Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, including the networking reception. Additionally, your registration fee includes breakfast, lunch and snacks/refreshments on both days.

8:30 – 5:00 p.m. Eastern

 

Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

 

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Welcome and Introductions 
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.

 

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Responding to Burnout through Intentional Relationship Building
9:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Over the last several years, we've all had to navigate a continual influx of emotionally charged situations paired with increasing workloads. It's no wonder that a majority of faculty and staff say they are burned out. In this opening session, your instructor will begin by addressing ways to engage, re-engage, and inspire your leadership team, faculty, and staff through the art of intentional relationship-building. You will get tips and strategies for how to:

• Engage in meaningful conversations that are both empathetic and oriented toward re-engaging your team in the mission of the organization.
• Provide feedback that coaches your team toward achieving realistic goals.
• Develop a "leadership bench" for succession planning.

 

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Morning Break
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

 

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Group Activity: Responding to Burnout through Intentional Relationship Building
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
To build on the previous session, you will work together in small groups to discuss those past strategies you have used that have worked, as well as those that have not, to re-engage faculty, staff and leadership. As a group, you will explore which new feedback, goal-setting, and conversation strategies you want to try with your team, and you’ll also get feedback and perspective from other deans on how to do so. This session is designed to help you gain greater clarity on ways to identify and execute engagement options as well as on defining who could be part of a future leadership team.

 

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Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Fostering a Culture of Collaboration and Belonging
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
As a dean, you collaborate with and need to create a sense of belonging with people at all levels of the organization. However, collaboration and belonging can mean different things to different stakeholders. In this session, you’ll learn about the instructor’s approach to “deep collaboration” and, alongside your peers, you’ll discuss practical tips and examples for how you can enable collaboration and foster belonging at all levels. Specifically, you’ll participate in group activities that allow you to discuss, brainstorm, and practice effective strategies for collaboration for each of the following groups:

1. Faculty
2. Those you directly manage and lead (chairs, directors, associate deans)
3. Those who manage and lead you (the provost)
4. Your peers (other deans across the organization)

Note: A break will be built into this afternoon section.

 

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Q&A, Day One Wrap-up & Networking Reception
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
You will have the opportunity to ask any questions related to the topics covered on day one before we transition into our informal reception, which will give you a chance to decompress, have a drink and appetizer with us, and expand your network of connections.

 

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8:30 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern

 

Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

 

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Group Share-Out: What is One New Insight You Gained from Yesterday’s Conversations?
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
We encourage you to sit with different colleagues as we kick off day two of this conference. After introductions, please share one new insight that you learned yesterday and how you hope to apply or scale it to your own institution.

 

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Taking Meaningful Risks That Position Your College for Future Success
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Growing your college and positioning it for future success often requires you to take risks to leverage opportunities and expand into new horizons. In the face of resource constraints, it is not uncommon to experience a hesitation to take risks or even to know how to evaluate the potential pay-off. Additionally, in a risk-averse culture, your decisions might receive lackluster enthusiasm and buy-in. In this session, we’ll discuss how to overcome such barriers by answering the following questions:

• How do you evaluate and take risks that will lead to sustainable growth while also supporting your institutional mission?
• How do you assess, ask for and/or allocate the resources you need to translate the risk into reward?
• How do you communicate and partner with others who may be risk averse?

 

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Morning Break
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

 

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Group Activity: Taking Meaningful Risks That Position Your College for Future Success
11:00 – 12:00 p.m.
To build upon the previous section, you’ll work together in small groups to discuss one of the most exciting and perhaps riskiest opportunities available to your college. As a group, you’ll explore what makes you poised for leveraging this opportunity—as well as what holds you back. By getting feedback and perspective from other deans, we hope you will walk away with greater focus on how to approach the opportunities available to you and your college.

 

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Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Solutions Clinic: Getting Advice from Your Peers to Help You Tackle Your Toughest Challenges
1:00 – 3:15 p.m.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach or magic bullet for how to manage burnout, foster a culture of belonging, and lead your college into the future. Because of this, there’s tremendous value in tapping into the collective knowledge of your dean network and learning how they approach this work. This session will give you the opportunity to do just that. As a group, you’ll identify some of the biggest challenges you’re facing as it relates to the themes of the conference, then, alongside your peers, you’ll dialogue and brainstorm possible solutions, tips and strategies for how to mitigate or resolve the specific challenges you’re facing.

Note: A 15-minute break is built into this session.

 

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Bringing It All Together: Identifying Short-Term Goals
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.
You’ll have an opportunity to reflect on and document what you’ve learned and how you can apply those lessons learned to your everyday leadership practice.

 

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Final Q&A, Evaluation & Closing Remarks
3:30 – 4:00 p.m.