact of that learning on your continuous leadership development. (C6 – Evaluate)
• Assess current leadership competency strengths and gaps, identify future learning goals and methods to achieve them through the development of a Personal Learning Action Plan (C6- Evaluate)
• Support colleagues in the development of their Best Work Portfolio and Learning Action Plans and generate diverse thinking through peer coaching, advising and feedback. (C5- Synthesis)