Learn how utilizing coaching methods can enable you to more effectively supervise your direct reports. Throughout the training we will cover four common situations where coaching can be useful and explore five coaching skills in action. Whether delivering difficult feedback or encouraging direct reports to take the next step in their career, coaching can be a helpful tool for supervisors. Included with your registration is a worksheet to help you assess your proficiency with the coaching skills we talk about and apply new ideas to your everyday work.
Rapid advances in technology may render as much as half of our current workforce replaceable by automation in the next 10 years. With so much change on the horizon, how can we prepare young people for jobs, problems, and technology we don’t yet understand? Join us online for a provocative discussion on these issues with Future of Work consultant, Heather McGowan, and UMass Dartmouth Chancellor, Robert E Johnson. This 60-minute broadcast will encourage your team to think about education differently—not as a simple transfer of knowledge and skills that ends with a degree, but as a chance to instill a mindset of lifelong learning that will help our students futureproof themselves from constant change.
Effective strategic enrollment management (SEM) requires participation and buy-in from a variety of stakeholders around campus. But one of the most important—the academic side of the house—is often the most challenging to collaborate with when it comes to SEM. Join us for a webcast that will equip you with strategies for opening the conversation about SEM, building consensus, and gaining buy-in from deans and faculty. Our instructors have had experience working on both the academic and the enrollment management sides of the house, so they are uniquely positioned to offer strategies for breaking down barriers.
Gain a better understanding of the unique characteristics of different generations, what motivates them, and what potential perspectives they bring. Throughout this online training, we will focus on arming you with the information and tools you need to manage a multigenerational team. You will leave with a greater ability to form a cohesive working environment among your team. What You Will Get An 75-minute recording you can use to train your team at any time A guide to assist you when having conversations with your team An action planning guide to help you address challenges with your team A group reflection activity to use following the training
Learn how front-line student services staff can use a risk management template to evaluate their everyday work. Throughout this training we will walk through common scenarios and discuss how you can utilize the risk management template to protect both your institution and your students. Why do We Need To Pay Attention to Risk Management? The average student affairs professional may not assess risk when doing key job functions like running a student activity event, having a student conduct meeting, working in campus recreation, or running an athletic event. Even high profile events or protests may not get the rightful attention from frontline student affairs staff. While you don’t need to expect everyone to become a risk manager, there are simple things all of these professionals can do to account for risk.
Establishing a successful weekly writing practice can dramatically improve your productivity. However, there are lots of pitfalls that stand between faculty members and actually accomplishing their writing and productivity goals. Join Laura Plummer, Director of the Scholarly Writing Program at Indiana University, as she outlines ways to overcome these obstacles. Because productive writing depends on a balance of hard and soft skills, we will cover both. You’ll learn about software tools like Scrivener and Mendeley, and you’ll also leave with techniques to help you build focus, space, accountability, and rewards into your practice.
Learn how your institution can help students build professional mindsets. In this webcast, you will learn how to focus on four key skills in your interactions with students. We have designed this event with a broader audience in mind. This webcast is applicable to anyone who works directly with students and would like to incorporate skill-building that will help students succeed both in the classroom and in future work environments.
Learn five critical components that your student affairs department needs in order to retain entry-level staff. This training series includes over three hours of content that you can use to actively address the costly retention issues that many student affairs operations face. Separated into five distinct modules, this series focuses on how your institution can work with entry-level staff to better: Onboard and socialize Set strong expectations Create effective training plans Engage in synergistic supervision Create intentional professional development plans Each of the five trainings comes with its own set of additional resources for you to use in your practice. These resources include: questionnaires for assessment, scholarly articles, videos to further explain concepts, websites, and many template documents.
Making the transition from faculty to academic leader can be both difficult and stressful. During this online training we will focus on the skills needed for faculty to successfully transition to an academic leadership role. We will explore: Skills faculty need now to prepare them for their next role Transition challenges and ways to combat them Internal and external resources faculty can use After participating in this training, faculty members will better understand how to build the skills needed to be a successful academic leader. We will also provide a checklist to help you better assess whether academic leadership is a good fit for faculty members.
After an institutional brand is in place, higher ed marketers often feel the need to play the role of “brand police” rather than taking meaningful steps to move the needle on brand culture and adoption. Join us for a webcast that will help you move more strategically toward a meaningful brand culture at your institution. Our expert instructor will present a three-tiered framework that you can apply to help you build a stronger brand culture at your institution, and will provide examples of the kinds of tools, templates, ongoing educational strategies, and assessment mechanisms her institution is using to strengthen brand culture.
