2008 Summer Seminar
Building and Leading High-Performing Teams: Essential Skills for Nursing Academic Leaders

July 20-23, 2008
Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf
San Francisco, California

Conference Highlights 

Much work in nursing education is done in teams, and facilitating the work of these teams is a critical element of success in academic leadership.  Although nurse educators typically have much experience working with groups, they may lack specific insights and skills that are pivotal to full success as team leaders.  This year's Summer Seminar focuses on the personal development of academic leaders into skilled team leaders who can garner support from team members to accomplish the important and increasingly complex work of nursing education.  Join a nationally recognized executive consultant to increase your ability to build, lead, evaluate, and guide teams.  Learn specific strategies and approaches to maximize your effectiveness as a leader.  Share successful strategies with colleagues, and take away ready-to-use tools.  Each day is devoted to a different aspect of the topic:

Monday: Understanding Coaching Leadership: Building and Leading Teams
Tuesday: Results Count: Adopting a Performance Management Approach
Wednesday: Balancing “Doing” and “Being”: Pursuing Personal Growth

About the Speaker

Lisa K. Nabors, MEd, PCC
Lisa Nabors, a partner with Strategic Performance Group, is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Ms. Nabors is a talented speaker and often makes presentations on the topic of coaching to industry and professional groups. She began coaching during her 16 years of experience as a successful, senior-level human relations/training and development professional in private industry. Ms. Nabors’ expertise includes gathering and feeding back data, cutting to the core issues, helping clients consider choices, and then creating action plans designed to achieve specific, measurable results.

Her passion is in optimizing individual, team and organization performance, and her coaching clients include managers, executives and teams in organizations such as America Online, the American Association of Retired Persons, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Kaiser Permanente, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In addition to her coaching practice, Ms. Nabors consults with clients in the private, not-for-profit and federal sectors and offers her expertise in the areas of strategic thinking, change management, leadership development and organizational change. She has facilitated hundreds of small and large group meetings, including a one-day Strategy Session on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Students held at the White House. Ms. Nabors earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education degrees from the University of Maryland, where she also has completed doctoral-level coursework on leadership effectiveness. In 2007, she served as subject matter expert and editor for the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Coaching Certificate Program and delivered the program to an international class prior to ASTD’s International Conference and Exposition in Atlanta, GA.

She is an adjunct faculty member for Marymount University and The George Washington University, and she is the coauthor of The Dialogue Deck, Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model (Sage, 2002), and the upcoming Organizational Coaching: Building Relationships, Processes, and Programs That Drive Results (ASTD Press, 2008).

Conference Schedule

Sunday, July 20

4:00-6:00 p.m.
Registration

6:00-7:30 p.m.
Reception (cash bar)

Monday, July 21

7:30-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (including break)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Program Session
Understanding Coaching Leadership: Building and Leading Teams
Examine what makes a good or a dysfunctional team. Identify the challenges and rewards of working in teams and the infrastructure required to utilize teams effectively.  Use self-assessment approaches to determine what kind of leader you are. Build your own personal leadership "brand" and create a purpose statement based on your own past successes that can guide your future successes. Topics include:

  • It Starts with Me: Self-assessment
  • My purpose statement/leadership brand
  • Enrolling others in the vision
  • Creating a team charter

Tuesday, July 22

7:30-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (including break)
Program Session
Results Count: Adopting a Performance Management Approach
Set people up to succeed and consider how they know what they are expected to do. Have productive conversations with employees, avoiding language errors that throw away power. Provide ongoing feedback to motivate and correct, and attend to the ongoing development needs of team members.  Topics include:  

  • Communicating the “what”, discovering the “how”
  • Setting objectives and tracking progress
  • A new look at feedback: the SBI model
  • Using curiosity, not judgment:  Framing powerful questions
  • Team event: toxic waste
  • Celebrating successes

Wednesday, July 23

7:30-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (including break)
Program Session
Balancing “Doing” and “Being”: Pursuing Personal Growth
The team leader needs developmental opportunities, too! Identify the facilitators of and impediments to personal leadership success on the job; share ideas with colleagues; and begin to create a tactical plan for success on the job. Clarify what it takes to find balance between personal and professional commitments; to make choices and acknowledge their consequences.  Topics include:

  • What facilitates/inhibits personal growth in your environment?
  • Aligning intentions with perceptions
  • Making choices, facing consequences
  • Who am I being? LeaderFISH headline exercise

General Information

Registration
The registration fee is $389 for members/ $489 for non-members.  The deadline for early registration is June 27, 2008.  The registration fee after June 27 is $459 for members/ $559 for non-members.  For AACN member schools, there is a $30 discount for each additional registrant from the same school.  Email messages confirming registration will be sent to all participants. 

