A promotion to a new position, especially when the promotion is internal, is often cause for celebration and proof that your hard work is paying off. However, promotions also come with a unique set of challenges, from building credibility in your new role to managing friendships. Join us for this one-hour webcast, where you will learn strategies for navigating personal and professional challenges that come with internal promotions. Our expert, Christopher Romano will discuss several practical considerations within three key themes. You will hear how to: Increase trust, earn respect, and establish credibility with your team members Access new insights and information essential to success in your new role Set healthy boundaries, both professionally and personally You will leave this online training feeling more confident to prepare for or begin a new leadership role.
Emotional labor is the process of regulating your emotions and putting others’ needs before your own during interactions with students, colleagues, and superiors in order to deliver high quality work. It can be difficult to detect – and even more challenging to manage – especially in environments that prioritize human connection, which includes most jobs in higher education. Expending high-level emotional labor over extended periods of time can lead to burn out, permanent exhaustion, and, at times, turnover. Join us for a 2.5-hour virtual training where you can start building a toolkit for scaling down your emotional labor and using it on your own terms. You will first explore how emotional labor manifests for you and what challenges you have managing it. Next, Dr. Gardner will offer four strategies to help you overcome those challenges so that you can start making emotional labor work FOR you, not against you. Lastly, you will brainstorm ways you can reduce your emotional effort so that you can leave this training feeling empowered to be your unapologetic self.
As a result of COVID-19, almost all the interactions you have with your students, alumni, colleagues, and donors are now through webcam in virtual meetings. Environmental factors such as poor lighting and background movement can become distractions and have implications on the level of engagement and potential for relationship building. Your body language and eye contact play an important role too as they can either facilitate meaningful communication or hinder it. Join us online for an interactive training where you will learn best practices for creating a professional and engaging persona during a video call. Our expert instructor will demonstrate simple tips and strategies for improving the quality of your physical surroundings and your presentation style during video calls. We will discuss how to: Place your laptop in the right position to maximize your lighting and appropriately frame yourself on screen Choose a background that does not offend or disturb others Reduce unnecessary movement to minimize distractions Maintain appropriate eye contact and body language that resonates with others online We have deliberately designed this training to go beyond the stock tips and strategies you’ll find online. You will have the opportunity to turn on your camera so that you can […]
Advanced Leadership Development in Higher Education September 30 – October 28, 2020 Important Links Welcome! Welcome to Advanced Leadership Development in Higher Education. We have designed this intensive online leadership development bootcamp to provide you with a comprehensive, robust, and practical training in four areas of leadership: personal, interpersonal, team, and systems. We look forward to meeting you all at the first of four sessions on Wednesday, September 30th from 1:00 – 4:00pm EST. Dates and Time Discovering Leadership and Self Awareness, Wed, Sept 30, 1:00 – 4:00 EST Achieving Agreements: Interpersonal Mastery, Wed, Oct 14, 1:00 – 4:00 EST Expanding Interpersonal Influence: Team Building and Leading Change, Wed, Oct 21, 1:00 – 4:00 EST Developing your Personal Leadership Development Plan, Wed, Oct 28, 1:00 – 4:00 EST 4 Important To-Dos before Session 1 1. Complete the 350 Assessment Process For assistance, contact molly@academicimpressions.com You will receive a separate email from Molly to sign up for your coaching session to debrief your 360 report (you will receive your 360 report the day before your coaching session) 2. Receive Empowered: Leadership Developing for Higher Education Please reach out to Molly at molly@academicimpressions.com if you haven’t received it yet 3. NEW! Complete the 5 Paths […]
Some senior leaders starting a new position may still imagine they will be granted an informal “honeymoon” period with the time and space to acclimate to their new responsibilities, conduct a “listening tour” before making any big decisions, and build relationships. The reality, however, is starkly different. In today’s world of higher education, senior leaders need to assess their new situation with speed and precision and immediately respond to acute challenges requiring quick and decisive attention. When transitioning to a new senior leadership position, it is all too easy to overlook key considerations related to both people and the process. Join us online for a unique two-part webcast series designed to help senior leaders address the demands of their new position. Our expert speakers will help you uncover crucial considerations in two important domains: people and processes. You will leave these webcasts feeling more confident to embark on your transition with intention and make quick, mindful, and sound decisions.
