NIH Senior Leadership Program
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 2009 will begin in October, 2008.
FY 2009 Dates
Program One
| Orientation: | | February 2 (NIH) |
Retreat: | | March 30-April 1 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center,
Queenstown, MD) |
April 21-22 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
May 19-20 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
May 27-28 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
Program Two
| Orientation: | | May 11 (NIH) |
Retreat: | | June 22-24 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center) |
July 14-15 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
July 28-29 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
August 18-19 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
*New for FY 2009: The NIH Training Center is pleased to announce a pilot of a special session designed exclusively for intact, functioning teams that work closely together on a regular basis within an IC. Special emphasis will be placed on achieving optimal team performance. The format will include the hands-on application of leadership principles to real-time challenges in the workplace and features strategies that will enhance team performance on an ongoing basis beyond the end of the program.
Intact Teams
| Orientation: | | March 2 (NIH) |
| Retreat: | | April 27-29 (Aspen Wye River Conference Center,
Queenstown, MD) |
| May 13-14 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
| June 3-4 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
| June 17-18 | | (University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center,
College Park, MD) |
Cost
$6,420 (all-inclusive)
Contact Information
| Liz Rowe |
| Program Manager, Leadership Development Programs |
| NIH Training Center |
To access the FY09 NIH Senior Leadership Program brochure, click here.
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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