2016-17 Women’s Leadership Program


Resources

2016-2017 Women’s Leadership Program Curriculum Overview

2016-17 WLP Dates and Locations

2016-17 WLP Photo Roster

2016-17 WLP Book Reports Information

2016-17 WLP Book and Date Assignments

 

Summer Preparatory Assignments:

  • Complete leadership goal framework for accomplishing personal leadership goal identified in application
  • Complete self-evaluation tool
  • Meet with Emelia Benjamin or Francine Montemurro for career coaching session
  • Select a leadership book to read and present on during the program
  • Write and practice your elevator pitch (30 – 45 seconds) to be presented during session 1 as your introduction to your program colleagues
  • Complete pre –program survey: Knowledge, Skills & Attitudes, Sense of Community, and Resilience Scale


Sessions

Session 1: Introduction

Preparatory Work:

  1. Active Listening Handout
  2. Description of Roles for Peer Mentoring Practice in Triads
  3. Developing and Delivering Your Elevator Pitch V3
  4. Elicitive Inquiry Framework
  5. Peer Coaching Overview
Presentation:

  1.  Session 1 Introduction

 

 

Session 2: Self-Reflection, Awareness, and Assessment

Preparatory Work:

  1. Guide to find a mentor
  2. Kram & Higgins – Developmental Network Assessment
  3. Kram & Higgins – A New Mindset on Mentoring
Presentation:

  1. Session 2 Developmental Networks

 

Session 3: Understanding Your Personality and Leadership Style

Preparatory Work:

  1. Complete MBTI Personality Test by 10/17 (See Robina’s email for instructions)
  2. Schedule one-on-one meeting with Diane Loud to discuss results.
Presentation:

  1. Session 3 Understanding Your Personality and Leadership Style
  2. Session 3 MBTI and Communication

Session 4: Conversation Café

Preparatory Work:

  1. Read Thea James’s bio and come up with questions you’d like to ask her
Presentation: N/A

 

Session 5: Time Management: Strategically saying yes and no to achieve your career goals

Preparatory Work:

  1. Complete time tracker for 3-7 days (NOTE: you need to do this for 3-7 work days prior to 11/30)
  2. Read 7 Questions to Ask Yourself When Approached With a Project
  3. Read at least 2 of the following articles:
    • Clark, D. How to Say No to Things You Want to Do Harvard Business Review, January 2016.
    • Friedman, R. 9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity. Harvard Business Review, Dec 2015.
    • Lowenstein, SR. Tuesdays to Write… A Guide to Time Management. Academic Emergency Medicine, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2008.
    • Giang, V. These Are the Long-Term Effects of Multitasking. Fast Company, March 1, 2016.
    • Webb, C. How to Beat Procrastination. Harvard Business Review, July 29, 2016.
Presentation:

  1. Time Management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 6: Giving and Receiving Feedback that Results in Behavior Change

Preparatory Work:

  1. Read the following: Mohr T. Learning to love criticism. NY Times, Sept 27, 2014.
    Snyder K. The abrasiveness trap. Fortune, August 26, 2014. Center for Creative Leadership. 10 Common Mistakes in Giving Feedback.
Presentation:

  1. Forthcoming

 

 

Session 7: Leading High Performance Teams

Preparatory Work:

  1. Assignment due on Dec. 21: Identify a current challenge you have in leading a team and send it to Robina by December 21, 2016. Responses will be kept anonymous.
  2. To be completed before Jan. 4 session:
    • Haas M and Mortensen M. The Secrets of Great Teamwork. Harv Bus Rev. 2016; 94:70-6, 117. PMID: 27491197.
    • Duhigg, C. What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. NY Times, Feb 25, 2016.
    • Edmonson, A. Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace. TED Talk, May 2014.
    • Review Five Determinants of Effective Leadership
Presentation:

  1. Leading High Performing Teams

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 8: Art & Style of Interpersonal Communication as a Woman Leader

Preparatory Work:

  1. Complete communication style assessment
  2. Read the following:

• Pigeon Y, Khan O. Tools for Effective Team Meetings – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Team. AAMC Leadership Lesson.

• Cuddy, A. I Don’t Deserve to be Here: Presence and the Impostor Syndrome. LeanIn.org, March 3, 2016.
• http://www.peggyklaus.com/books/brag-quiz/

Presentation:

  1. Using Your Communication Style Effectively

 

 

 

 

Session 9: Conflict Management and Negotiation

Preparatory Work

1. Active Listening (three short articles and one handout)

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/activel.htm

http://www.crinfo.org/coreknowledge/active-listening

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/writingcentre/learning_guides/learningGuide_activeListening.pdf

Active Listening handout

2. Understanding Positions and Interests (two short articles and one handout)

http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/interests

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/problem/intpos-p.htm

Translating Positions into Interests (understanding what’s really at stake)

3. Open-ended Questions (handout)

4. I-Messages (two short articles and handout)

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/commskil.htm

http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/I-messages

I Messages hand out (Boston University Office of the Ombuds)

5. Think of a difficult conversation you need to have or have had recently, and email a brief description to Robina

Presentation:

Managing Difficult Conversations

Session 10: Conversation Café

Preparatory Work:

Read Monica Bharel’s bio and come up with questions you’d like to ask her

Presentation: N/A

 

Session 11: Unconscious Bias

Preparatory Work:

Complete at least 2 Implicit Association Tests
Burrell, L. We Just Can’t Handle Diversity. Harvard Business Review, July-August 2016.

Presentation:

Unconscious Bias: Identifying strategies to recognize and mitigate our biases

Session 12: Resiliency in Academic Medicine

Preparatory Work:

Complete Maslach’s Burnout Scale

Watch Brene Brown’s TED Talk

Read at least one of the following 3 articles
1. Researchers. Decastro R, Sambuco D, Ubel PA, Stewart A and Jagsi R. Batting 300 Is Good: Perspectives of Faculty Researchers and Their Mentors on Rejection, Resilience, and Persistence in Academic Medical Careers. Acad Med. 2013. PMID: 23425991.
2. Minority Faculty. Cora-Bramble D, Zhang K, Castillo-Page L. Minority faculty members’ resilience and academic productivity: are they related? Acad Med. 2010;85:1492-8. PMID: 20453809.
3. Physicians. Zwack J, Schweitzer J. If every fifth physician is affected by burnout, what about the other four? Resilience strategies of experienced physicians. Acad Med. 2013;88:382-9. PMID: 23348093.

Presentation:

Burnout, Shame, Vulnerability & Resilience:Practicing Primordial Prevention

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 13: Conversation Café

Preparatory Work:

Read Kate Walsh’s bio and come up with questions you’d like to ask her

Presentation: N/A

 

Session 14: Navigating Organizational Politics and Change

Preparatory Work: Presentation:

Navigating Organizational Politics and Change

Session 15: Envisioning the Future and Getting to it

Preparatory Work: Reflect on this past year and journal about areas of strength you personally have grown this year, and opportunities for future growth. Presentation: N/A