Vice Presidents of ResearchInternational Leadership Programme

October 2015 | June 2016

Delivered through partnership

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SRA International 500 N. Washington Street

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Full participation in the 8-month Vice Presidents of Research International Leadership Programme, including:

3 residential sessions6 monthly webinars

(Monday October 19 - Wednesday October 21, 2015) in Las Vegas

(Monday June 6 - Wednesday June 8, 2016) in Birmingham, UK

Registration for the SRA International Annual Meeting

Registration for the ARMA Annual Conference

All training materials

5 nights accommodation in Las Vegas (Paris Hotel)

2 nights accommodation in Copenhagen (4* hotel tbd)

4 nights accommodation in Birmingham, UK (Hilton Metropole)

All meals and refreshments for duration of residential events, SRA International Annual Meeting and ARMA Annual Conference

All other costs and incidental expenses, including international airfares and travel insurance are to be met by the participant.

Suite 300Falls Church, VA 22046

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The context and purpose

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Devising the research strategy and policies for their organization, which will include traditional academic research and also research with strategic partners, i.e. industry, international and/or third sector organizations thus devising strategy and policies that are responsive to academic need, social purpose and business demand.

Driving multidisciplinary partnerships and collaborations through effective stewardship of priority relationships and through the maintenance of a broad but relevant professional network.

the development of national and international research and research funding policy and translating those policies into organizational practices.

Advising and working on public engagement and advocacy.

Managing complex research support and research development teams.

Promoting research awareness and capability in the organization and research capacity by devising strategies for developing research talent, from early career researchers to more senior, experienced academics.

Maintaining awareness of funding opportunities and routes to market by creating effective research development strategies.

Contributing to their organization’s social responsibility agenda, often leading on business and community engagement through knowledge transfer, enterprise and research commercialization activities.

Within these complex and diverse environments it can be to time or suitable avenues for personal development

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The context and purpose

Vice Presidents of Research are increasingly requiredto play a more decisive strategic role within theirorganizations as the importance of research asa differentiator becomes ever more pronounced.

Executive research management teams are having tobe more conscious of and responsive to both impact and accountability so league rankings, market position, revenue streams and income levels derived throughresearch excellence are critical to the sustainabilityof their organizations.

Vice Presidents of Research are therefore now responsible not only for managing research portfolios but as part of executive groups they help institutions deliver against a range of key strategic activities:

for colleagues to besuccessful as effective leaders a commitment to continual professional development is critical.

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The solution

Underpinned by the principles of the Collaborative Leadership and Engaged Leadership models, the 8-month programme combines a mix of residential training with online learning, strengthened by the continual support of a personal, professional mentor and reinforced through the Programme cohort’s peer-to-peer network.

The solution

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“ A collaborative leader sets a new direction by ‘orchestrating’ collaborative activities, drawing in a diverse set of people and following through with a strong hand to get things done”. Harvard Business Review

The Collaborative Leadership Model

The Engaged Leadership Model

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INFLUENCECommunications & Connectedness

Create cross-functional collaboration and cohesive relationships to accomplish

change initiatives & performance results. Leverages network and

fosters connectedness .

IMPACT

Process & Performance

Leads by example. Guides process decisivel y. Elevates per formance with emphasis

on customer experience, profitable gr owth and

business value.

INSPIRATIONTalent Strategy & Workforce

Readiness

Determines right fit aler t. Engages talent from ever ywhere. Inspir es

trust and alignment towar d to common purpose.

INNOVATIONShaping Strategy

Facilitates idea sharing and knowledge transfer . Embraces

change and navigates risk to drive business per formance in alignment

with the long ter m vision.

PURPOSE PRODUCT

PROCESS PEOPLE

Engaging Individuals• Showing Genuine Concern• Enabling• Being Accessible

Engaging The Organization• Inspiring Others• Focussing Team Effort• Being Decisive

ting a Developmental Culture

Moving Forward Together• Networking• Builing Shar ed Vision• Resolving Complex Issues

Sensitively

The Vice Presidents of Research InternationalLeadership Programme has been developedand is delivered through a transatlanticpartnership between SRA International (US), the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK) and the Leadership Foundationfor Higher Education (UK). The program is designed to reflect and respond to the unique nature of the Vice President of Research role.

Intended to stimulate discussion, provoke debate and inform freshapproaches to leadership, the program has been designed to ensure an appropriate blend of active engagement with peers from across US, UK, Canada and Europe research and interaction with contemporaries from other sectors. A major benefit of participation will be the sharing of experiences and the exhange of ideas on topical subjects, such as measuring impact, managing open access, identifying metrics, accessing Horizon 2020 and experience ofmeasuring, translating and demonstrating research impact.

