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Professional Development Helps Employees Stay on the Leading Edge of Their Fields.

Professional development is an ongoing learning tool to help your employees or members not only gain competency in their fields, but to also excel. AAL designs and facilitates customized programs for administrators, staff, faculty, and students that meet the needs and expectations of the participants, while maintaining your organization’s mission.

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What Our Customized Programs Offer

Customized Teaching and Learning Programs 

AAL offers the following single-topic courses in teaching and learning, which can be presented as half- or full-day onsite programs or as online programs: 

  • Academic Integrity
  • Assessing Comprehension with Written Tests
  • Assessing Students’ Progress toward Clinical Competency
  • Clinical Teaching Best Practices
  • Competency-based Education
  • Constructing Case-based Assessments
  • Course Planning and Instructional Design
  • Curriculum Design and Management
  • Developing a Teaching Philosophy
  • Evidence-based Decision Making
  • The Generational Mix in Academic Health Professions Education
  • Giving and Receiving Feedback to Enhance Clinical Competency
  • Interprofessional Collaboration for Patient Care
  • Portfolios for Assessment
  • Professionalism and Ethics
  • Promoting Students’ Critical Thinking
  • Student Motivation, Civility, and Classroom Management
  • Teaching Effectively in the Classroom
  • Teaching Effectively Online
  • Motivational Interviewing for Patient Education and Risk Assessment
  • Teaching Psychomotor Skills
  • Using Case-based/Problem-based Learning to Enrich the Curriculum
  • Working Effectively with Challenging Students

Customized Leadership & Career Advancement Programs 

AAL offers the following single-topic courses in leadership development and career advancement, which can be presented as half- or full-day onsite programs or as online programs: 

  • Assessment for Leadership Development
  • Building and Leading High Performance Teams
  • Career Planning
  • Change Management
  • Collaborative Negotiation
  • Conducting Successful Meetings
  • Conflict Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • CV Writing
  • Enhancing Leadership Capacity through Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  • Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
  • Faculty Calibration and Motivation
  • Fundraising and Alumni Relations
  • Gender and Leadership
  • Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • Grant Writing
  • Job Search: Interviewing and Negotiating
  • Leadership Development and Theories of Leadership
  • Legal Issues in the Educational Environment
  • Making Quality Decisions and Qualities of Good Decision Makers
  • Managing New Tasks and New Challenges: The First 90 Days
  • Optimizing Mentoring Relationships
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Recruiting, Retaining, and Developing Faculty
  • Reframing Leadership
  • Scholarship, Research, and Publishing
  • Strategic Planning
  • Strategic Budgeting
  • Stress Management
  • Team Emotional and Social Intelligence
  • Time Management
  • Transitioning to Management
  • Well-being and Resilience 
  • Working Effectively with Senior Administrators
  • Writing Reviewer-friendly Manuscripts
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American Dental Education Association (ADEA)

ADEA wanted to reimagine talent development offerings for its members. Through customized programs, our team improved member impact, graduating one-third of U.S. dental deans from the ADEA Leadership Institute.

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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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