The purpose of the Health Care Agency Executive Level Leadership Training Program is to provide full service, instructor led leadership development courses to up to 10 Health Care Agency (HCA) employees per class. Course content should prepare HCA employees for progressively higher levels of leadership and management and strategic planning for a common vision and mission. The goal is to provide HCA employees the knowledge and skills to successfully lead in a government organization. It shall provide HCA employees with an understanding of how leadership roles are rapidly changing, expanding, shifting and becoming more critical in today’s work environment. Courses should create performance expectations that are clear, accountable, verifiable, and focused on the mission, the public and results. Course topics should include: identifying what makes an effective healthcare leader, incorporating a blended learning approach, based on HCA’s needs, performance management, and learn the fundamentals of healthcare leadership and how to lead a team to success using practical skills to plan, schedule, organize, and utilize resources to get results. Additionally, there should be a course on the development of an organizational mission and vision