More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but here is the agenda:  

Future Timeline 
The world of higher education has changed fundamentally over the last few years and will undoubtedly continue to change and transform in new and unexpected ways. In this interactive session, we’ll explore events, trends, and issues that could have significant impacts on higher ed over the next decade, and we’ll also explore practical strategies to build on and practice this anticipatory mindset.  

The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment 
We’ll introduce you to Academic Impressions’ leadership model, the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment. This assessment will help you understand your dominant leadership style and how it changes under stress. Knowing your leadership style will better equip you to make decisions that align with your strengths and weaknesses. Understanding how you lead during a stressful situation can also help you lead your team more effectively, make better decisions, and communicate more clearly. This will ultimately help you navigate the difficult situations more successfully and emerge a stronger leader.  

Using the Five Paths to Leadership® to Create Effective Collaboration and Meetings 
Leaders must have a collaborative stance to be effective, but collaboration isn’t simply bringing people together and hoping good things happen. In this session, we’ll explore specific principles and strategies that effective leaders follow to ensure all voices are heard and work gets done.  

The Five Paths to Leadership® 360 Assessment 
Each participant will complete a Five Paths to Leadership® 360 Assessment before coming to the program, and you’ll receive your results on-site. You’ll have a 30-minute coaching session with one of the facilitators to discuss your feedback, identify action steps you can take, and connect what you’ve learned to the topics of the workshop. Note: the individual coaching session times are listed in the schedule, but you will only have to be present for one 30-minute period within that time. You will sign up for your time at the workshop.  

Seven Practices for Creating High-Performing Teams 
Most teams don’t struggle because they lack the requisite talent, but because they don’t focus enough on their group dynamics and process—how they’ll work together. In this session, we’ll examine seven practices used by high-performing teams, including ways to ensure that everyone’s voice is included in the conversation, to improve decision making, and to support creative and innovative thinking. We’ll apply what we’ve learned in a team simulation to see how easy it is for teams to end up in dysfunction and how organically negative patterns can emerge.  

Power & Systems Simulation 
In this interactive session, you’ll participate in a simulation of a complex challenge that highlights the naturally occurring dynamics of organizational life. Often on the same day, we play multiple roles: leader, follower, or somewhere in the middle. Yet regardless of the roles we play, we’re all accountable for certain outcomes. In this session, you’ll gain insight into ways that you can contribute productively to solutions—and encourage others to do the same—no matter the role you’re playing.  

Leading Change through Collaboration 
The decentralized nature of higher education makes leading change in a way that aligns stakeholders across schools, colleges, and divisions especially complex. Further, efforts to align stakeholders often result in large, representative committees that are unlikely to produce truly novel or innovative ideas. And when new ideas are generated, they’re usually additive, further decreasing their chances of success. In this session, we’ll share proven practices that can help you affect meaningful change at your institution.  

Action Planning, Presentations, and Reflection Time 
Throughout the three days, we’ll have built-in time to distill your learning and reflect on how you can apply different strategies when you return to your institution. During our final session, you’ll design your action plan for moving forward, first individually, and then with a thought partner. This action plan will detail how you’ll use the lessons you’ve learned here to impact and further improve your leadership. You’ll also have the chance to present your plan to the full group to receive feedback. We’ll then share interactive and safe ways to receive feedback that you can apply easily in your own settings.