AACP is pleased to offer continuing education credits for the Academic Leadership Fellows Program. Detailed CE information can be found by clicking the session's respective link below. Questions related to CE should be directed to: cpd@aacp.org.

ALFP Cohort 21 Session I

ALFP 2024-2025 Cohort 21

Session I: Leadership and Self: Discovery and Teamwork

CPE Information

September 9-13, 2024

Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton VA

 

Target Audience

ALFP is planned and designed for leaders in academic pharmacy and higher education.

Agenda

Monday, September 9

3:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.

Introduction to Leadership

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe leadership styles, levels, and attributes.
  2. Evaluate key distinctions between leadership and management.
  3. Apply leadership concepts discussed to create an initial description of an ideal leader.
  4. Discuss transformational, servant, and relational leadership theories.

Sarah Shrader, Pharm.D., FCCP, Senior Director of Academic Programs and Professional Development, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-242-L99-P, 2.00 Contact Hours)

Wednesday, September 11

10:30 a.m.-Noon

The Art of the Great Question and Listening Effectively

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the various levels of listening and how to assess those as leaders.
  2. Apply the G.R.O.W. framework to active listening and framing powerful questions.
  3. Demonstrate the power of reframing as a tool to change the perspective on a team.

Sarah Shrader, Pharm.D., FCCP, Senior Director of Academic Programs and Professional Development, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, presented on behalf of Nance Lucas, Ph.D., Executive Director & Chief Well-Being Officer, Center for the Advancement of Well-Being and Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, George Mason University

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-243-L99-P, 1.50 Contact Hours)

Wednesday, September 11, 1:00 p.m.- Thursday, September 12, Noon 

Crucial Conversations 

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Define the key elements of a crucial conversation. 
  2. Describe the crucial conversation model for mastering dialogue.
  3. Select the appropriate communication concepts of get unstuck and master my stories to prepare for a crucial conversation.
  4. Differentiate crucial conversation tools of start with heart, state my path, make it safe, learn to look, and seek mutual purpose to use during a crucial conversation.
  5. Demonstrate crucial conversation concepts/tools applied to a personal leadership challenge.

Sarah Shrader, Pharm.D., FCCP, Senior Director of Academic Programs and Professional Development, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-244-L99-P, 7.50 Contact Hours)

1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Reframing Academic Leadership

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply Bolman and Deal’s four frames of organizations to pharmacy colleges and schools.
  2. Construct a frames-based action plan in response to an academic leadership challenge.
  3. Utilize Bolman and Deal’s four frames and CliftonStrengths results to assign roles to address a leadership challenge.  

Raylene M. Rospond Pharm.D., FCCP, Principal, Rays of Strength Consulting LLC

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-245-L99-P, 2.00 Contact Hours)

Friday, September 13

8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Professional Arguments & Debates

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the key components of an argument.
  2. Deliver a fully structured argument.
  3. Refute (respond to) an opposing argument.
  4. Identify the features of a good question.

Jonathan Wolfson, JD, Author of The Great Debate

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-246-L99-P, 2.25 Contact Hours)

10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.

Negotiation Skills

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify two types of negotiations. 
  2. Identify the type of negotiation the leader prefers to use.
  3. Identify the five steps in a productive negotiation.
  4. Recognize that zero sum negotiations are generally risky for everyone.

Jonathan Wolfson, JD, Author of The Great Debate

(Knowledge-based, 0581-0000-24-247-L99-P, 1.00 Contact Hour)

ACPE LogoThe American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Pharmacists may earn up to 16.25 hours of continuing education credits following the completion of ALFP Session I and corresponding CE activity assessments and evaluations. Accredited activities presented during ALFP Session I will discuss leadership-related topics. 

Continuing Education Credit Requirements

Fellows must attend the accredited continuing education activities and complete the CE post-assessments and activity evaluations by accessing the online AACP Continuing Education Administration platform, Learning Express CE (LECE). With the Access Code provided at the conclusion of ALFP Session I, attendees must complete the CE session assessments with a passing score of 75% and the CE session evaluations. Attendees will have 45 days following ALFP Session I to complete the CE requirements for credits. Access to session activity evaluations and assessments in LECE will be denied after October 28, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

CPE credit information will be electronically transmitted to CPE Monitor upon successful completion of the CE post-assessment and evaluation. Pharmacists should log in to their NABP e-profile to access information about their completed CPE and to print a valid statement of credit if needed.

Note, it is imperative that pharmacist attendee’s NABP e-Profile ID and birthdate (in MM/DD format) are correctly entered into their LECE profile and correspond with their NABP record. Failure to ensure this information is identical in both programs will jeopardize their earning CPE credits.

