Ignite your Leadership Potential with Claire Tehan is available for 90 days after enrollment.

1.5 hours

This session was recorded at NHPCO’s Volunteer Leadership Virtual Conference on August 1, 2012.

Your inspiration will be ignited during this plenary session, as you are challenged and encouraged to look at your role as the leader of volunteers in a whole new light. Volunteer leaders need many of the same leadership skills that executives must demonstrate: vision, strategic planning and direction, growing the depth and breadth of programs and services, aligning services with mission and values and developing the potential of others. Do you see your role in this way? Are you at the "leadership table"? Are your volunteer program and the services volunteers provide highly visible and valued? This presentation will help you create a new vision and more central role for yourself and your volunteers; it will reframe your current experience and encourage you to capitalize on your strengths, using them to move you and your organization forward. It will challenge you to take your program to the next level, to assert the importance of the work you do and to garner recognition and support for the amazing work volunteers do under your leadership.

Learning Objectives:

In this webcast you will learn how to:

• Discuss key leadership skills needed by volunteer leaders
• Identify strategies to increase your leadership potential
• Identify new opportunities for volunteer program impact

In order to complete this online webcast and obtain CE/CME credit, the participant must view the entire course, correctly answer all case study and quiz questions and complete the evaluation.

Claire B. Tehan, MA, has been active in the leadership of the hospice movement for over 30 years and has received a number of awards in recognition of her contributions.

She was the founder and CEO of TrinityCare Hospice in Torrance, California.

As a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern California Hospice Association, she guided the merger of the Northern and Southern California Hospice Associations into one organization and then served as its President for three years. She was awarded the Pierre Salmon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Hospice Care by CSHA in 1993 and California Hospice and Palliative Care Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

She served as member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s Board of Directors for four terms, including one year as Chairperson, served as Chair of the National Council of Hospice Professionals and was awarded NHPCO’s Founders Award in 2002.

Claire is the author of numerous articles and is an accomplished speaker, presenting at state and national conferences. Claire received a MA in Health Planning from UCLA, is a Master certified coach as from the International Coaching Federation, a certified Executive Coach from the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is an adjunct coach at the Center for Creative Leadership. Claire currently serves as an Executive Leadership Consultant for NHPCO.

Claire Tehan has no financial relationships to disclose.

You will have access to this webcast for 90 days from the date of purchase.

Course Release Date: 12/1/12

Course Expiration Date: 12/1/15

Nurse:  NHPCO is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

NHPCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours. Nurses should claim only the contact hours commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Accredited status by ANCC refers only to continuing nursing education and does not imply endorsement of any commercial product discussed in conjunction with this activity.

Social Worker: NHPCO is an approved provider of continuing education contact hours by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886414158). This education activity is approved for 1.5 hours determined by the content, and social workers are awarded continuing education hours commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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