The Mid-Career Leadership Program (MCLP) is a year-long curriculum designed to engage primarily Associate level faculty in learning core competencies necessary for effective department and/or section/division leadership. The didactic and colloquial sessions will provide practical examples and applications of the core competencies necessary to lead departments, divisions, centers and other combined clinical and academic enterprises at UC Davis Health System. The MCLP curriculum includes four focused workshops that offer participants the opportunity to reflect upon their current leadership style, develop new leadership skills, and practice different leadership approaches. The program also includes an in depth 360 leadership assessments that provides participants a unique insight into their current leadership competencies and self-limiting reactive tendencies. The juxtaposition of creative competencies and reactive tendencies illustrates how participants are utilizing their leadership potential and how they can grow and development their particular style.

The Mid-Career Leadership Program (MCLP) includes a mentored project. Each participant must develop and implement a leadership project during the course of the program. The Department Chair or other appropriate leader will serve as Mentor. The projects must be designed in collaboration with the mentor. Projects must serve an unmet leadership need of the Department/Division/Section/Center as mutually determined by the participant and mentor.

Regular program schedule

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Third Friday of every month, 8:00 am to 10:00 am (continental breakfast provided)
Education Building, Room 4203, 4610 X Street, Sacramento (except where otherwise noted)

Clinical Administration: Operations and Infrastructure

09/18/09 Inpatient and OR Services
Leaders: Carol Robinson, Philip Schneider

10/16/09 Managed Care and Clinic Operations: Contracts and Support Services
Leaders: Joanne Del Castello, Annie Wong

11/20/09 Relationship Between Medical Staff and Clinical Enterprise
Leader: Allan Siefkin

12/11/09   Budget Management and Business Reports: Finance and Professional Billing
                  Leaders: Peggy Arrivas, Ann Frankel
                   Education Building, Room 2204

Academic Administration: Personnel and Infrastructure

01/15/10 Balancing: Personal and Academic Career Planning
Leaders: Nathan Kuppermann, Ted Wun

Retaining and Nurturing a Diverse Faculty
Leaders: Francis Lu

02/19/10   A Leadership Model for Faculty in Academic Medicine
                   Leader: Tom Nesbitt

03/19/10 Institutional Collaboration and Team Leadership
                   Leader: Claire Pomeroy

04/16/10 Legal Issues: Making Tough Disciplinary Decisions
Leader: Anna Orlowski

05/21/10 Education Components: Residency and Fellowship Programs
Leaders: Mark Henderson, Jim Nuovo

06/18/10 Fostering a Research Program in Your Department, Unit or Section
Leader: Lars Berglund

07/16/10 Topic to be determined

08/20/10 Graduation

FOCUS workshops (mandatory)

Select Saturdays, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm (lunch provided)
Education Building, Room 4203, 4610 X Street, Sacramento (except where otherwise noted)

10/03/09 Leadership Styles
Leader: Gene Crumley
Education Building, Room 3202
This course introduces participants to the six styles of leadership developed by Dr. David McClelland, while he was at Harvard and, later, Boston University. The course explores how the six leadership styles can be used to drive performance, reach new levels of teamwork, and achieve sustained excellence.

01/30/10 The Leadership Circle Profile 360 Group Debrief
Leader: Gregg Servis
This course will explore the core tenants of authentic and creative leadership competencies and compare them to self-limiting reactive tendencies as presented in the Leadership Circle Profile, 360 assessment. The course will help participants to:

stimulate and accelerate individual leadership behavioral change
understand their own 360 degree feedback
increase self-awareness about leadership style, about specific competency strengths and weaknesses, and about the inner “operating system”
create quality actions plans for improvement for desired outcomes and project goals

02/20/10 Leading Complex Organizations
Leader: Gene Crumley
Borrowing from three academic disciplines (evolutionary biology, computer science, and social design) this course gives participants a new way of thinking about the UC Davis Health System and how leaders in UC Davis Health System can use these insights to advantage. The course explores a number of questions, including, “why is it so hard to predict how people in an organization will behave when things change?” and, “with all of the frenetic activity that goes on in an organization like UC Davis Health System, how does a leader know what to pay attention to and what to ignore?”

03/20/10 Difficult Conversations
Leaders: Gene Crumley / Gregg Servis
Any conversation we avoid having at work, because we are concerned things will get worse, is a “difficult” conversation. Any conversation we have at work that makes things worse is a “difficult” conversation. In this course we will examine a well-tested strategy to engage in difficult conversations successfully, so that both parties end the conversation feeling better about the other person, themselves, and the situation.