Faculty evaluations are one of the most challenging aspects of serving as a department chair. Emotions run high, performance rubrics aren’t always clear, and both parties may become defensive and react more than they listen. Still, these conversations don’t have to be difficult, and they don’t have to take a negative tone. They key is to develop an evaluation process that establishes clear goals, uses objective data to assess those goals, and allows you to treat performance-related issues before your annual meeting. Join us online to learn how to make your next faculty evaluation session easier and more productive by implementing four key steps: Goal Setting and Communication Using and Applying Evaluation Data Phrasing Comments Appropriately Delivering Feedback
As a frontline fundraiser, you need eleven attempts on average to reach a donor or prospect. While you might be comfortable with essential outreach duties like planning calls, securing appointments, and overcoming objections, how confident are you in planning outreach to one donor or prospect over time? Join us online to learn how to progress through multiple outreach attempts to support your fundraising goals. We will focus on how you can be politely persistent while strengthening ties. You will leave with ideas for how to: Revise email subject lines and voicemail messages Space multiple outreach attempts over time Reference previous outreach attempts
While every graduate student is faced with challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic, international students must navigate especially difficult circumstances as they cope with shifting visa regulations, travel restrictions, and an increased perception that they are not welcome in the United States. As international students represent a major portion of the graduate population, it is critical to identify methods to support and retain them in order to maintain the academic, financial, and cultural integrity of your institution. Join us and your peers online for a 1.5-hour brainstorming and discussion session to share strategies and ideas and to have the chance to benchmark and ask questions. You will actively participate in group discussions framed around the following aspects of supporting and retaining international graduate students this fall: Recruitment and yield enhancement strategies Academic support measures Research support strategies Other support considerations Please note that the focus of the discussion will be around academic, research, and other support strategies graduate enrollment managers are leveraging for their international graduate students. There will NOT be an in-depth focus on visa or regulatory issues.
Instructor Clarybel Peguero, Ed.D.Senior Director for Volunteer EngagementDuke Alumni Association, Duke University Parks SmithDirector of Strategic OperationsVirginia Commonwealth University Course Highlights 1hr 11m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 9/1/2020 Learning OutcomeAfter participating in this online training, you will be able to apply best practices in digital alumni volunteer recruitment, training, and engagement. OverviewAlumni volunteers are immensely valuable to institutions in both their service and giving power. They tend to give 10 times more than non-volunteers. However, COVID-19 has flipped the script on how we recruit and engage alumni volunteers. In-person offerings are no longer an option. Instead, we’ve been forced into the digital world and have had to adjust in order to remain successful. In this highly interactive virtual training, guided by our experts, you will share with your peers what you have learned since we’ve entered this new reality. Together we will identify emerging best practices in digital volunteer recruitment, training, and engagement, in order to better understand how to retain alumni volunteers. Who Should AttendThis program is specifically designed for alumni relations professionals who manage volunteers and are looking to learn and share best practices on how to recruit, train, and engage alumni volunteers in a virtual world. Agenda Landscape of Alumni Volunteer Engagement Most institution’s volunteer engagement approach has transformed overnight due to COVID-19, with shops needing to drastically change the way they manage recruitment, […]
With decreases projected in giving for fiscal year 2020-2021 due to COVID-19 and economic conditions, annual giving shops are facing turbulent months ahead. With additional cuts to budgets and staff, in addition to losses in revenue throughout higher education, being agile and nimble to create the best odds is key to a successful year in annual giving. Our expert speaker, Tyrell Warren-Burnett will provide you with a framework to help you identify when it’s time to pivot your strategy so that you can remain nimble in the face of uncertainty. You will have the chance to work in small groups and apply the framework to pinpoint the most critical threats to your shop, as well as how to best respond to those obsticles in the most agile way possible.
