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The NIH Continuum of Leadership

Did you know that the NIH Training Center offers a deliberate continuum of leadership development programs to build leaders for today and tomorrow?

NIH Mid-Level Leadership Program NIH Senior Leadership Program NIH Executive Leadership Program
Duration 10-day program over 6 months
Six months of support to follow-up initial training		 9-day program over 4 months 13+ day program over 7 months
Targeted Group GS 12, 13, 14 and Title 42 equivalents GS 14, 15, SES and Title 42 equivalent leaders GS 15, SES and Title 42 equivalent leaders
Recruitment Model Individual recruitment Team/IC recruitment Individual recruitment
Application Process Competitive, standard application required, selections made within IC Selection process and requirements handled within IC Highly competitive, application and interviews with “Top 5” leadership required
Individual Assessment
  • 360 degree assessment
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  • Bar-on Emotional Quotient Inventory
  • Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
  • 360 degree assessment
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  • FIRO-B
Participants should receive a battery of leadership and personality assessments, including:
  • the 360-Degree Feedback (aligned to NIH’s Executive Proficiency model) and other leadership and/or personality assessments
Developmental Relationships Two hours coaching, with additional options available. Mentoring relationships required Coaching provided at off-site retreat with additional options available Coaching provided at off-site retreat and throughout program, with additional options.
Special events with NIH senior executives
Focus Areas Topics:
  • Self-Awareness and Leadership,
  • Collaboration,
  • Motivation and Development of Others,
  • Strategic Management
Topics:
  • Emotional Intelligence,
  • Data-Based Decision Making,
  • Negotiation,
  • Persuasion,
  • Paradoxes of Leadership,
  • Leading Change
Topics:
  • Leading at the Top,
  • Executive Communications,
  • Navigating the Public Sector,
  • Leadership Lens-Resilience and
  • Diversity, Leading Change- The Challenges Ahead
Development Guide
  • 360 degree assessments
  • Creating a Leadership Development Plan
  • Mentoring relationships required
  • 360 degree assessments
  • Creating a Leadership Development Plan
  • 360 degree assessments
  • Creating an Executive Development Plan
Extra-curricular Learning
  • On-the-job learning assignments
  • On-the-job reflection/application tasks
  • Coaching
  • Coaching at off-site retreat
  • Between-session recommended reading
  • On-the-job reflection/application tasks
  • Communications module-videotaped simulated interview
  • Coaching
    Paired with peer advisors
  • Action Learning Projects
This page was last reviewed on January 9, 2013