2009 Summer Seminar
Practicing Reality-Based Leadership in Challenging Times

July 19-22, 2009
Eldorado Hotel and Spa
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Conference Schedule  •  Activities  •  General Information

Conference Highlights 

Nursing education is facing escalating challenges in terms of decreasing fiscal and faculty resources, increasing applicants, expanding curricula, new expectations from university stakeholders and health care consumers, and many other large and small concerns. Nursing academic leaders must recognize and deal effectively with complex issues if their organizations are to respond positively, weather the challenges, and stay viable for the future. This year's Summer Seminar focuses on the personal development of academic leaders with particular emphasis on new leadership skills required by turbulent times. Join a nationally recognized executive consultant to maximize your effectiveness as a leader during difficult times. Share successful strategies with colleagues, and take away ready-to-use approaches. Each day is devoted to a different aspect of the topic:

Monday: Reality-Based Leadership
Tuesday: New Leadership Skills for Changing Times
Wednesday: Re-routing Your Thinking

Note: Resort casual attire recommended for this conference.

About the Speaker

Cynthia Wakeman
Cynthia “Cy” Wakeman works with organizations and individuals eager to thrive in difficult times by discovering new solutions to old problems. She has helped many groups and organizations break through their reasons, stories, and excuses to develop innovative solutions to long-standing issues.  Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for achieving amazing results in spite of limited resources and challenging circumstances. Clients in a wide variety of industries have found her guidance to be key in their successful planning and implementation of new programs and systems. 

Cy holds baccalaureate degrees in Political Science and Social Work. She also earned a master’s degree in Health Administration with an emphasis on Organizational Development. She has a unique background, which combines four successful business start- ups with 18 years working and consulting in a variety of arenas including manufacturing, government, high-tech and health care. With particular expertise in leadership and change management principles, she has led strategic planning efforts, culture change initiatives, talent assessment, and succession planning projects.  

Participants in Cy’s programs consistently give rave reviews, evaluating the programs as the single most impactful training they have ever experienced. Months and years later, participants still talk about and apply the information delivered in her workshops.


Conference Schedule

Sunday, July 19

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

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

Monday, July 20

8:00-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast           

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (including break)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Program Session
Reality-Based Leadership
Nursing academic leaders certainly face challenging times today. Here’s the reality check - The fact that times are challenging is not the source of our pain. The source of our pain is the absence of great leadership based in reality.  We must be more willing to admit that the ways in which we have been taught and have taught our leaders to lead over the years is simply not working – not creating the results or the quality of life that we would like in our organizations. These times are calling for a new type of leader. We need leaders who are willing and able to recreate mindsets -- their own and the mindsets of others -- in order to change circumstances and lead in a new and revolutionary way.  Learn key principles of Cy’s new wave of leadership - Reality-Based Leadership™ and powerful strategies to help you:

  • Use leadership development efforts to create an environment of peace, sanity, and results in the workplace – the ultimate measure of employee engagement
  • Ground your organization’s leadership in reality, conserving precious team resources for those activities that will produce high impact
  • Stop enabling team members to disengage
  • Build a performance expectation of "thrivability" for each employee
  • Create a culture of alignment, buy-in, and full use of talent

Tuesday, July 21

8:00-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (including break)
Program Session
New Leadership Skills for Changing Times
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” The most sought-after yet lacking competency in our leadership ranks today is the ability to successfully lead in profoundly changing times. In order to lead change, we must completely recreate leader mindsets to act in ways seemingly counter-intuitive to the techniques that have made them successful in the past. Consider simple yet powerful strategies to help you:

  • Understand typical individual responses to change events
  • Move from a mentality of helplessness to personal accountability
  • Gain clarity on the three stages of organizational change and their role in each stage
  • Learn to love and expect resistance to change and utilize the energy of resistance
  • Avoid the most common things leaders do to create barriers to their own change efforts

Wednesday, July 22

8:00-8:30 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (including break)
Program Session
Re-routing Your Thinking
Learn how to create amazing results in your own organization.  See how fast-paced organizations can thrive in challenging times as they break through “learned helplessness” and rally their teams to respond to challenges while maintaining 100% accountability using the actual tool set of Reality Based Leadership.  Participants will walk away with a variety of concrete tools such as:

  • Negative brainstorming
  • Thinking inside the box
  • Bullet-proofing others

Take advantage of stimulating discussion with Cy and academic colleagues – discovering real solutions to real challenges


Activities

Activities have been cancelled do to low registration.
Refunds will be isssued.

Monday July 20, 1:30-3:30 p.m. - Cancelled
"Aboot About" Santa Fe Historic Walk  

Monday July 20, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. - Cancelled
"Aspook About" Santa Fe

Tuesday July 21, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. - Cancelled
Bandelier and Los Alamos      


General Information

Registration
The registration fee is $399 for members/ $499 for non-members. The deadline for early registration is June 22, 2009.  The registration fee after June 22 is $469 for members/ $569 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 Eldorado Hotel & Spa. The room rate is $199 single/double. The cutoff date for room reservations is June 15, 2009.  For reservations, please call the Eldorado at (800) 955-4455 or (505) 988-4455 and reference the American Association of Colleges of Nursing or AACN. To make an online reservation, click here. Reservations made after June 15 will be on a space and rate availability basis.

Transportation
Arriving at Albuquerque International Airport, Santa Fe is an hour by either rental car or shuttle service.  A shuttle is available between the airport and the hotel for $25.00 one way or $45.00 round trip. For further information call 888-775-5696 or visit http://www.eldoradohotel.com/santa_fe/transportation.htm. 

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 Erica Turner at AACN or by email at eturner@aacn.nche.edu. The Eldorado Hotel & Spa is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

 

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