Emerging Leader Program: Focusing on the Customer - February 2025
Does every role have a “customer”? Identify your “customer” and develop proactive ways to ensure you meet customer needs.
As leaders, it’s important to recognize the impact you make both with your team and the “customers” you serve. In this Emerging Leader Program course, participants will learn how to tap into their emotional intelligence and utilize active listening skills to enhance their communication and develop a proactive approach to service.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify our “customers” in order to better understand how to reach success in our role
- Understand how tapping into our Emotional Intelligence helps us anticipate the needs of others
- Explore tools to increase active listening skills to support empathetic communication
Target Audience
Registered Nurses
Learning Objectives
Nursing Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this activity, registered nurses will report through the post-activity survey enhanced knowledge of how to utilize emotional intelligence and active listening skills to identify the customer’s needs and promote empathetic communication.
Amy Shanks, BA, MA
Brittany Bonds, BA
Haylee Lopez, BA, MS
Timothy Sandles, PH.D.
Candace Nunez, BS
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
To be awarded 1.83 continuing professional development hours, the participant must attend the program in its entirety and complete the evaluation tool
Available Credit
- 1.75 Attendance
- 1.75 Nursing Contact Hours
Houston Methodist is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Houston Methodist will award up to 1.75 nursing professional development contact hours for this activity.
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