7:30am - 8:00am
Check-in, Registration, and Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 11:30am Disney's Approach to Leadership Excellence for Healthcare Professionals - Learn strategies and methods for improving team results through proven leadership philosophies that are used to exhibit the values and behaviors that generate results.
11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 4:30pm Disney's Approach to People Management for Healthcare Professionals - Discover techniques perfected by Disney in the selection, training, retention, and communications processes that help sustain a supportive and interactive culture.

Times subject to change. Mid-morning & afternoon breaks are included.


Morning Learning Objectives:

Leadership Excellence: alignment and accountability to the right thing

  • Discover how Disney leaders effectively "multiply themselves" to develop extraordinary people and deliver extraordinary results.
  • Discover a Disney coaching tool used to balance effective leadership behaviors and sustained business results.
  • Engage in an experiential activity to understand how healthcare leaders effectively share their "service" vision to align with the institution's "business" vision.
  • Hear how Disney leaders apply structure and processes to develop cultural and operational excellence.
  • Examine leadership communication principles that inform and inspire.
  • Explore methods of employee engagement that build and sustain a culture of involvement, collaboration, and cross-functional partnering.
  • Engage in a unique leadership case study that examines "Textile Services" - one of Disney's laundry processing facilities, and one of the largest commercial laundries in the world!
    • Hear how leaders built trust by focusing on their responsibility to the organization's culture, and their accountability to staff teams.
    • See how leaders increased morale, retention, and productivity by unifying leadership expectations and behaviors.
    • Explore how fully engaged employees continually develop and implement new ideas, resulting in previously unattainable levels of success.
    • Discover how ongoing commitment to an environment of inspiration and true empowerment will enable your service vision to become a reality.
  • Discuss methods for developing your leadership character and style.

Afternoon Learning Objectives:

People Management: creating a sustainable culture, internal service and motivating external distinction

  • Discover how Disney's well-designed culture enables sustained success and a powerful competitive advantage.
  • Experience the business case for creating and sustaining a culture through successful design and support "mechanisms".
  • Examine strategies that ensure employee recruitment and selection practices reflect the desired culture.
  • See how Disney's centralized employment center ("Casting") deliberately engages candidates in a designed, cultural "vetting" process:
    • Examine selection processes based on fit to "culture" first, followed by fit to "task" second
    • A multimedia presentation illustrates tools for effective "cultural on-boarding"
  • Discuss methods for successful cultural on boarding through orientation processes, on-the-job training, and the role of continual employee care and support
  • Understand the importance of accountability to specific behavioral expectations
  • Discover methods for supporting the employee experience on a daily basis:
    • Participate in an exclusive "backstage" virtual field experience to the employee support facility for the Epcot Theme Park® (supporting approximately 7,000 employees daily.)
    • Examine methods for providing communication, education and ongoing development.
    • See how a supportive work environment encourages engagement in the organization's "common purpose".
    • Discover practices used by leaders to deliver a great employee experience.
    • Discuss powerful methods for reward and recognition - i.e., the "inexhaustible fuel".