Registration Fees

The registration fee for the 2024-2025 Academic Leadership Fellows program is $10,600, which includes the program tuition, curriculum, speakers, leadership books, some meals, a one-year subscription to the Harvard Business Review, a team-building "ropes course", Gallup Clifton Strengths exercises, trips to DC-based museums and registration for the AACP INterim and Annual Meetings. There is no additional fee for continuing education credit.

Sponsors

No financial support was identified for any component of the accredited activities.

ALFP Cohort 21 Session II

ALFP 2024-2025 Cohort 21

Session II: Leadership Potpourri: Constructing Skills, Historical Perspectives and Higher Education

CPE Information

October 27-31, 2024

Westin Old Town Alexandria, VA

Target Audience

ALFP is planned and designed for leaders in academic pharmacy and higher education.

Agenda

Monday, October 28

9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Emotional Intelligence

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Define the concept of Emotional Intelligence.
  2. Apply knowledge of individual emotional intelligence elements to real-world scenarios that commonly impact our personal and professional lives.
  3. Create an action plan to enhance your leadership through development of emotional intelligence skills.

Speaker: Craig D. Cox, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, Professor, Pharmacy Practice & Division Head – Medicine, Regional Dean, Lubbock Campus, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-256-L99-P, 1.50 Contact Hours)

Tuesday, October 29

8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Change Management in Higher Education

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. List the strategies to identify the need for change
  2. Describe four change management frameworks/models
  3. List the elements of change management frameworks that are useful in facilitating change
  4. Describe factors that will contribute to successful change and how to facilitate them
  5. Outline how each of the change management frameworks account for obstacles to change

Speaker: Noel Wilkin, Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Professor of Pharmacy Administration, and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Mississippi

(Knowledge-based, 0581-0000-24-257-L99-P, 1.50 Contact Hours)

Advocacy Skills 

3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify two credible databases that inform evidence-based advocacy research.
  2. Demonstrate how strong relationships with partners, allies, and decision-makers can advance advocacy using a case study.
  3. Construct three clear and persuasive communication messages to diverse audiences.

Speaker: Olunife Akinmolayan, Pharm.D., Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Strategic Engagement, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-258-L99-P, 1.50 Contact Hours)

Thursday, October 31

8:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.

Crucial Conversations

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. List common signs when you and others do not feel safe in a crucial conversation.
  2. Define 4 common types of conflict in the workplace.
  3. Evaluate the impact of your preferred conflict management style in crucial conversations.
  4. Select the appropriate step(s) in the skill of seeing mutual purpose in a crucial conversation.
  5. Demonstrate the ABC when you disagree skill when exploring others’ paths in a crucial conversation.
  6. Develop an action plan that creates accountability and follow-up at the end of a crucial conversation.

Speaker: Sarah Shrader, Pharm.D., FCCP, Senior Director of Academic Programs and Professional Development, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

(Application-based, 0581-0000-24-259-L99-P, 3.50 Contact Hours)

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Pharmacists may earn up to 8.00 hours of continuing education credits following the completion of ALFP Session II and corresponding CE activity assessments and evaluations. Accredited activities presented during ALFP Session II will discuss leadership-related topics.

Continuing Education Credit Requirements

Fellows must attend the accredited continuing education activities and complete the CE post-assessments and activity evaluations by accessing the online AACP Continuing Education Administration platform, Learning Express CE (LECE). With the Access Code provided at the conclusion of ALFP Session II, attendees must complete the CE session assessments with a passing score of 75% and the CE session evaluations. Attendees will have 45 days following ALFP Session I to complete the CE requirements for credits. Access to session activity evaluations and assessments in LECE will be denied after December 15, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

CPE credit information will be electronically transmitted to CPE Monitor upon successful completion of the CE post-assessment and evaluation. Pharmacists should log in to their NABP e-profile to access information about their completed CPE and to print a valid statement of credit if needed.

Note, it is imperative that pharmacist attendee’s NABP e-Profile ID and birthdate (in MM/DD format) are correctly entered into their LECE profile and correspond with their NABP record. Failure to ensure this information is identical in both programs will jeopardize their earning CPE credits.

Registration Fees

The registration fee for the 2024-2025 Academic Leadership Fellows program is $10,600, which includes the program tuition, curriculum, speakers, leadership books, some meals, a one-year subscription to the Harvard Business Review, a team-building "ropes course", Gallup Clifton Strengths exercises, trips to DC-based museums and registration for the AACP INterim and Annual Meetings. There is no additional fee for continuing education credit.

Sponsors

No financial support was identified for any component of the accredited activities.

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