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The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment

The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment Join the thousands of higher-ed leaders who have gained critical insights into their leadership using this tool. Upon completion of the assessment, your results will automatically be available in your account, and will be emailed to you from webmaster@academicimpressions.com. If you do not receive your results email, please check your spam folder. If you are having difficulty locating your results, please contact us at operations@academicimpressions.com with the name and email address you used to access the assessment for assistance. If you have previously accessed the The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment, even if you did not complete it, the course progress may indicate “100% complete”. If you click “Take the Assessment” you can verify whether or not you have actually taken the assessment: If you have not taken the assessment, you will see the assessment. If you have taken the assessment, you will see your scores. We encourage retaking the assessment no more than every few years, unless you have had a job change, and/or have been working on your Sage practices to access your different paths. If those circumstances apply, please contact our customer service team to request deletion of your current scores.  […]

Encore and Live Q&A: Conflict Management: A Practical Workshop for Leaders

Learn the strategies to help you effectively manage and respond to various conflicts within your department or institution. You will be introduced to practical tools that address conflict in its earliest stages before it becomes a formal dispute. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to resolving conflicts. That’s why our expert instructor will present numerous scenarios and discuss the use of framing, facilitation, and other dispute-resolution tools to help you: Improve and sustain a healthy working environment. Build rapport among colleagues. Increase faculty and staff morale.

Supervision Certificate Program On Demand Video Content

All too often in higher education, individuals move into a supervisory role without the necessary tools and skills to be successful. Particularly in today’s challenging environments, effective supervision is key to building an equally effective culture where each individual can contribute to team success.

Encore and Live Q&A: Setting up the Supervisory Relationship: Understanding and Adapting Your Supervisory Style

Encore and Live Q&A: Setting up the Supervisory Relationship: Understanding and Adapting Your Supervisory Style Build and deepen the supervisory relationship with new and existing staff members.  Login On: June 6, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET Unable to attend this live training? Stay registered to receive the recording of the training after the live event. JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education (Fall 2023)

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education October 19 – 20, 2023 Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! EVENT INFORMATION Check back soon for links! ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education (Summer 2023)

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education August 7 – 8, 2023 Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! EVENT INFORMATION Check back soon for links! ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education (Spring 2023)

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education April 10 – 11, 2023 Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! EVENT INFORMATION Check back soon for links! ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

Essential Skills for Supervisors

Essential Skills for Supervisors September 19 – October 24, 2023 Individual Sessions: September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023 Scroll down to view pre-work videos for sessions 2-5 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! Welcome to Essential Skills for Supervisors. We invite you to join our community of supervisors seeking to better understand the skills and self-awareness essential to your success. In preparation, mark your calendars for the following dates and times: Session 1 – 9/19 12:00-3:00 PM ET Session 2 – 9/26 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 3 – 10/3 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 4 – 10/10 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 5 – 10/17 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 6 – 10/24 12:00-2:00 PM ET Please note, during the week of October 24 you will have the opportunity to schedule a one-on-one coaching session with Dr. Therese Lask, facilitator of the bootcamp. To deepen your learning and create opportunities for collaboration with your peers in the program, before sessions 2, 3, 4, and 5 there will be an estimated one-hour block of time needed to review video content to prepare for each of those sessions. As we get closer to the start date, please be on […]

Developing a Principal Gifts Program that Supports Transformational Priorities

Principal gifts, defined differently at different institutions, can bring high-level success to your institutional priorities—especially those advocated by your president and academic leaders. By building out a disciplined principal gifts program, regardless of its current maturity, you can bring clarity to how your team and institutional stakeholders advance transformational ideas in partnership with your top donors. Challenges to this endeavor, however, can prevent teams from building out the program they want. Whether it’s lack of confidence speaking to and managing prospect relationships, managing donor fatigue, or having budget shortfalls with capital projects without donors in your pipeline to finish the job, developing an effective principal gifts program can help you prepare viable prospects who are poised and ready to give when the moment is right. Join us for this conversation on developing a disciplined principal gifts program, and preparing your institution for sustained success both now and into the future.

Leading Change From Where You Are: Strategies for Faculty

Many faculty feel overwhelmed by the overlapping crises in higher education, and that they have little agency for making change. But faculty can take action to make change right where they are by leveraging their strengths and preferences as leaders and building effective networks of colleagues with complementary abilities. By identifying opportunities for meaningful change through service and committees, campus and community engagements, and fieldwork and research, you can make the kind of difference that creates impact and moves culture change across the academy. This workshop is your first step in understanding how to best align your leadership strengths with opportunities for impact. In this virtual training, we will begin by examining leadership myths that often inhibit effective leadership by and for faculty. We will then explore how you as a faculty member can leverage your leadership strengths and preferences to harness your power in sustainable and collaborative ways for grassroots change. By the end of this workshop, you will have identified strategies, next steps, and an action plan to initiate the change you want to see.

