Institute for Teaching and Learning—AAL, in collaboration with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), conducts the Institute for Teaching and Learning (ITL) to assist current faculty in the academic health professions to become more effective teachers and academic leaders. The ITL program also prepares private practitioners for new careers in higher education. Participants will experience a blended learning format, with two phases of onsite programming and a between-phases webinar and teach-back opportunities. For more information, CLICK HERE >>

Institute for Allied Health Educators—AAL also teams with ADEA to conduct the Institute for Allied Health Educators (IAHE) for faculty and leaders in allied health fields, including dental hygiene, physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiology, respiratory care, and speech and hearing therapy. The program addresses the unique needs of allied health professionals to improve their teaching and leadership skills. The IAHE is a distance-learning program, with synchronous, live webinars and self-study (asynchronous) modules. For more information, CLICK HERE >>

The program is a practical, hands-on, interactive experience that develops the core competencies required for effectively managing the department or academic program. Many administrative executives experience a need to improve their overall management and leadership skills as a prerequisite for continued growth and promotion. CAAMP includes many opportunities to achieve insights into one’s leadership and interpersonal styles, so each participant can grow professionally and personally. For more information, CLICK HERE >>

The Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching (CalTEACH) is an inter-professional program focused on the unique needs of academic health care faculty. CalTEACH is designed for new faculty, private practice health professionals who are making a transition to academic careers, and any faculty members who wish to improve their teaching skills. Faculty from medical, dental, pharmacy, and other health professions schools and programs are encouraged to attend. For more information, CLICK HERE >>

Designed to meet the unique needs of two-year colleges, the four-day, intensive program entitled Field Guide for Administrators is ideal for those new to college leadership as well as for seasoned administrators. Your entire team will benefit from this state-of-the-art training focused on strengthening your institution, ensuring quality, increasing enrollment, developing faculty and staff, resolving conflicts, and maintaining accountability and accreditation. For more information, CLICK HERE >>

AAL conducts advanced leadership training for academic and corporate executives. The seminars focus on management and leadership principles to assist the mid-career and senior executive to better understand and cope with their growing scope of responsibility.

Increasingly we are coming to understand that the skills and attributes associated with emotional—rather than cognitive—intelligence are important predictors of an individual’s ability to succeed in meeting the demands of leadership in complex organizations. The Academy for Academic Leadership offers a variety of professional development programs in emotional intelligence. Through these programs, the components of emotional intelligence are described and explored, and participants have opportunities to evaluate their own emotional intelligence competencies. Participants examine the manifestations of emotional intelligence in academic work environments, and gain an understanding of how these competencies can be learned and used to improve workplace effectiveness. The Academy’s Emotionally Intelligent Leader Workshop is one of its most popular programs in this area. For more information, CLICK HERE>>.

AAL conducts more than 20 focused workshops that address key growth and development needs of health educators, both teaching and research components. The workshops are conducted in-house and are tailored to meet the specific needs of the participants. Some of the key workshop topics include:

AAL fosters a commitment to life-long learning by providing programs and retreats that bring together a diverse group of scholars, entrepreneurs, artists, corporate executives, and intellectuals who are interested in pursuing intellectual growth and stimulation.

Athena Society—the Athena Society is designed to lead individuals to fully experience what Aristotle calls “the good life.” In themed immersion events held over several days at prime locations around the world, Athena Society Fellows engage with internationally recognized leaders, change agents, and people of influence. Through background readings, presentations, deep discussion, and continuing dialogue, participants examine the fundamental concepts for a good life and prepare themselves to live creatively and professionally. Fellows include executives, health care professionals, entrepreneurs, university faculty and administrators, attorneys, artists, writers, and others who share the love of intellectual enlightenment.

Meaning of Work Seminar—the Meaning of Work Seminar is designed to give busy professionals the opportunity to reflect on life’s most important questions; namely, what is the meaning of happiness? What makes life successful? What is the relationship of happiness to work and other dimensions of human life? Since, for most people, work occupies a significant amount of time each day and each week, the seminar assists participants in gaining perspective on one’s work in the context of a good life. Building on ideas from history’s greatest thinkers, participants consider various dimensions of life, individual purpose, values, and the importance of habits in leading a good life. Participants leave with an action plan to revitalize their work and leisure time.

Whole Life Retirement Planning—due to the emergence of 78 million Baby Boomers who are just beginning to enter their retirement years, including those in the professions where AAL practices, and the desire to find ways to harness and direct the enormous amount of intellectual resources in retirees, AAL identified a need to provide guidance and direction to pre and post-retirees to help them do a better job of planning for their retirement years. While most retirement plans limit the planning horizon to financial matters, the AAL approach deals with the whole life considerations that a retiree must consider in developing a more comprehensive retirement plan. The intent is to provide a framework for helping seniors to determine what they want and need to do in retirement to achieve true happiness and personal fulfillment. The foundation for the program is the book Retirement Renaissance™ authored by Bill Clarke, Senior Consultant for AAL. Retirement Renaissance deals with the real world issues that retirees struggle with prior to retirement and the actual realities of life after retirement. The first several chapters provide an overview of the “renaissance” that is beginning to occur with retirement planning. The expectation of a “gold watch at 65” or a traditional retirement is changing. The Boomers are challenging the existing paradigm about when to retire, what to do in retirement, or whether to retire at all in a traditional sense. Many Boomers will continue to work, full or part-time, regardless of their economic status because they view work and career as an integral part of a whole and satisfying lifestyle. The new paradigm views retirement as one possible option rather than a necessity. The main thrust of the book and program is to provide a prospective or new retiree with the tools needed to prepare a comprehensive and personalized retirement plan that touches all aspects of retirement life.
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