The program structure

The program structure

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1. Personal Leadership – What sort of leader do you want to be?

2. Professional Leadership – Why should others follow you?

3. Strategic Leadership – What does your organisation need and expect?

While these are presented as separate questions, in reality they are intrinsically linked, interweaving in important ways as leaders work to connect themselves and others with the life and work of an organization. These questions will be explored through group learning, individual feedback and and via an organization-based challenge.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY OCTOBER 17 & 18, 2015 (LAS VEGAS, USA)

1. Foundations of Leadership and Understanding Context

This session will focus on:

• An introduction to the program

• A review of leadership theory and practice (from Trait theory to Collaborative leadership)

• Why should people follow me? Leaders and followers – the dynamics of power and relationship and the importance of followership

• What sort of leader do you want to be? An exploration of preferred leadership styles

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2. Understanding Context – leading the Research discipline in the 21st Century

This session will focus on:

• The context of leading in a research environment with its challenges and opportunities

• Exploring purpose – the university, research and your department?

• The external environment – a PESTLE analysis

• The internal environment – discovering potential: what and where are the opportunities and challenges?

• Stakeholder analysis

• Identifying an organizational challenge (for individual participants to engage within their own institutions supported by the program)

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2015 (WEBINAR) (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST)

3. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

This webinar will focus on the importance of Emotional Intelligence in leadership and how to use Emotional Intelligence to be a more effective leader and communicator.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 15, 2015 (WEBINAR) (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST)

4. Creative Leadership in the 21st Century (panel discussion)

This webinar will take the form of a panel discussion with leaders from different sectors and will focus on the importance of creativitity in leadership and how to manage and encourage creativity and innovation in organizations.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20, 2016 (WEBINAR) (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST)

5. Nurturing Talent

This webinar will look at the importance of succession planning and how to nurture and manage talent in organizations.

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The program will be focused around threecore themes and questions:

An exploration of the role of the Research Executive and responsinilities using the 4 P’s of the collaborative leadership model.

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The program structure

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SATURDAY & SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20 & 21, 2016 (COPENHAGEN, DENMARK)

6. Leading the Research Team

This workshop will build on the outcomes of the Team Health Check and focus on:

• Building an understanding of managing an effective research team

• Team development and team dynamics (ideas from Tuckman, Lencioni and Belbin)

• Personality, team role preference and leadership style (questionnaire completed between session 1 and session 2)

• Applying insights from the 360-degree diagnostic (depending on the approach taken – see above)

• What motivates individuals and teams?

• Liberating leadership – Why should others follow you?

• Managing and developing talent

WEDNESDAY MARCH 23, 2016 (WEBINAR) (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST)

7. Managing Difference

This webinar will build on team development and the importance of making diversity in teams happen.

THURSDAY APRIL 21, 2016 (WEBINAR) (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST)

8. Understanding Culture and Change

This webinar will investigate the importance of organizational culture and the key components of the culture and how to manage change.

TUESDAY MAY 17, 2016 (WEBINAR) (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST)

9. Shaping and Inventing the Future

It is well known that a clear vision and values are crucial to shaping and inventing the future. This webinar will discuss how to ensure clarity and ownership in the creation of vision and values.

MONDAY 6 – WEDNESDAY JUNE 8, 2016 (BIRMINGHAM, UK)

10. Inventing the Future

This workshop will focus on:

• What does the organization need and expect?

• Being strategic – understanding and contributing to organizational strategy

• Strategic Leadership – vision, values and creating collective commitment

• Your organizational challenge (from the session) – presentations, feedback and review

• Leading change – models and conceptions of effective organizational change

• What’s next for the Research discipline?

• Marketing – internal communications and building external awareness?

• Action planning – where next for my development?

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Program information and overview

Program information and overview

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1. The cohort will comprise 10-12 Vice Presidents of Research

(or equivalent)

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3. The third residential session will take place in Copenhagen, giving participants an opportunity to connect and learn from representatives of the Danish Association of Research Managers and Administrators (DARMA) and the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA), as well as colleagues from the other Scandinavian research management societies.

4. Sessions will comprise a combination of formal presentations, panel sessions, group discussions, individual focus and social time and each residential session will include opportunities for formal and informal networking.

5. Invited contributors will include experts from government, higher education, industry, health research, business and commerce.