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In recent months, we have seen a monumental shift in how we elevate the voices and perspectives of underrepresented women. Responses to this movement have been historical: renaming buildings, taking a hard look at how systemic racism has impacted our colleagues, and expanding what anti-racism looks like in our day-to-day lives. This virtual training is designed to help you maintain this momentum at your institution. The training is divided into two sessions:
Virtual labs and remote lab kits will become a reality for many faculty and instructors in the fall. Implementing these can be key to ensuring quality online education and retaining students. However, you may be new to online formats and searching for resources on how to begin. You may be asking: What types of remote or virtual labs are available? What are the pros and cons of each? What is the process for implementing each type of lab into my courses? What are some pitfalls to look out for? Should I create them myself or use a vendor? What are some tips for working with vendors? Join us for a virtual training and dialogue on what you need to know before you begin, as well as tips and strategies for seamless implementation. Dr. Heather Taft from Colorado State University Global will use examples from the sciences to reveal the process of incorporating virtual labs, simulations, and lab kits into your courses. She will also offer individual consulting to those who have further questions and want to address the unique context of their own courses. Though the considerations in this workshop apply to course planning across various disciplines, we will dive […]
Practicing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Higher Education September 16 – 17, 2020 Take action to examine your knowledge base, unpack biases, and make your classroom and materials more inclusive. Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! DAY 1 DAY 2
Essential Leadership Skills for Academic Deans November 16 – 18, 2020 | Eastern Time Hone the leadership and administrative skills you need to become a successful academic dean. 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! DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 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:
Faculty and instructors are preparing to enter a changed classroom climate in the fall. The Black Lives Matter movement and the resulting public reckoning are causing many educators to examine the hegemonic values that have molded our classrooms over time. Too often, we are unaware of the limiting mindsets and structures that hold us back from meaningfully engaging marginalized and underrepresented students. Inclusive teaching is more than simply completing a checklist of best practices. This approach requires instructors to pair critical self-reflection with actions in the classroom. Join us for this highly interactive virtual training and dialogue to learn how to transform your teaching practices to better engage, support, and prepare your students without sacrificing rigor. Dr. China Jenkins from Texas Southern University will guide our discussion and share strategies for cultivating a pedagogy of inclusion.
Instructor Nancy Conrad, Esq.Chair of the Higher Education GroupWhite & Williams LLP Karen A. RobinsonSenior Advisor at the Equity Research andInnovation Center, Yale School of Medicine Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professorof Bioethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Course Highlights 1hr 37m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 8/5/2020 OverviewIf you’re a higher ed leader preparing to reopen campus in the fall, you are likely concerned with what the liability implications could be for your institution. What happens if a student gets sick—can the institution be held responsible? What happens if an employee of the institution does not follow COVID-19 protocols? How can you set proper expectations with students, parents, faculty, and staff about what they can expect for the fall 2020 semester? You’ll hear from three presenters about practical steps you can take at your own institution to help mitigate risk and promote compliance with safety procedures: Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Nancy Conrad, Esquire, Chair of the Higher Education Group at White & Williams LLP Karen Robinson, Senior Advisor at the Equity Research and Innovation Center at the Yale School of Medicine Who Should AttendMany institutions are preparing for a […]
Instructor Stephanie HinshawSenior Vice President, Academic AffairsAmerican College of Education Course Highlights 1hr 2m of video instruction Downloadable resources Course Details Released 09/2020 If you’ve ever worked in a toxic environment, you know that one of the biggest challenges is confronting the toxicity head-on through conversation. It can be difficult to navigate these conversations because they require you to be direct yet kind. You may feel intimidated because a superior is involved, and/or you may feel alone because your colleagues are scared to address the issue with you. Join us online for a two-hour training to practice the art of communicating through toxicity. Our expert instructor will provide tips and strategies for how to have a clear, authentic, and vulnerable conversation that can help you address toxicity in your workplace. You’ll also have the opportunity to role-play a difficult conversation with other participants, so you can practice applying these techniques before using them in a real-life context. You’ll walk away with feedback from others that will allow you to approach your next difficult conversation with greater confidence and ease. We Want to Hear From You! Please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey letting us know about […]
Your transition from faculty to department chair was likely challenging. Equally, your transition from chair to faculty will also present its own difficulties. In addition to losing valuable perks like the elevated title and administrative support, you will need to catch up with the most recent names, topics, and concepts in your field. You need a plan to relaunch your research and that plan needs to begin well before your exit interview with the dean. Join us online and learn how to execute a plan to return to research before you transition to a full-time faculty role. To help you in this process, our expert instructor will guide you through the following considerations: Planning your return to research early Becoming a student again in your field Saying “no” to colleagues to protect your time for research Setting goals and evaluating your progress You will leave this webcast feeling better prepared to plan out your transition back to the ranks of faculty and the world of research.
