PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sucher, Brandon
AU  - Nelson, Michael
AU  - Brown, Daniel
TI  - An Elective Course in Leader Development
AID  - 10.5688/ajpe7710224
DP  - 2013 Dec 16
TA  - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
PG  - 224
VI  - 77
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.ajpe.org/content/77/10/224.short
4100  - http://www.ajpe.org/content/77/10/224.full
SO  - Am J Pharm Educ2013 Dec 16; 77
AB  - Objective. To describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a leader-development elective course.Design. 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.Assessment. 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.