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The Sabin Vaccine Institute in partnership with The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) and Adaptive Change Advisors (ACA) invites applications for the second cohort of the Scholar Level 1 Certification Course on Adaptive Leadership .
The Sabin Vaccine Institute is organizing this course as part of its Boost Community, a global network of immunization professionals.
By joining this course, you are joining a network of nearly 200 Boost Scholar alumni.
“My mindset about leadership has changed. I have now realized that leadership is not necessarily authority but the ability to mobilize people to solve a problem.”
“I learnt the true meaning of leadership, what it entails and how it should be. This helped in changing my mindset a lot for the better. I will use what I learned to improve my team on strategizing and making the best decisions for our support for the immunization system.”
Boost is building a world where immunization professionals are empowered to grow and lead in their careers and accelerate change in their communities.
The Boost community is designed to empower its members with the connections, support and resources needed to navigate and lead in challenging contexts and expand networks around the world.
And we shall not rest until all people receive the vaccines they need, when they need them. But…
We work every day and do what we can. But can we call ourselves leaders?
Yes!
If you wait for those with authority to lead, you may wait a long time.
Leadership is about everyday change that adds up to consequential change.
“We have to lobby at all levels to get what we need. As county nurses, we try to talk to the county health assembly to convince them of what we need. We try to prepare our arguments and data carefully. Sometimes they listen to us, but most times they do not take our inputs.” – A Public Health Nurse, County EPI focal point, Narok, Kenya
“Immunization professionals’ lives are about reacting to what’s on their desks. Immunization professionals are at the mercy of their managers. Immunization professionals are not able to drive priorities in their own work.” – An Immunization Implementing Partner
This six-week learning journey will convene immunization professionals from all over the world who wish to tackle challenges together:
This course is not for everybody. It is for people working in immunization who are yearning to make a difference – but who know that forging headfirst is unlikely to lead anywhere.
Over the past decade, Eric Martin has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Here is how he explains it:
“Adaptive Leadership involves motivating people to tackle problems without known solutions – what are known as adaptive challenges. With adaptive challenges, there won’t be a simple fix. Addressing these challenges demands time, learning and a shift in the way people think.
When working on the problem makes people feel uncomfortable, or when moving forward feels risky, it’s a good sign that what you’re facing calls for Adaptive Leadership. Adaptive Leadership is not a personality trait nor a title. It’s a moment, a choice, that presents itself to everyone everyday.”
You stand to benefit from this course if…
The peer learning process will be facilitated by the Scholar Team from The Geneva Learning Foundation.
November 16–20 2020
November 23–27 2020
November 30–December 4, 2020
December 7–11, 2020
December 14–18, 2020
December 19, 2020–January 3, 2021
January 4–8, 2021
January 11–15, 2021
January 18–22, 2021
This course will use the Scholar package, a set of interventions developed by the Geneva Learning Foundation to support effective learning for global health and humanitarian work.
Participants in this course will be ‘peers’ because they work in the same field and are interested in the course topic. Most people recognize that adult learners can learn from each other through ‘peer learning’.
You may be skeptical about how much you can learn from other participants – given that you do not know their expertise or experience.
The course will offer you many ways to receive guidance, support, and feedback from its faculty, who will provide guidance when and if it is needed.
Here are some examples:
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they are able to meet the following requirements.
The Scholar community is devoted to learning and the creation of knowledge. We view integrity as the basis for meaningful collaboration. We thus hold honesty – in the representation of our work and in our interactions – as the foundation of our community.
Members of the Scholar community commit themselves to producing course work of integrity – that is, work that adheres to the scholarly and intellectual standards of accurate attribution of sources, appropriate collection and use of data, and transparent acknowledgement of the contribution of others to their ideas, discoveries, interpretations, and conclusions. Cheating on assignments or projects, plagiarizing or misrepresenting the ideas or language of someone else as one’s own, falsifying data, or any other instance of dishonesty violates the standards of our community, as well as the standards of the wider world of immunization.
Scholar course participants are required to adhere to a strict Honor Code. Violation of the Honor Code may result in removal from the course, loss of certification (including prior Scholar certificates), and notification of your employer.
Participants should expect to:
Each set of course activities must be completed within a given week. Participants may schedule their work at any time during the week, except for the weekly group session which is scheduled at a fixed day and time each week. (Those unable to attend for a legitimate reason will be asked to view the recording and complete a catch-up task.)
Upon successful completion of the course and following validation of your final project and assignments by the course team, you will receive a certificate of completion issued by The Geneva Learning Foundation and the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
The Sabin Vaccine Institute and The Geneva Learning Foundation may review projects developed by Scholars and may consider some of them for use in their communication, advocacy and training effort. You will be asked for consent in your application.
Learners may also be invited to participate in research and evaluation by the Geneva Learning Foundation and its research partners. Participation in this research is completely voluntary, and you may stop taking part at any time. In cases where learners do not consent, no learner data will be collected. Participation or non-participation will have no effect on assessment of your performance in the course or your present or future relationship with the organizations involved.
