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About Elevate Your Potential

Leadership is more than a title – it involves the ability to influence others, create meaningful impact, and effectively leverage your strengths to achieve common goals. Amid ongoing changes in academic medicine, strong leadership is crucial at all levels, and you have the potential to make a difference.  As roles and responsibilities evolve, core leadership skills are essential for your success both now and in the future. 

As the second program within the new AAMC CORE Leadership Development portfolio, Elevate Your Potential offers faculty professional, and administrative staff the unique opportunity to strengthen their leadership skills and build credibility in a dynamic and inclusive environment. Designed for entry and mid-level professionals eager to communicate effectively, cultivate mutual respect, and inspire positive change, this program offers a dynamic and collaborative space for learning and sharing insights with peers throughout the health system.  Participants will develop a personalized leadership development roadmap with guidance from expert facilitators, allowing for targeted growth and the ability to apply new strategies in their day-to-day roles. 

What to Expect

Through personal reflection, structured group work, case studies, and action planning sessions, participants will gain insights into:

• Forming their leadership identity: Discover your unique strengths and how self-awareness enhances leadership effectiveness. Engage in real-world scenarios to refine your leadership style and increase your capacity for impactful decision-making. 
• Building their leadership capacities: Authenticity drives effectiveness.  Learn to leverage your leadership abilities to influence others, regardless of title or tenure.  
• Realizing their impact: Everyone can shape processes, improve interactions, and drive positive change. Gain strategies to overcome institutional barriers and foster innovation.

Who Should Attend?

This foundational program is ideal for individual contributors aiming to enhance their skills, new and emerging leaders wanting to develop their leadership capabilities and experienced leaders who have not received formal leadership training. This program is well-suited for entry and mid-level staff and faculty aiming to enhance their professional performance to achieve personal, team, or organizational goals.  

This program is open to faculty, professional, and administrative staff from across academic medicine and science.

Titles may include administrative assistant, advisor, analyst, assistant or associate director, assistant or associate professor, coordinator, manager, instructor, lecturer, laboratory support, specialist, staff scientist, and others. 

Responsibilities may include providing administrative support for a department or unit, providing specialized skills or expertise on a particular function, academic advising/counseling, office or operations management, medical education, community liaison, human resource management, library operations, laboratory research/management, assessment/research, teaching, medical research, clinical practice, student and resident affairs professionals, development, and facilities. 

To register for and attend an AAMC meeting, you must be affiliated with an AAMC member institution. Registrants must have roles supporting academic medicine and science through medical education, health care, medical research, and community collaborations. Non-members of AAMC member institutions may be permitted to attend if space allows.   

Learning Objectives

At program completion, participants will be ready to immediately:

• Establish themselves as credible leaders throughout their organization.
• Use effective communication strategies to build strong relationships. 
• Build trust and establish themselves as authentic leaders.
• Identify and remove barriers to initiative-taking leadership.

Additional Information

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