Register online at https://www.aacn.nche.edu/Registration.

Hotel Information
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf, 555 North Point Street, San Francisco, CA 94133. The room rate is $199 single/double. The cutoff date for room reservations is June 16, 2008. For reservations, please call Hyatt at (415)563-1234 and reference the American Association of Colleges of Nursing or AACN. Reservations made after June 16 will be on a space and rate availability basis.

Transportation
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is approximately 15 miles from the Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf. Taxi service is available for approximately $45. A variety of shuttle services can be accessed through the San Francisco International Airport website at (http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/tofrom/transp-serv/dtd/), offering rates varying between $15 - $40. 

Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education contact hours will be provided by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to all conference participants at no additional cost. CE Certificates will be provided in your conference packet.

Refund and Cancellation Policy
Registrations that are cancelled up to one week before the meeting will be refunded minus a $50 administrative fee. Cancellations received with less than one week’s notice will be refunded minus a $150 administrative fee. There will be no refunds for no-shows. 

AACN reserves the right to cancel this conference and any group activity that does not meet minimal group requirements. Non-refundable airline tickets are the responsibility of the registrant. 

Additional Information
For more information, contact AACN, One Dupont Circle, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 463-6930.  If you require any special access in order to take part in this meeting, please contact Meghan DeFord at AACN or by email at mdeford@aacn.nche.edu. Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

Information about this and other AACN conferences is available at the AACN website: www.aacn.nche.edu/conferences

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Magical Marin Tour, July 21
(Approximately 4 hours)
Cost: $54.00
Register for tour with conference registration at: https://www.aacn.nche.edu/Registration/registration.asp

Today you will cross the magnificent Golden Gate Bridge into fabled Marin County, with its astonishingly varied land and seascapes. Driving along the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, deluxe minicoach will thread their way down the winding mountain road to Muir Woods National Monument. One of the first parks ever set aside for the coastal redwoods, this national park was named for the renowned conservationist, John Muir. The sequoias located here have a biological ancestry dating back well over a million years. Fossils of virtually identical trees appear in the record from some 160 to 170 million years ago, the Jurassic Age of dinosaurs. These fossils are found across the Northern Hemisphere, in Manchuria, France, Alaska, Greenland and even on Arctic islands.

Redwoods have no aging mechanisms, are extremely resistant to disease, and have few natural enemies. Thus individual redwoods can live to be thousands of years old. Your guests will have time to wander among these ancient trees. They will come away with a sense of the immense grandeur and spans of time encompassed by this noble forest. Next your guests will visit sparkling Sausalito, a Riviera-like bayside village with its winding wooded streets, eclectic houseboats, unique boutiques and art galleries. There will be ample time to explore the shops and galleries, or simply stroll along the waterfront and view the San Francisco skyline and Bay.

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Chinatown Discovery - A Walking Excursion, July 22
(Approximately 3 hours)
Cost: $39.00
Register for tour with conference registration at:
https://www.aacn.nche.edu/Registration/registration.asp

Discover exotic Chinatown on foot! In downtown San Francisco, the present has been built over the remnants of the past. This is especially true of Chinatown. From the towering steel and concrete of San Francisco’s Financial District, you will pass the historic Lion Gates and be transported into the "city-within-the-City", which recalls the days of early Chinese immigration. The first Chinese settled these streets during the Gold Rush and were swiftly followed by thousands of others. Today, San Francisco's Chinese population is one of the largest outside of Asia. You will walk down Grant Avenue, the bustling, exotic main street of Chinatown, whose many shops specialize in eve rything from rare jade, ivory and silk, to back scratchers and wind-up Godzilla toys.

There may be a visit to an authentic fortune cookie factory. You may also visit a Chinese temple where clouds of incense waft from upper windows carrying prayers heavenward. You will meander down mysterious back alleys that recall the long-ago days when opium dens flourished in this area. Herbal shops, offering jars of ginseng root, alternate with Chinese groceries, whose windows display smoked ducks. Aromas from innumerable Chinatown restaurants combine with the sounds of many Chinese dialects spoken around you. Chinese language movie theaters and newspapers complete the illusion of a visit to Hong Kong. At the end of the day, the motorcoach will return you to your hotel.

 

 

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