Great Opportunity for Mid Career Faculty - - -
SAEM Leadership Academy
May 13, 2009 as preconference to SAEM Annual Meeting
0800- 1700 with networking reception to immediately follow
How do we make our working lives easier, more productive and ensure our careers are headed in the right direction? We are challenged in this rapidly changing environment to work towards transformational change and prepare ourselves for a different constantly evolving work environment.
Effective leadership begins with an innate ability and talent but it must also be cultivated. Academic Emergency Medicine has many excellent leaders who developed their leadership traits and managerial skills through a combination of on-the-job training, self-initiated mentorship relationships, self-education through reading and conference attendance and, occasionally, graduate level course work. This inaugural session of the Leadership Academy focuses on two key entities: career choices/advancement, and managing people.
This workshop will equip you to engage others, adapt to changing situations, recognize the value of others and lead from an unfamiliar and uncomfortable place. We must recognize and develop the untapped potential in our organizations and ourselves. Bill Adams of Maxcomm Inc. challenges with this statement “Doing something differently is a natural response to the changing world around us. Becoming something different changes the world by transforming that which is within us.” This conference is a step in that direction.
Audience:
Open to all, Focus: Mid to senior career EP's preparing for the next step in their career
Date: May 13, 2009 Pre conference to New Orleans Annual SAEM meeting
Format: One day of lectures, small group discussion/role playing, panel discussion
Cost: $ 150 includes lunch Limited to 80 participants
Topics and speakers:
Leadership: What is it? Why do we need it? by Glenn Hamilton
Key Note Address: Applying the Principles of Leadership ... Getting Traction ... Getting Action by David J. Bachrach
Career Paths for the Mid-Career Emergency Physician - What are the Possibilities? Gloria Kuhn (Vice Chair Academic Affairs), Kate Heilpern (Chair), Bernie Lopez (Dean's office), Brian O'Neil (Vice Chair of Research)
Sustaining a Vision Through Good Times and Bad: How to Make Yours Weatherproof Marc Borenstein
Developing and Managing the Workforce of the Future, Bill Barsan, Tracy Sanson
Conflict Resolution Alan Forstater, Rob Strauss,
Lessons Identified through trial and error: Panel Discussion Question & Answer Bill Barsan, Kate Heilpern, Bob Hockberger, Brent King, Marcus Martin
Tracy Sanson (Moderator)
Networking Reception
Descriptions
Career Paths for the Mid-Career Emergency Physician - What are the Possibilities?
The early path for the academic emergency physician typically involves the development of clinical expertise along with the pursuit of an academic niche. By mid-career, the academic EP has hopefully attained success in both areas. Academically, they may have taken on a leadership role in one area (residency program director, medical student director, research). What are the career paths that can next be followed?
This session will present a variety of career paths available to the academic emergency physician. A panel of emergency physicians who have pursued careers in areas such as the dean's office, ED administration, and medical education will present their careers and discuss issues related to their chosen area.
o Gain an exposure to potential career paths
o Understand the effects of a specific career choice on one's personal and professional life
o Understand some of the requirements for these positions as well as the necessary steps in pursuing these choices
o List some of the paths taken by emergency physicians
o Identify the effects of a particular choice on one's academic advancement
o Discuss methods to explore career choice
Format: Panel discussion with audience participation
Sustaining a Vision Through Good Times and Bad: How to Make Yours Weatherproof
This general introductory presentation followed by a small group session will give participants hands-on work and coaching in creating and articulating a vision. At the end of this session the participant will be able to
o Distinguish leadership from management and understand the value of both
o Identify the components of an effective vision
o Understand how to use changing circumstances to forward vision
o Appreciate what is required to sustain an effective vision over time independent from circumstances
Format: Lecture and small group discussion
Developing and Managing the Workforce of the Future
Today's leaders are tasked to motivate, develop, acknowledge and reward, but how do we best accomplish this with our varied workforce? How do we recruit, develop, and retain the best? We must acknowledge that each faculty member brings special talents and needs.
This panel will:
o Discuss the changing demographics of emergency physicians
o Discuss generalizations about leading, coaching, and motivating the various generations in our departments
o Discuss family obligations: elder care, pregnancy, and child rearing and their impact on the workplace, workforce, and career advancement
o Review options for career and personal life balance enhancing EP wellness and career advancement/longevity
Format: Panel presentation
Conflict Resolution:
The issue of conflict resolution is central to developing effective interpersonal and communication skills. It is a common and regular part of our professional and personal lives. This interactive workshop will illustrate and teach effective conflict management skills techniques. Participants will complete a self-assessment tool to detail their usual response to conflict. Participants will become more aware of their own communication style and various approaches of responding to conflict. Cases will be presented and workshop participants will take turns role-playing the scenarios, observing and critiquing each other Discussions will be directed towards teaching effective conflict management through demonstration and actual experience
Goals:
o Understand the principles of conflict
o Understand methods of conflict management
o Develop a basic background on the topic and stimulate further interest in the topic
o List the various approaches to dealing with conflict and their outcomes
o List effective conflict management techniques
o Discuss disruptive behaviors, fact-finding, confrontation, rehabilitation, reentry, and resolution
Format: Lecture, small group discussions, role-playing
Lessons Identified through trial and error: Panel Discussion, Question & Answer
Discussions with those who have made the career advancement move, their thoughts on sentinel events and lessons identified along the way.
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