Using Feedback to Build a Growth-Minded Work Environment

Learning to address conflict and manage difficult personalities as a leader or manager can be a stressful process. Once a situation has reached the point of conflict, it is often hard to manage it without emotion and move forward in a productive way. However, supervisors who work intentionally to create a growth-minded environment can engender a space where addressing conflict or confronting different opinions comes naturally to everyone involved. As such, you create a space where unhealthy conflict cannot grow and provides opportunities for those who have a habit of dissention to compromise or find a position better suited to their needs. Join us for a virtual training to learn how to manage performance and feedback in order to create a healthy working environment that fosters debate and encourages empathy and positive intentional communication. Our expert facilitator Dr. Cié Gee will walk you through how to address conflict or difficult behavior with clear and regular feedback early on in the process. You will learn how implementing regular feedback and honest conversations will lead to a more productive, psychologically safe environment. You will also take a look inward to learn how your leadership practices could be unconsciously nurturing an environment in […]

Encore: Strategies to Confidently Communicate with Students Experiencing Mental Health Challenges

Encore: Strategies to Confidently Communicate with Students Experiencing Mental Health Challenges Learn best practices for more effective interactions with students experiencing mental health issues, even if you’re not a counselor. Login On: June 7, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Encore: Navigate Challenging Conversations with Donors

Encore: Navigate Challenging Conversations with Donors Gain confidence in your ability to engage with donors around polarizing topics. Login On: July 11, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET Unable to attend this live training? Stay registered to receive the recording of the training after the live event. JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Encore and Q&A: Structuring Scholarships for Women and Students of Color in a Shifting Legal Landscape

When donors want to establish a scholarship for the two federally protected class groups that receive the most legal scrutiny–women and students of color–your advancement shop must navigate risk in a way that doesn’t scare away donors or distract from their intent. It’s necessary to understand the shifting legal landscape affecting scholarships for these protected class groups. Join us online to learn how to establish scholarships for women and students of color that abide by federal guidelines. In this training, you’ll learn how to conduct a thorough review process of your current gift agreements to help protect the reputation of your institution and donors against legal or political scrutiny. To apply these strategies to your context, you will have the opportunity to share your own examples of scholarships for women and students of color ahead of time. Some examples will be showcased during the training to highlight what language to include or exclude to mitigate risk best.

Identifying Big Ideas to Secure Transformational Gifts

The maxim big ideas lead to big gifts has defined fundraising, and—by extension—most of academia over the last 20 or more years. The acceptance of this adage is evident not only by where the most generous gifts to academia are being targeted but also by the rapid expansion of advancement organizations across higher education globally. Institutions are often eager for transformational gifts, but the creation of the big idea to secure one remains elusive. In this virtual training, we will define the big ideas and big gifts while taking a deep dive into the processes that can generate those ideas that attract big gifts while not compromising the core mission of the institution. You will learn frameworks for sourcing ideas—who in academic, volunteer, and administrative leadership needs to be involved in the big-idea generation process, approaches to gift solicitation, and a review of funding models that could create an incentive for major donors.

Privilege and Its Role in Enhancing Equity

All of us enjoy privilege on some level, which means that all of us have an opportunity to use our privilege in support of those who experience marginalization. But how does one establish credibility and acceptance as an ally when there are so many opportunities to get it wrong? This training aims to remove the stigma from accepting our own privilege while identifying the nuances between performative and authentic connection. This session will identify bothtraditional as well as less recognizable forms of privilege and provide the tools toengage, create space for, and include communities where wedo nothold membership.

Encore: Introducing Blended Gifts Into Donor Conversations

Encore: Introducing Blended Gifts Into Donor Conversations Learn how major gift officers can use blended gifts to bolster fundraising success and donor impact in an economic downturn. Login On: May 10, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING View original training. Not a member? Use Promo code: ____ to access the original training for free. Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Incorporating Trauma-Informed Practices into the Classroom

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study in the nineties taught us the prevalence of traumatic experience in society, as well as how trauma influences lifelong learning, health, and behavior. Researchers have found correlations between high ACEs scores (indicating more traumatic experience) and learning or behavior problems, lower grades, and a higher rate of academic failure. While mental health is not a new issue to higher education, the COVID-19 pandemic and other unprecedented events have significantly impacted college student mental health and stress levels. It has therefore become increasingly vital for faculty to understand the effects of trauma and stress on the minds and behaviors of students so that they can tailor their pedagogical approach to better meet their students’ needs. Join us for a virtual training where our expert speaker Heather Rist will walk you through the effect of trauma, how it presents in the classroom, and how to implement classroom management techniques to reduce the risk of re-traumatization. You will learn to identify the signs and symptoms of trauma, as well as how to calm someone experiencing heightened trauma symptoms and to then connect them with appropriate care and resources on campus.

Supporting and Retaining LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education: A Training for All Leaders

Higher education operates in a heteronormative and cisnormative culture that, left unchecked, inevitably leads to the systemic marginalization and underrepresentation of LGBTQ faculty and staff in leadership positions. While individual support and leadership advancement are important, they do not address the systemic issues that perpetuate these inequities. Join us to discuss practical steps that you and your institution can take to create a more inclusive and equitable environment to support LGBTQ faculty and staff.   

Creating Community While Navigating Heteronormative Culture: A Discussion for LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education

LGBTQ faculty and staff continue to lead in higher education—despite the ways in which heteronormative culture continues to perpetuate systemic marginalization and underrepresentation of LGBTQ leaders. In addition to a commitment to dismantling the heteronormative and cisnormative systems that create these inequities, it’s also vital to provide the space for current and future LGBTQ leaders to build community, celebrate accomplishments, explore strategies to navigate these challenges and succeed professionally. The goal of this session is not to suggest that LGBTQ leaders must lead a certain way to be successful—but rather to provide a space for LGBTQ leaders to build community and learn from one another as they navigate and lead within a heteronormative culture.