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Best Practices in Faculty Development: Supporting Aspiring and Emerging Faculty Leaders

This is a raw recording and will be updated as soon as possible with an edited version. Universities recognize the importance of developing faculty leaders, but many face a common challenge: How do you sustain the momentum of leadership programs once a cohort finishes—especially when leadership opportunities on campus are limited?    In the first session of our Best Practices in Faculty Development series, join guest speaker Margie Ferguson as she shares how she partnered with Academic Impressions to design and implement a leadership program that supports both new and established leaders at Indiana University, Indianapolis. You’ll gain insights into:    Join us live for the chance to ask questions and learn about how to strengthen faculty development—especially for aspiring faculty leaders.

Supporting Neurodiverse Employees

Grounded in lived experience, this course shows how small supervisory shifts—such as clarifying the “why,” agreeing on preferred communication, and normalizing support—unlock the strengths of neurodivergent staff. Leaders leave with scripts, tools, and resources to build trust, reduce stigma, and translate inclusion into everyday actions. 

Advanced Supervision Certificate Reflection Assignment

Thank you for participating in the Advanced Supervision Certificate program! We hope you learned a lot from the courses and your cohort experience!   This reflection assignment is the culmination of your experience and your only requirement for receiving your badge for the program. Please take some time to reflect on what you’ve learned and how you’ve been able to apply your takeaways to your role. We’ve offered some suggested questions to help you. Once you’ve written your reflection, please hit Submit to earn your badge.   Note: If you’d like to save your reflection, please copy and paste it into a separate document before hitting Submit. We are currently unable to easily recover data from submissions once submitted. 

Building Accountability on Your Team

In the realities of higher ed, accountability isn’t punishment—it’s clarity, trust, and integrity in action. This course helps supervisors to model personal accountability, communicate expectations that stick, and create psychologically safe teams where people will be able to notice, own, and fix issues quickly. It also covers generational differences in accountability.

Building a High Expectations/High Support Supervision Strategy 

Supervisors play a key role in helping their teams to live out the institution’s values through action. This course explores how to clarify expectations, align goals with purpose, and provide meaningful support through coaching, feedback, and performance management. Participants will leave with strategies to strengthen accountability, foster growth, and sustain motivation in challenging times. 

Self-Care as a Supervisor

This course helps higher ed supervisors to strengthen their leadership by practicing mindful self-care and boundary setting. Through guided reflection, participants will uncover what gets in their way, build supportive networks, and learn to lead with balance and intention. The course connects personal well-being to professional effectiveness—highlighting why self-care is essential to leading others well. 

Crafting Your Supervisory Philosophy

Before you can effectively lead others, you must first understand yourself. In this course, you’ll explore your personal leadership philosophy and how it connects to your supervisory approach, using Academic Impressions’ leadership framework as a guide. You’ll leave with a clear sense of your guiding principles and how to translate them into action with your team. 

A Feedback Model that Fuels Leadership for Department Chairs

As a Department Chair, you play a pivotal role in shaping a culture of growth, accountability, and trust within your units but delivering meaningful feedback can be challenging, especially when navigating complex peer relationships and institutional expectations. This course equips you with practical strategies to give and receive feedback confidently and effectively, moving beyond traditional annual evaluations to create ongoing, development-focused conversations. You’ll learn how to approach feedback with clarity, empathy, and professionalism, ensuring that it strengthens relationships rather than creating tension.  You’ll leave with actionable techniques for providing constructive, timely feedback in one-on-one discussions, written evaluations, or informal exchanges and for responding to feedback with humility and insight. By grounding these skills in the realities of higher education leadership, you’ll be ready to create a culture where learning, growth, and teamwork thrive even amidst institutional pressures.

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