6. Prior to arriving in Las Vegas, participants will undertake a 360° feedback review and their respective teams will complete a Team Health Check. This will form the basis of an individual personal development plan, which will be throughout the course of the 8-month program.

7. Each participant will be required to identify and regularly connect with a professional mentor, ideally from outside the participant’s day-to-day environment, who will support them throughout the duration of the Programme (and hopefully beyond) to realize their personal objectives.

8. The Programme will include an organizational challenge, which participants will engage within their own institutions but supported by the Programme. For support between the sessions, in addition to their Professional Mentor, participants will be partnered with a fellow Programme participant from a contrasting international setting who will challenge and support them through the process (telephone or Skype).

9. The Programme will use an online professional network to share resources and contacts, to have themed discussions and to communicate Programme updates. A Twitter hashtag will also be used to generate contributions both on and ‘around’ the Programme.

10. Full attendance at all sessions and webinars is mandatory. Without complete buy-in, the value of participation is

from the US, UK, Canada and Europe who will participate in an 8-month leadership program consisting of three, two-night residential sessions, complemented by a suite of six webinars.

Two of the three residential sessions will be linked to the SRA International and ARMA Annual Conferences in order to maximize opportunities for participants to connect and to give them opportunity to attend their profession’s flagship US and UK conferences.

The delivery team

The delivery team

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Liz Ogilvie

Doug ParkinFormerly Head of Staff and Education Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Doug is responsible for a range of Leadership Foundation open programmes as well as undertaking bespoke consultancy assignments for universities. Key interests include educational and research leadership, the leadership of professional services, strategy development and leadership for sustainability. An accomplished teacher, facilitator, coach and conference speaker, Doug has achievements across a wide range of leadership, educational and organisational development projects.

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Marcia Landen

A former Director of Business Enterprise at Kingston College in London, Liz has over 25 years experience in designing, delivering and facilitatingtraining gained by working in organizational development at a senior level in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. She has particular expertise in the health and education sectors, specializing in management and leadership, training and development and facilitation. Liz works closely with ARMA on delivery of our successful Practical Creative Facilitation program. She has led on many successful leadership programs with the research environments, working in recent years on major programs with the UK’s Economics and Social Science Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, the Biological Science Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research.

Marcia has more than 30 years’ experience in research administration at universities in the United States, currently serving as the Assistant Vice President for Research Administration at the University of Southern Mississippi. She maintains relationships with and has responsibility for external funding from governmental agencies, business and industry, foundations and other nonprofits in the US and abroad. She oversees propsal submissions, award negotiations and financial management. Marcia has a particular interest in professional development and leadership and regularly presents conference sessions on these topics. She is active in SRA International and has held leadership positions in governance of the Society as well as in program planning and delivery.

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The partners

The partners

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Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) arma.ac.uk

ARMA is the UK’s only professional association for research managers and administrators, with over 2,600 individual members from across 250+ organisations, ranging from universities and funding bodies to the National Health Services and independent research institutions. ARMA’s mission is to enhance the profession of research management and to facilitate excellence in research through identifying, establishing and exchanging good practice in research management and administration. A organization, ARMA works to deliver its mission by providing professional in research management and administration; delivering formal training; providing information and support through regular communications and guidance materials; facilitating networking for the exchange of best practice and for mutual support amongst members; promoting strategic partnerships within and around the sector; representing the collective view of UK research managers and administrators through engagement with stakeholder organisations, policy makers and and raising the of research management and administration as a profession.

Leadership Foundation for Higher Education lfhe.ac.uk

The Leadership Foundation was established in 2004 by Universities UK and GuildHE, the UK’s two recognised representative bodies for higher education. The Leadership Foundation is the only body dedicated to providing leadership, governance and management and has a deep understanding of the business and culture of higher education. It is a membership organisation and for the last 11 years has served universities and higher education colleges through the provision of highly sophisticated and dynamic leadership programmes, designed to respond to the unique professional development requirements of senior professionals from across the entire activity of higher education.

Society of Research Administrators International (SRA International)srainternational.org

SRA International is a global research management society, providing education, professional development and the latest comprehensive information about research management to 5,000 members from over 50 countries. In this time of increasing international research collaborations, SRA International maintains the largest network of research managers in the world. Being part of this growing vibrant network gives members access to the changing research management landscape and foster relationships among collaborating institutions. SRA International’s major strength is its diversity, with a membership that spans the entire spectrum of research institutions including: colleges and universities, research hospitals and institutes, government agencies, funders of research, and industry.

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