Assessment-Based Team Development

From executive teams to student leadership councils, everyone at your institution can benefit from assessments.

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The Data-Driven Approach to Team Development

Robust self-assessment tools can help individuals understand themselves and their contributions to the team. Especially in this turbulent era, it’s never been more important to understand their strengths and weaknesses and those of the teams to which they contribute.

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THE AAL APPROACH

With applicability from executive leadership teams to student leadership councils, the AAL approach starts with using valid and reliable assessment tools that enable leaders to understand their behaviors related to problem solving, influencing others, emotional intelligence, and the way they engage with their work environment—including six different motivators behind their behaviors.

The resulting reports not only provide practical feedback on strengths and weaknesses and ways to improve as a leader but also initiate “nonthreatening” conversations with other team members about each contributor’s strengths and weaknesses.

AAL then utilizes this data to conduct team development activities that target areas in need of enhancement and works with the institution to prescribe team performance benchmarks that can be measured and reassessed in the future. We conclude with action steps and goals for moving forward related to the leadership team and its engagement with the institutional community.

This work can be accomplished onsite or virtually, according to your needs.

How Our Process Works

Submit an RFP

Request a proposal based on your needs. Then, we’ll set up a discovery call to discuss your goals and establish a scope of work that aligns with them.

Implement Our Proposal

Our consultant will work with you to coordinate completion of the self-assessments, discuss the recommended development activities based on the results, and establish performance benchmarks prior to conducting the team development program.

Post-Program Check-in

At no additional charge, we will check-in with you at an agreed upon date after the program to ensure the desired actions are taking place and recommend any course corrections.

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The AAL Story

 

The Academy for Advancing Leadership (AAL) is a health and higher education consulting firm. We work with organizational leaders to achieve their goals through strategic planning and professional development. We have helped over 150 institutions and thousands of leaders advance in their fields. Unlike other firms, our clients engage directly with accomplished and seasoned experts to achieve objectives with agility.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Celebrating Almost Two Decades in Business

Launched in 2005, AAL is a collaborative of scholars, educational specialists, and consultants providing services that help leaders in businesses, nonprofits, and academia pursue excellence, the application of knowledge, the discovery of ideas, and the quest of lifelong learning. The AAL team strives to build long-term relationships based on superior service, mutual trust, and intellectual inspiration. We focus on professional development, consulting services, and the application of assessment technologies and informatics to solve our clients' challenges. We hope to get to know you and assist with your personal, professional, and organizational growth.

N. Karl Haden, PhD

President of AAL

Vision

Advancing health and higher education.

Mission

AAL builds and strengthens your unique value through results-driven consulting and professional development.

Core Values

Scholarship through continuous learning, discovery, dissemination of knowledge, and interprofessional collaboration.

Innovation through risk-taking and disruption of the status quo.

Integrity through doing the right things for the right reasons.

Excellence through superior quality, client satisfaction, and the assessment of outcomes.

Philanthropy through volunteerism and financial contribution.

Success Stories

“I've taken quite a few leadership courses and seminars; none come close to the material involved and coordination AAL. Sprinkle a little genuine interest in seeing us succeed and well intentions and you have the best leadership mentors PERIOD.”

Dr. Khaled Hussein

BronxCare Health System

“The program was very valuable in the way that it gave us some real tools, some real opportunities and ways to evaluate ourselves and our own approaches to leadership and then gave us an opportunity of how to apply that to interprofessional education. I think that was the best … the applicability of the tools that were provided to us and how we can utilize those were just amazing. It was very valuable and an opportunity to evaluate yourself with the tools that they provided to give an introspective look into your own leadership style and what other people thought of your leadership, and that was very powerful.”

Dr. Kevin Brueilly

Wingate University Levine College of Health Sciences

“I think the program was excellent. There were many excellent sessions. They were very stimulating. They kept us moving, very thought provoking. I thought the program overall was well designed, and as I said very thought provoking. For the inaugural program, it was well put together. You could see the passion in the instructors, who were very well versed in the topics that they talked about. I’m really pleased to be a part of this, and as a social worker, I really got a great sense of how interprofessional education can be very instrumental in terms of social workers working in healthcare settings. I think this is the wave of the future, and this program will gain traction in the future. I’m just glad to be a part of it.”

Dr. Martell Teasley

University of Utah College of Social Work

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