Webinar - DON Playbook: Leadership Lessons: Coaching, Accountability, and Building Strong Teams6/16/2026
Presented By:
- Janine Lehman, RN, RAC-CT, CLNC
Contact Person:
Proactive Medical Review and Consulting [email protected]
Course Description:
Leadership is not what you do to people, it is what you do with people. This session will focus on critical leadership lessons for how to be successful in coaching staff, holding staff accountable, and building strong teams that effectively achieve facility goals and focus on the facility mission. Strategies for effective team meetings will be discussed as well as examples of team building exercises that can be fun as well as educational.
Learning Objectives
- Become familiar with strategies for successful staff coaching and accountability.
- Identify methods for effective team meetings.
- Recognize techniques for successful team building.
Course Content
- 15 min.: Review of strategies for successful staff coaching and accountability
- 20 min.: Identify and discuss methods for effective team meetings
- 20 min.: Become familiar with techniques for successful team building
- 5 min.: Questions and answers
Target Audience: Nursing Leadership staff (DON, ADON, Unit Managers, Nursing Supervisors)
Instructional Level: Basic to Intermediate
Program Length: 1 hour
List Learning Objectives: What participants will gain from attending this session:
Content: Bullet-point list of information covered to meet learning objective:
1. Become familiar with strategies for successful staff coaching and accountability.
- Coaching role of the DON/Nurse Leader
- What staff want in a leader
- Successful staff engagement
- Providing the necessary tools to support accountability
2. Identify methods for effective team meetings.
- Essential team meetings in LTC
- Daily “stand up”/Dept. Head meeting
- Nutrition at Risk/Hydration Risk
- Falls, accidents/incidents
- Skin issues
- Others
- Key concepts for effective team meetings
- Punctuality
- Agenda
- Review of minutes and action items
- Scheduling the next meeting
3. Recognize techniques for successful team building.
- Key components of a successful team
- Promoting “buy in” of the team members
- Exercises for team building