To see high rates of productivity, retention, and satisfaction in your early career faculty, you’ll need a well-defined mentoring program. How should you structure your program for success? What services should you provide, and how should you customize for your department, school, or campus? Join us online to rethink your current faculty mentoring program or start building an intentional mentoring program from scratch. You will learn from Dr. David Kiel, who has helped create mentoring programs at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in professional school units and Arts and Sciences departments. Drawing on his study of exemplary programs nationwide, he will share a comprehensive overview of effective mentoring programs – ones that resolve conflict and decrease faculty turnover.
While research about Millennials seems to suggest a focus on online giving platforms, direct mail and phone outreach are not dead. Your team needs to deliver consistent, integrated messages across multiple channels in order to cultivate this segment of young donors. Join us online to learn how to: Synthesize national research with your own young alumni giving trends to identify the best channels and messages for different solicitations Deploy messaging across all channels for a young alumni campaign Align stewardship responses with corresponding giving campaigns and channels
We want to develop resilience in our students, but this work is difficult because there are so many different definitions of resilience. Where should you start in designing targeted interventions?
With so much information to process, your brain is constantly creating shortcuts — “rules of thumb” or biases that help you make decisions more quickly. While these shortcuts are meant to help you simplify a complex world, they also pose problems. With these biases humming in the background, you run the risk of making poor decisions. Join us online to gain awareness about common cognitive biases that impact decision-making. You’ll learn and practice three methods that can help you make sound decisions when it matters most.
We already know that learning from failure can lead to great success. But seeing the lessons can be hard as we’re wired to avoid failure. We often perceive failure as a threat, so we run. What’s worse? We don’t even know we’re doing it. Join us online to learn how to foster a culture of learning from failure. You’ll learn the neuroscience behind why we avoid failure, and you’ll leave with discrete strategies for how to shift the team’s perspective when our natural tendencies make it hard, including how to: Ask powerful questions Share failures to avoid making the same mistakes Reward the process as much as the outcome
You’re striving for high team engagement because you know it means higher productivity, innovation, and retention. But how clear are you on the building blocks of this engagement? How can you develop yourself and others to cultivate the team engagement you’re seeking? Join us online for a survey of the key drivers that impact team engagement. You’ll learn about three attributes that you need to develop as a manager to ensure you are “showing up” for your team. Then you’ll learn five areas in which to focus your management efforts to foster engagement. You may be surprised by what’s most important!
In a world of pressing demands and overflowing inboxes, it’s easy to “think fast.” Many of us rush to solve our problems – choosing our first options. Or we may rely on “tried and true” methods we’ve used before – unaware of our blind spots. Even if we could create space for a different way of solving problems, we often tell ourselves we’re not creative enough. But all of us CAN be creative problem solvers. We simply need to practice the discipline. Join us online to start practicing a proven process in creative problem-solving. Our expert will introduce you to ten strategies that will help you unleash your creativity, including: Assumption Reversal Doodling Metaphorical Thinking Idea Selection Grid
If you’re on a search committee, you’re working hard to ensure a fair and equitable hiring process. In the midst of the search, you may feel like you’re ensuring fairness by subscribing to notions like: “I don’t see skin color.” “I’m colorblind.” “I treat all people the same.” While you intend these as positive statements, they can also cast a shadow over your search process — negating a candidate’s unique experiences as a person of color or implying that racial privilege no longer exists. Join us online to examine white privilege and how it can impact your search processes. We’ll reflect on our privileges together, and you’ll leave with tools to engage in uncomfortable conversations around race during the hiring process.
We know that academic restructuring happens for many reasons. Maybe you need to restructure because you’re faced with a crisis, such as budgetary cuts or enrollment declines. Or, you might see opportunities for growth and innovation due to changing market trends. In either case, it helps to get perspective from other leaders who have lead their organization through this work. Join us to learn more about Clarion University’s story of restructuring. You’ll learn about: The circumstances that caused the institution to restructure How institutional leaders approached the process What the leaders would do differently in hindsight You’ll leave with honest insights that you can consider for your own institution, college, or department, no matter where you are in the restructuring process.
Many of us live with constant self-talk that undermines our confidence, courage, and resilience. You may tell yourself things like: “I’m such an idiot.” “I never get it right.” “I’m just not smart enough.” “I’m way too slow at my work.” Sound familiar? Join us online to learn how you can start developing your alternative voice – your inner coach – in order to become a more effective leader. You’ll learn the neuroscience behind why we all doubt ourselves, and you’ll discover a new technique that will help you think and act in more constructive ways.
