Purpose

The NIH Senior Leadership Program provides senior NIH scientific and administrative leaders with the opportunity, working with a select group of peers and scholar-practitioners, to:

• Assess individual leadership skills and attributes with data and multiple feedback opportunities, including one-on-one sessions with executive coaches
• Design and implement a personal leadership development plan
• Enhance capacity to lead for scientific results at the NIH, including the ability to use data efficiently to drive organizational decision making
• Assess and address the organizational capacities of one's IC
• Develop a systematic approach to negotiation and cross-organizational ventures at the NIH
• Think analytically about challenges and strategies for leading organizational change at the NIH
• Enhance capacity to analyze and operate effectively in the political systems that impact the NIH

Leadership competencies addressed in the Senior Leadership Program correspond with the following SES Executive Core Qualifications:

• Leading Change
• Leading People
• Results Driven
• Building Coalitions/Communications

The program also complements the NIH Leadership and Management competency model.

Format

The NIH Senior Leadership program combines case studies, interactive discussions, experiential learning, assessment data, developmental planning and a three-day residential retreat at the Aspen Wye River Center. The program is nine days, over the course of 3 months.

Eligibility

To participate in the program, you must be nominated to participate by your Executive Officer. Nominations are team based.

Senior NIH scientific and administrative leaders, in groups of four or six including:

• Scientific Directors
• Executive Officers
• Division Directors
• Extramural Program Managers
• Senior Administrative Staff
• Executive Committee Members
• SES/SBRS Staff
• Senior Title 42 or 38 Staff
• GS 14-15 or equivalent staff

Recruitment for FY 2010 will begin in October 9, 2009.

FY 2010 Dates

Program One

• Orientation: February 1 (Building 31/6C Room 10)
• Retreat: March 22 – 24 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center, Queenstown, MD)
• Days 4/5: April 7 – 8 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 6/7: April 21 – 22 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 8/9: May 5 – 6 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
  

Program Two

• Orientation: March 29 (Natcher E1/E2)
• Retreat: May 24 – 26 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center, Queenstown, MD)
• Days 4/5: June 9 – 10 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 6/7: June 23 – 24 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 8/9: July 7 – 8 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
  

Intact Teams

• Orientation: May 10 (Natcher E1/E2)
• Retreat: June 28 – 30 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center, Queenstown, MD)
• Days 4/5: July 14 – 15 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 6/7: July 28 – 29 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 8/9: August 11 – 12 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)

Program Three

• Orientation: August 23 (Natcher E1/E2)
• Retreat: October 18 – 20 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center, Queenstown, MD)
• Days 4/5: November 3 – 4 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 6/7: November 17 – 18 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
• Days 8/9: December 7 – 8 (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD)
  

Cost

$7,009 (all-inclusive)

Contact Information

Liz Rowe
Program Manager, Leadership Development Programs
NIH Training Center

Phone: 301.496.0264
Fax: 301.480.3197
Email: rowel@mail.nih.gov

 

View the FY2010 NIH Senior Leadership Program brochure.

The NIH Senior Leadership Program was created by the NIH Office of Human Resources in partnership with the University of Maryland.

 

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