We’ve all suffered through bad meetings. Given how much time we spend with our colleagues, this pain has real consequences for our teams and institutions. The stock advice around “making an agenda” and “drafting action items” will only do so much to make meetings more effective. Our Meeting Success Kit will help your organization start focusing on the less obvious components of meetings that can significantly shift how people engage and how they build agreement. As higher education continues to face significant and fundamental challenges, you must be able to convene and engage diverse stakeholders on key topics in order to meet your goals.
Join us for a webcast that will showcase a successful model for streamlining the institutional scholarship administration process through centralization. Mark Walter from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will discuss: The challenges the institution previously faced with scholarship administration How they entered into conversations about changing the model How they conducted a subsequent audit of their current processes: application, review, and awarding The decision to create an entirely new central scholarship office and adopt scholarship administration software You will learn about critical pieces of the centralization process, as well as pitfalls to avoid if you are considering a centralized scholarship administration process at your own college or university.
Donor retention rates in higher education tend to be some of the lowest across all industries. As a donor relations professional, donor retention is likely one of your metrics. But, do you fully understand how you can better influence this important goal? Learn how you can better understand donors’ behavior and tailor your approach to retain more of them. You will leave this example-based training with new insights on: How data can help you develop an understanding of donor behavior What strategies you can employ to increase your donor retention rate Why shifting your culture from just dollars raised and alumni participation towards retention can lead to long-term success
Supervision is much more than informal meetings and annual performance reviews. This online training examines a supervisory model that can help you develop the capacity of your employees. You will learn: Keys to being an effective supervisor Questions to use in creating a meaningful supervisory relationship Methods for establishing trust An effective supervisory structure (when to meet and what to cover) How to discuss areas for learning and improvement Join us online to learn how effective supervision can improve your team’s performance and results.
Microaggressions don’t necessarily reflect bad intent but can still be very damaging. Therefore, it is important to proactively identify and address microaggressions within your department and your institution before they become a problem. Properly spotting and removing these challenging statements and actions can improve your campus climate while reducing absenteeism, turnover, and employee complaints. This online training focuses on how you can proactively identify and remove microaggressions from your institution. In our first session, we will work toward understanding different types of microaggressions that are common in higher education and understanding what fuels these behaviors. During our second session, you will be introduced to a framework for removing implicit bias and microaggressions from your environment.
Giving feedback to someone in a way that is both direct and respectful is a challenging thing to do, even for the most seasoned managers. Most of us figure it out the hard way by fumbling, softening what we meant to say, or confusing the message. The challenge for managers is to convey your message clearly with backbone as well as heart. In this hour-long webinar, a certified executive coach and leadership development expert Mary McGuinness will provide simple but proven techniques, along with sample language, to help you become more confident and skilled at providing feedback directly.
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:
Join us for a webcast to help you better identify, approach, and engage industry partners in the program development process for competency-based education (CBE). David Schejbal, Dean of Continuing Education, Outreach, and Online Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, will share strategies for collaborating with industry to develop both full-length CBE offerings and micro-credentials. Throughout the course of the webcast, we will explore questions like: How to identify and approach potential industry partners with which to collaborate? Who from the institutional side should be involved, and what are some common structures or models for these collaborations? How can you effectively translate insights from industry (the world of practice) into meaningful insights about competencies and skills on the academic side?
Learn how you can achieve a better budgetary outcome by keeping your key stakeholders engaged and accountable throughout the year. We will highlight how Oklahoma Christian University has taken an intentional approach to reporting, communication, and technology to better engage their campus community. This webinar will provide you with a better understanding of how you can apply these strategies to your own budget process.
Join us for two case study-based webcasts that will give you new ideas and help you start thinking outside the box when it comes to your campus visit experience. Each program will showcase the ways in which one institution is innovating when it comes to one aspect of their campus visit experience: Session #1 will highlight the innovative approach that Furman University takes to its accepted student days; Session #2 will discuss the changes that the University of Puget Sound made to shake up the structure of their daily campus visit for prospective students and families.
