The Georgetown University Office of Advancement Leadership Program supports advancement senior leaders to develop skills to engage in values-based actions and decision making within our advancement context and when engaging with campus partners and valued constituents outside of the institution. From February to June 2025, this inaugural cohort of will engage in four in-person sessions designed to foster and strengthen OA’s identified leadership principles—act with integrity; courageous, trustworthy, and effective communication; accountability and resiliency; and care for the whole person. Between sessions, the cohort will have the opportunity to practice applying what is learned and explore additional leadership development through supplemental resources. Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between Georgetown and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. March 17-18, 2025 (Rescheduled from February 12-13, 2025) To prepare for this session: 1. If you have not already done so, please complete The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment – Academic Impressions This assessment sheds light on your strengths and potential blind spots by examining five key forms of intelligence including intellectual, emotional, intuitive, action, and reflective. The assessment will help you understand ways of achieving greater balance […]
As the enrollment cliff looms, institutional leaders must act with urgency and innovation. With over ten institutions in New York State closing since mid-2023, including The College of Saint Rose and Wells College, the message is clear: no institution is immune. Join us for a critical webcast exploring how senior leaders can strategically differentiate their institutions and prioritize retention through exceptional customer service. This session, designed specifically for presidents and senior leadership teams, will focus on practical strategies to enhance student belonging and retention by improving the overall student experience. We will discuss how leaders can harness the power of exceptional customer service to make students feel valued, supported, and engaged. From creating personalized connections to addressing micro-inconveniences on campus, these approaches will help transform student satisfaction into long-term loyalty. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain actionable insights and start building a more resilient future for your institution. Register now for free! Are you interested in diving deeper into how institutional leaders can help use service excellence to address the enrollment cliff? Read more from Heath Boice-Pardee in his recent article, Customer Service and Navigating the Enrollment Cliff: Strategic Insights for Institutional Leaders.
Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between IUI and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. January 31, 2025 (3:30pm-5:00pm ET) | Bringing Intention into Your Career Advancement Many academics approach the midcareer stage without a clear vision of what’s next in their career, and their decision-making about which roles and responsibilities to take on is often more opportunistic than intentional. This often leaves them ill-equipped for the demands of these roles or feeling a misalignment between how they spend their time and their professional aspirations. In this meeting, you will reflect on the roles you currently hold, their alignment with your core values, and the implications for identifying next steps in your career. Recommended Trainings: Now What? Navigating The Mid-Career Journey: This program will help you to design an intentional and strategic pathway through your mid-career by guiding you through reflection activities that help you take stock of where you are now, and where you want to go. Crafting Your Mid-Career and Beyond as Faculty: Learn more about the process of career crafting and the different types of crafting techniques (e.g., task crafting, relational crafting, cognitive […]
Come join us to learn about the immense power of artificial intelligence and how it can be harnessed to your school’s advantage. If you’re looking to make informed decisions about which academic programs to stop, start, or grow, this event is for you. Specifically, you’ll explore how artificial intelligence can help you to:
Due to limited pedagogical training and a lack of institutional focus on teaching as an iterative skill, faculty often replicate the teaching they experienced as students—which may not be the most effective approach. Empowering students to learn, demonstrate agency in the classroom, and legislate their own learning experiences requires reflection and the intentional development of values around teaching and learning. Relationships of Reciprocity: In Pursuit of Shared Teaching and Learning, a new publication from Academic Impressions and authored by Monica B. Glina, offers faculty ways to understand their teaching practice and values, to reflect on how they can incorporate new strategies into in-person, hybrid, or asynchronous teaching, and to evolve that practice. Join us for a webinar that will walk you through an exercise to help you to reflect on the values that inform your teaching. Glina will help you to explore how your professional values manifest themselves in your interactions with your students or co-learners, in the learning experiences you create, and in the way you view assessment. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn more about the interactive nature of the book and how you can use it to plan your upcoming semester.
Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between IUI and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. November 1, 2024 (3:30pm – 5:00pm ET) | Five Paths to Leadership℠ December 6, 2024 (3:30pm – 5:00pm ET) | The Balancing Acts of Academic Leadership Leadership requires the constant evaluation of a series of trade-offs. For instance, you may ask yourself questions like, “Do I lead as a faculty member or as a department head?” “Do I focus on the immediate or the long-term?” “Am I a colleague or a supervisor?” This session introduces the “balancing act” or “seesaw” as a framing device that will help you to navigate these inherent trade-offs by orienting your leadership choices and helping you to customize your choices to the situation, opportunity, and problem at hand. Pre-WorkBefore the session: Resources to Bring with You to the Session Make sure you have: After the session: The three Seesaw videos shown during the session can be re-visited as needed in the Table of Contents section above. Recommended Trainings: January 10, 2025 (3:30pm – 5:00pm ET) | Leadership Responsibilities You serve in a critical and visible […]
Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between IUI and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. October 8 and 9, 2024 | In-person Workshop The materials for this session can be found by clicking the “View Workshop Materials” button on the right. They include the agenda, slide decks, and outputs from the activities: Five Paths Meetings and the Appreciative Interview. November 19, 2024 (1:00pm – 2:30pm ET) | Report-out from October session During our previous workshop, you established a leadership commitment for yourself. In our upcoming session, you’ll do the following: No specific preparation is needed, nor do you need to bring anything specific to the training. Just come prepared to engage in conversation with your colleagues. Recommended Training: Leaders as Coaches: Improving Employee and Team Performance In this three-part webcast series, you’ll learn a variety of essential coaching techniques, all of which will help you motivate and build trust with your team members. Skills include the following: December 17, 2024 (1:00pm – 2:30pm ET) | Five Paths to Leadership℠ Continued Learning To prepare for this session: You’ve been introduced to the Five Paths to Leadership℠ […]
You may be familiar with Academic Impressions’ Five Paths to Leadership® Framework. Perhaps you’ve taken the self-assessment and used it to gain a greater awareness of your natural leadership style. The self-assessment is a useful tool that allows for reflection and self-discovery. But did you know that you can also get a customized 2-day intensive training that utilizes team’s composite scores? The benefit of such a training is that it allows you to examine how your team prefers to operate, which can reveal a lot about its group dynamics. For instance, the team profile may reveal how fast or slow the group is to make decisions, or how they handle stressful situations. The training can be invaluable for moving the team beyond those roadblocks. Join us online for a moderated discussion, and hear how three campus leaders—Dr. Schnavia Hatcher, Dr. Sebrena Jackson, and Ruth Pionke, MBA—used the multi-day tailored team development training to bring more cohesion to their teams. Each will share how facilitated team development work impacted their initiatives, and they’ll explain the results they are seeing as they relate to increased psychological safety, trust, and team performance. If you’re looking for ways to improve the way your team works together, this discussion is for you!
October 17-18, 2024 If you missed the in-person workshop or if you would just like to review, please watch this course: Understanding Your Five Paths to Leadership℠ Assessment Results – Academic Impressions November 19, 2024 | Debriefing Your CommitmentsThis session is designed as a follow-up to the October workshop and it will help the group continue to build momentum and community together. We’re confident this session will allow you to continue to: • Learn from each other, thus strengthening the community and support they receive from each other.• Build their coaching skills through practice. January 9, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Interpersonal Trust February 11, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | The Secret to Great Feedback March 11, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Time Management and Delegation April 15, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Preparing Your Leadership Philosophy Statement + Perfectionism May 19, 2025 | 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM | Full Day Workshop
Academic leaders today are facing some tough decisions: While it is commonly said that these challenges require data-driven decision making, what does that actually mean? And in a world where we are drowning in data, which are the right data points to track? Just as importantly, what are the right questions to ask that should guide those metrics? In this free webcast, join a conversation between UQ Solutions and the Provost at Carroll University, who have designed a blueprint for using data to optimize program portfolios for enrollment growth and financial sustainability. In this session, you will learn:
