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The Key to a Chair’s Success: Situational Awareness of Your Department
A 3-Week Program
Join our program to receive bite-sized content for 3 weeks.
The next cohort starts on Monday.
Who Will Benefit
Academic leaders and faculty members often cite the importance of interpersonal skills when leading an academic unit, managing a research team, or functioning as a productive member of any team or unit in academia. However, emotional intelligence and self-awareness are less commonly mentioned as predictors of success among academic teams.
In this video course, department chairs and faculty will discover the connection between emotional intelligence and individual, team, and department results. Through Daniel Goleman’s four pillars of emotional intelligence, you will get ideas for how to:
- Manage graduate students, research teams, or labs more effectively
- Handle conflict and difficult personalities with more ease
- Mentor and manage graduate students
You will learn Daniel Goleman’s four pillars of emotional intelligence and informally assess your skill in each of these pillars. Once you have a greater awareness of how you “show up” for yourself and others, we’ll offer simple suggestions for how you can manage yourself and your relationships more productively.
Who Will Benefit
This course is designed for any/all department chairs who want to develop a greater awareness and understanding of their department and its strategic position within their institution. This course will be helpful for new chairs because it will help orient them to the environment in which chairs have to work and help them chart a path forward that sets them up for success. This video is equally valuable to experienced chairs who want to maximize their effectiveness.
How It Works
For three weeks, you will get weekly emails on Monday, which introduce a new lesson. Each lesson will include bite-sized videos that you can complete throughout the week. Videos will be 15 minutes or less each day. There are also complementary worksheets you can begin working on, which will help you reflect on and practice the concepts presented during the videos. If you complete all lessons within three weeks, you will have the chance to request a certificate. New cohorts start every Monday.
Don’t miss the opportunity to integrate professional development into your daily routine and establish a solid understanding of what effective leadership looks like for department chairs.
A new cohort starts every Monday.
Valued at $595. Free for members.
MEMBERS – Sign Up Now to Enroll in This Member Exclusive Program
Submit your information to enroll into our three-week program that will help you grow your situational awareness as department chair. For three weeks, you will get weekly emails on Monday, which introduce a new lesson. Each lesson will include bite-sized videos that you can complete throughout the week. Videos will be 15 minutes or less each day. There are also complementary worksheets you can complete to help you reflect on and practice the concepts presented during the videos. If you finish the curriculum within three weeks, you will have the chance to request a certificate of completion.
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Before You Start
01.
Make sure you’re logged in with your membership credentials.
02.
Start the 4-Day Foundational Course on this webpage or from one of your daily emails.
Recommended Schedule
Week 1 – The Importance of Assessing Your Field of Operations
Day 1
10 minutes
Watch:
Day 2
20 minutes
Watch:
Complete:
Worksheet 1
Day 3
30 minutes
Watch:
Complete:
Worksheet 2
Day 4
20 minutes
Watch:
Complete:
Worksheet 3
Week 2 – Conducting an Environmental Scan
Day 5
20 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 4. This worksheet is designed to be a living document. As you work through your environmental scan, update it as needed.
Day 6
30 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 5. This worksheet is designed to be a living document. As you work through your environmental scan, update it as needed.
Day 7
30 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 6. This worksheet is designed to be a living document. As you work through your environmental scan, update it as needed.
Day 8
30 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 7. This worksheet is designed to be a living document. As you work through your environmental scan, update it as needed.
Day 9
30 minutes
Take Action:
If you haven’t already done so, reach out to one of the actors you identified in Step 2 and invite them to an interview.
Continue to work on Worksheets 4 – 7 by doing some research about your department’s history and strategic position.
Week 3 – Using Your Environmental Scan
Day 10
30 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 8.
Day 11
20 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 9.
Day 12
30 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 10.
Day 13
20 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 11.
Day 14
30 minutes
Watch:
Begin working on Worksheet 12 and Worksheet 13.
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