NEW AND EVOLVING ACADEMIC LEADERS (NEAL) PROGRAM

You are your leadership instrument! In the NEAL program, participants develop the mindsets and capabilities to successfully lead their division, program, research, education or other academic unit and help enable the success of their academic teams. Specifically, they become competent in the four practices of academic leadership: intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational and system.

If the academic part of your job entails engaging people to develop or advance an educational, research or innovation agenda in health care, then NEAL is for you.

We invite applications from both formal and informal leaders, nationally and internationally, with faculty appointments in Faculties of Medicine or Health Sciences. Applicants must have been in a faculty position for at least 3 years and have academic leadership roles and/or responsibilities. Such leaders, (with or without formal institutional roles), are engaged in the academic mission of research, education or program development.

Their roles or responsibilities can be formal or informal and could include, but are not restricted to: vice-deans, chairs, vice-chairs, and chiefs of academic departments or units; Directors or leads of research programs or institutes; or Education leaders such as: clerkship, residency, graduate program, clinical education, work placement, curriculum or centre leaders or any leadership role that pursues an academic agenda such as research, education or program development.

Past participant roles have included: Department Chairs or Vice-Chairs, Associate or Vice-Deans, Program Directors, Division Heads, Academy Directors, Site Chiefs / Coordinators, Heads or leads of Research Programs or Institutes.

Enacting leadership is essential to the program as there is a leadership project requirement that participants will need to fulfill.

Three 4-day modules over the course of one year with coaching and web-based distance learning in between. Each day is 8-9 hours long including breakfast, lunch and breaks.

Unique aspects of the program include:

• Our faculty are award winning experts in their fields from business, health management, health sciences and the private sector
• Engagement with colleagues from a diversity of academic contexts beyond your own
• You will identify your strengths and blind-spots and develop your own authentic leadership style
• The program has been designed to ensure workplace based learning and application
• You will work on context relevant stretch goals and shared issues
• You will receive individual coaching
• You will have an opportunity to shadow an admired leader
• Completion of the program will result in a University of Toronto certificate of added qualification

Participants will learn to:

Module 1 - Getting Started

1. Reflect on their strengths and gaps in academic leadership to set development goals
2. Apply current frameworks for 21^st century leadership to their work
3. Describe how to utilize their style and communication to enable engagement
4. Discuss the design and maintenance of high performing academic groups
5. Explain the relevance of complexity for understanding leadership in academic health science/care settings
6. Practice compelling communication techniques to move concepts and ideas forward
7. Develop their initial strategy for enabling academic change and innovation
8. Describe how to design effective decision-making processes
9. Apply complexity informed strategies to enabling change and innovation

Module 2 - Building Capacity and Momentum

1. Examine diverse individual approaches to effective academic leadership
2. Practice negotiation techniques to address academic health science system issues
3. Develop strategies to navigate challenging conversations
4. Describe approaches to promoting high performance and mediating conflict
5. Apply a variety of reflective and Integrative Thinking™ strategies to resolve academic issues
6. Recognize the power of diverse perspectives for solving organizational dilemmas
7. Explore how foresight can help academic leaders prepare and pivot for opportunities and uncertainties
8. Apply a strengths based and resilient approach to their leadership and ongoing development
9. Describe principles to engage others to create momentum towards desired results

Module 3 - Creating Resilience and Adaptability

1. Identify ways to design your academic unit to support your strategy Develop vision and strategy skills for their academic unit
2. Apply economic principles to academic resource management
3. Design for an adaptable and resilient academic unit
4. Discuss approaches to managing and supporting faculty and academic unit success
5. Describe the leader’s role in facilitating the transitions that accompany academic innovation and change
6. Discuss how to lead across differences
7. Map the academic health care environment
8. Identify strategies for leading across academic health system boundaries
9. Reflect on the evolution of your own leadership to plan for continued growth and sustainability

• Nouman Ashraf, PhD, Director, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
• Ahmed Bayoumi Scientist, Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Fondation Baxter & Alma Ricard Chair in Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto; Professor, Dept of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
• Adalsteinn Brown, AB (Harvard), DPhil (Oxford), Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
• Cate Creede, PhD, Consultant, The Potential Group; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Michael Gardam, MSc MD, CM, FRCPC, Chief of Staff, Humber River Hospital, Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Faculy of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Delaine Hampton, PhD, Adjunct Professor and Executive in Residence, Rotman School of Management
• Jerry Koh Director of Systems Innovation and MaRS Solutions Lab, MaRS Discovery District.
• Geoff Leonardelli, PhD, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Rotman School of Management and Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
• Karen Leslie, MD, MEd, Director, Centre for Faculty Development, Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Susan Lieff, MD, Med, MMan, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Director, Academic Leadership Development, Centre for Faculty Development
• BA Millar, MBChB, Associate Director, Education Scholars Program, Centre for Faculty Development; Assistant Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Danny Nashman, MBA, Consultant, The Potential Group
• Carol Rolheiser, PhD, Director, Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation and Professor, Dept. of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
• Mary Yates, BA (Hons), MEd, Faculty Member, Physician Manager Institute, Canadian Medical Association; Principal, Align Associates

Participants must be able to commit to attend all three modules listed below.

Dates for our 8th class for the 2020-2021 year are:

• October 5-8, 2020
• January 18-21, 2021
• May 3-6, 2021

Each module consists of 8-9 hour days which include breakfast, lunch and breaks. There is approximately 10 hours of pre-work assigned prior to each module which includes preparation of mandatory assignments.

Module 1: Pantages Hotel, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Module 2 and 3: Li Ka Shing International Healthcare Education Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This document lists a number of hotels in close proximity to the venue. Please note that there are many more hotels in downtown Toronto which you may choose to book with and that this list is only a selection.

Basic Sciences Tuition Rate: for those with a PhD in the following departments: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Immunology, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Medical Biophysics, Molecular Genetics, Nutritional Sciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology.

• Early Bird Application Rate - $10,000
• Full Application rate - $10,500

Standard Rate: for MD's and Other Faculty Members

• Early bird application rate - $11,500
• Full application rate - $12,000

Those who submit their application package by the early bird deadline will be guaranteed the early bird tuition rate should their application be successful. All successful applicants whose packages are received after the early bird deadline will be subject to the full tuition rate.

To be considered for our 2020-2021 class, please submit your application package by May 1^st, 2020 to be eligible for the Early Bird tuition rate or by our final deadline of June 19^th, 2020.

Online Applications for NEAL 2020-2021 are now open. Should you wish to begin preparing your application in advance of the portal opening, please see the information below which includes the Application Package Requirements. You may also download a PDF copy of these instructions, with worksheets to begin preparing your application.
Download Application Instructions

1. Application Form (to be completed online through a web-form in the NEAL Application Portal)
2. Updated CV (upload a PDF to the NEAL Application Portal)
3. 2 letters of reference** from your sponsors, one of which must come from a formal leader in your context who you report to or are accountable to such as: a chair, program director, chief, vice-dean, dean or other. A sponsor should be someone from your own network who is key to your ongoing development of, and dialogue about academic leadership. The letters of reference should be uploaded to the NEAL Application Portal as a PDF.
4. Signed Learner Contract

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