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Title: Navigating organizational politics ethically: Principle-based leadership and followership

Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 – This webinar will be delivered in English

Presentation 2: 12:00pm-1:00pm Pacific, (3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern)

Presenter: 

Anurag Saxena is a pathologist and Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. He has extensive local and national experience in leadership, governance and management including influencing change, developing and implementing policy and strategy in many areas including accreditation, competency-based medical education, quality improvement, and social responsiveness. His current research interests and scholarly work are in the field of leadership. He has received many awards for teaching including the Master Teacher award (University of Saskatchewan) and Duncan Graham Award for outstanding contribution to medical education (The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada). With a dialectic worldview integrating philosophy with pragmatism, Anurag is committed to promoting healthy, balanced societies and personal well-being.

Overview:

Politics, along with structure, human resources and culture plays a key role in organizational life. It influences decision-making, relationships, resource allocation, and prioritization of work. Although often associated with negative connotations (but that is a limited and constrained view), it is an important variable affecting achievement of personal and organizational outcomes. Becoming comfortable with organizational politics involves an artful weaving of trust, ethics, power / influence, and mutually-valued relationships. These themes are intricately connected with each other in the complex adaptive systems of healthcare and health professions education. Leveraging real-world examples, this session will explore principles, key concepts and specific behaviors to navigate organizational politics ethically and aligned with one’s values and beliefs.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to: the participants will be able to:

  • Discern the role of formal and informal organizations for effectiveness in organizational politics.
  • Appraise the role of power /influence, trust, ethics and relationships in traversing meandering paths in organizational politics.
  • Reflect on and stretch individual foundational abilities to enhance personal leadership practice.

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  • Wednesday Oct 08 2025, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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