Leadership Development Program
Ready, Set, Lead!
If you want to...
- Acquire leadership skills to advance your career
- Build a lifelong professional network
- Give back to your profession through volunteer service
- Influence policies, programs, and services
Then you should consider participating in ASHA's Leadership Development Program!
What is ASHA's Leadership Development Program (LDP)?
The Leadership Development Program is a year-long program for ASHA members with leadership potential. The program encourages you to develop your leadership skills and give back to the professions through volunteering—whether with ASHA, at your workplace or for a related professional organization.
Here are what current Leadership Development Program participants are saying about the most rewarding aspects of the LDP program:
- Collaborating with colleagues
- Learning new ideas/strategies for setting goals, formulating a project and articulating a vision
- Being able to discover my strengths and challenges as a leader and to develop those further along with my colleagues
- Gaining leadership perspective from professionals
- Gaining a leadership support staff of friends
There are two cohorts of the Leadership Development Program. One is specifically designed for speech-language pathologists in health care settings (Leadership Development in Health Care Program), and the other is specifically designed for audiologists (Leadership Development in Audiology Program).
What are the components of the Program?
If selected, you must commit to all program components:
- Participate in a full-day Leadership Development Program face-to-face workshop.
- Participate in six webinars over the course of the next year on selected leadership topics.
- Develop and complete an individual leadership project and actively participate on your learning team.
What are sample Leadership Projects?
Here are examples of past Leadership Health Care Projects:
- Five U.S. speech-language-hearing associations organized "Sponsored Silence" programs to increase public awareness about the importance of communication. Participants learned about the isolation that can occur when communication is disrupted, and the role of the speech and hearing professional.
- Educated the community on standards of care for concussion management
- Developed and implemented a nine-month mentoring program for SLPs within a company
- Established a fully-integrated developmental therapy program in a neonatal intensive care unit
Here are examples of past Leadership Audiology Projects:
- Developed and proposed a feasible business plan toward expanding audiology clinical services to an off-site location through collaboration/consultation with personnel from various services at a medical center
- Created a tool for treating left neglect.
- Developed initial usage of extended wear hearing devices in our private practice and evaluated complete implementation from initial steps of bringing the product into the clinic and utilizing ongoing coaching techniques to change strategies for patients in our office from appointments to follow-up care.
When is the Leadership Development Program kickoff workshop?
Leadership Development in Health Care Program
The face-to-face workshop for the Leadership Development in Health Care Program is Friday, April 27, 2012, in Memphis, Tennessee, with six webinars and team meetings over the course of the next year on selected leadership topics.
Leadership Development in Audiology Program
The face-to-face workshop for the Leadership Development in Audiology Program is Saturday, July 14, 2012, at the ASHA National Office in Rockville, Maryland, with six webinars and team meetings over the course of the next year on selected leadership topics.
Only thirty people will be selected to participate in each Program.
What is a Learning Team?
Participants are assigned to a learning team made up of other participants. Participants meet/work with their team at the workshop and throughout the year virtually. This team serves as their project advisory board. Teams are meant to be independent and schedule their own virtual team meetings spread over the year and are to provide the venue for deeper interactions and exploration of the content provided by the LDP webinar sessions.
Is there a fee to participate?
Yes. If your application is accepted, you pay a nominal fee of $350, which covers the one-day face-to-face program, one night's hotel accommodation, meeting materials, and webinars. If you do not need hotel accommodations, the fee is $250.
Leadership Development in Health Care Program
For Leadership Development in Health Care Program participants: If you are participating in the Health Care Conference, you are responsible for registration and expenses associated with the Health Care Conference/Business Institute if you choose to attend. The ASHA Health Care Conference/ Business Institute will be held April 28–29, 2012; your attendance at this conference, which is separate from the Leadership Development in Health Care Program, is encouraged but not required.
Who can apply?
We're seeking energetic people who are motivated to influence professional issues in health care or audiology. If that's you...and you meet the following criteria, apply!
- Current ASHA member
- No prior service on an ASHA or Special Interest Group committee, board, council, working group, or task force. Leaders in state associations are welcome to apply.
- Able to commit to participate in the year-long program and complete all program requirements
How do I apply?
Leadership Development in Health Care Program
If you are interested in applying for the Leadership Development in Health Care Program, the application period is Tuesday, November 22 through Sunday, January 29, 2012. This is a competitive application process. Applications will be reviewed and participants notified of their status by mid-February 2012.
Leadership Development in Audiology Program
If you are interested in applying for the Leadership Development in Audiology Program, the application period is Monday, February 6 through Friday, April 13, 2012. This is a competitive application process. Applications will be reviewed and participants notified of their status by early May 2012.
Please follow the below steps to apply during the application period.
- Send an e-mail to governance@asha.org during the application period.
- Put "Leadership in Health Care Program" or "Leadership in Audiology Program" in the subject line
- Provide your full name and ASHA membership number.
- Log onto the online application center once you receive the link (within 24 business hours).
- For the Leadership Development in Health Care Program, submit a completed application by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Sunday, January 29, 2012.
For the Leadership Development in Audiology Program, submit a completed application by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Friday, April 13, 2012.
Questions?
Contact Haley Jones, ASHA's Volunteer Operations Manager, at hjones@asha.org.