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: 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.
This training is based on 2020 Title IX regulations and has been retired. Please visit our Title IX Trainings Page to view all current Title IX trainings. Whether you have the designation of “Official with Authority” (OWA), “Responsible Employee,” or “Mandatory Reporter Employee” under your institution’s Title IX policies and procedures, you have a responsibility to report to your Title IX Coordinator any alleged incidents of sexual harassment. This includes witnessed harassment as well as incidents shared with you by students, faculty, or staff. Failure to report as an OWA can trigger legal liability. This video course will prepare you to comply in your role as a mandatory reporter of sexual harassment. We will clarify your reporting duties under the new Title IX regulations, and we’ll roleplay a conversation in which a student discloses to her professor an alleged incident of harassment. You will leave with 6 strategies for ensuring safe and productive conversations when students and employees share details of sexual harassment with you.
We have partnered with Steve Riccio, one of Academic Impressions’ Success Coaches, to bring you this video course and help you take back control of your day-to-day schedule by empowering you to focus on the priorities that matter the most to you. Through a combination of self-reflection and skills-practice activities, you will transform the way you manage your time by learning how to:
Course Highlights 3h 30 m of video instruction (15 short videos) Downloadable resources Course Details Engage more alumni and donors and raise more money by assessing the overall health of your advancement shop. In this master class, you will learn about the 4 philanthropic vital signs and what they say about the health of your overall operation: Appreciation: Have you ever REALLY LISTENED to your alumni and donors? Knowing what your donors and prospects care about is key to engaging them. Affiliation: Have you brought back your most accomplished alumni? Help people lend their talent back to your institution to create an uptick in giving. Agency: Do your proposals depict in a compelling way what will happen as a result of a gift? Fewer people today want to give to an institution for the good it has already achieved. Rather, they’re inclined to give THROUGH an institution for the good it might achieve in the future. Accountability: Are you demonstrating financial health and using your resources appropriately? Show donors how you’re stewarding your resources to make them gravitate towards your institution again and again. You will then get suggestions for how to make incremental improvements to attract more donors with […]
This online program is an easy way to educate both new hires and existing staff (including academic leaders) with fundraising responsibilities on the important work of advancement. We worked with our top collaborators in each functional area across the shop to bring you a course that offers a high-level overview and provides connections to the donor pipeline and advancement’s goals. Topics covered in this program are:
