Launching a Giving Day: Planning and Executing Bundle

Learn how a day of giving can encourage giving to your institution in a more compelling and urgent way. You will learn how to develop a day of giving from concept and launch to follow up. Session one will cover pre-planning, collaborating across campus, and executing a day of giving. Session two will cover gift processing a large influx of gifts and stewarding new and repeat donors to ensure retention. “This webcast offered practical and useful advice on implementing a day of giving. The presentation was clear, informative, and something that could be scaled to a number of institutions – large or small.” – Dayna Carpenter, Director of Annual Giving, UMBC

Private Business Use Compliance in
Higher Education

IRS regulations have made private business use (PBU) a concern across both public and 501(c)(3) campuses. In particular, the adoption of Schedule K reporting requirements to IRS Form 990 has emphasized the need for 501(c)(3) institutions to revisit IRS post- issuance tax compliance standards. For this reason, you need to quickly combine campus cooperation, proper documentation, and accurate calculation to ensure your institution is compliant. Join us for a two-part online training series that will cover PBU requirements for public and 501(c)(3) institutions. Session 1, will cover appropriate steps in working with campus partners to communicate and gather PBU information. Session 2, will work more exclusively with gathered data to explore PBU calculation and remediation. Included in both sessions will be various communication steps, PBU survey samples, calculation principles and red flags, and best practices in remedial action.

Donor Relations for Planned Giving: Improving Events and Impact Reporting

Learn new strategies and techniques to better engage and steward all segments of your planned giving donors. These two forty-five minute sessions will cover both events and impact reporting. Part 1: Stewardship Events and Donor Engagement Events are critical to your planned giving donor relations strategy. During this session, you will walk through new ideas for the more traditional planned giving events as well as non-traditional touchpoints that target younger planned giving donors. Part 2: Strategic Communications and Impact Reporting Impact reports and strategic communications are important methods for stewarding your planned giving donors. During this session, you will learn the specific messaging for legacy societies, scholarship reporting, and realized bequests that your planned giving donors and their families need to see. We will also explore other creative communication methods that your shop can use to steward your donors.

Managing Student Threats and Risk: Effective Policies and Practices

Campus tragedies involving students with psychological disabilities highlight the need for campuses to be prepared to anticipate and respond to student risk and threats. Identifying and responding to students who may pose a threat of harm to themselves or others forces administrators to walk a fine line between over- and under-response. In order to respond effectively, campus administrators must draw on the best practices from the student development, mental health, campus safety, and risk management fields while complying with legal and regulatory requirements. This webcast series tackles the toughest questions surrounding how you can support the best interest of students while mitigating risk for your institution through legally sound policies. Over the course of three sessions, our expert instructors will help you think through the ways you can develop a comprehensive and integrated risk management approach to policy development that provides a thorough framework to more accurately identify and respond to students of concern. While each session has a specific focus, the series will address: How applicable laws, regulations, and best practices can be reflected in your campus protocols. Policy intersections between behavioral intervention teams and other student conduct campus policies and practices. The intersection between mental health issues and […]

Coaching Students to Build an Entrepreneurial and Innovative Mindset Webcast Recording

Learn how your institution can begin coaching and teaching innovation to your students. During this training, we will discuss how to encourage an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset both inside and outside of the classroom. You will explore the five key components for encouraging this mindset in students and how both faculty and staff can help facilitate this shift in thinking.

The Six Dimensions of Implementing Strategic Plans Webcast Recording

Most strategic plans are aspirational and well-intentioned, but typically end up on a shelf collecting dust. Actual execution of the strategic plan is what separates a great institution from a good one. During this webinar, you will learn the six key dimensions of strategic plan implementation and offer practical suggestions for improving each: Alignment Decision making Organizational discipline Collaboration Culture Engagement and inclusion About the Research Academic Impressions and the Sanaghan Group embarked on a one-year effort to research and ultimately validate a Strategic Planning Implementation and Execution assessment that reveals an institution’s strengths and weaknesses related to implementation and execution. In this webinar, we’ll reveal the six key dimensions to execution and practical strategies that you can use today to turn your plans into actions.

10 Mistakes New Presidents Often Make Webcast Recording

Learn ten common mistakes new presidents make and how you can avoid them. Patrick Sanaghan will share what he has learned from interviewing and working with dozens of college and university presidents. Join us to learn these lessons and how you can ensure a smooth and successful leadership transition for your institution. Add a recording of this program to your training library to train future presidents on these important lessons.

Building Leadership Resilience in Higher Education Webcast Recording

Why do the same incidents paralyze some people but act as a springboard for others to change, grow, and learn? Setbacks, mistakes, and failures are inevitable—the key is resilience. Leaders must be able to navigate these situations and not just bounce back, but bounce forward. Join leadership expert, Pat Sanaghan, online to explore resilience and understand what you can do to build this critical skillset. We’ll share practical suggestions that dramatically improve your staying power as a leader.

Three Factors of Healthy Leadership in Higher Education Webcast Recording

Leading is not for the faint of heart—it is a challenging and complex endeavor, and there is no roadmap. Too often, the volume of problems, personal insecurities, high pressure, and ego can produce leaders that can be toxic, likely to burn out, and ultimately take their institutions backwards, not forwards. In this webcast, we’ll review a better and more sustainable model for leadership—a model that is more thoughtful, balanced, and holistic, and actually drives better results for the organization. You will leave with specific steps that you can take to move toward a more fulfilling leadership style. What is a Healthy Leader? Healthy leadership is a mindset and a lifestyle. This doesn’t necessarily mean reducing stress and keeping better physical care of yourself, though those aspects are important. More than anything it means committing to being a mature human being in all aspects of your tasks, relationships, and character.

Faculty Civility and Academic Freedom: Protecting the Workplace while Preserving Academic Culture

Addressing issues of civility among faculty can be a thorny issue when you consider the scope of free speech, academic freedom, and how social media blurs the lines between the personal and professional context. Join us online for an in-depth examination of this increasingly important issue, including practical steps academic leaders can take to improve civility on campus and address issues as they arise.