Since this program focuses on leadership effectiveness and not just on the nuts and bolts of running your college, we invite academic Deans of all experience levels to attend. If you’re looking to grow both your relationships and your influence across your college or institution, this conference is for you.

 

Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, breakfast, lunch, and access to the networking reception on Monday, breakfast and lunch on Tuesday, as well as refreshments and snacks throughout the conference.

8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. MT (local time in Denver, CO)

 

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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Understanding Your Leadership Approach: Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment
9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Self-awareness is at the heart of effective leadership. This session guides you through a leadership assessment called “The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment ,” which allows you to understand your strengths and natural tendencies when it comes to your leadership. The assessment can be helpful in deepening self-awareness as well as in helping you to adapt your style to meet the needs of others, including faculty, chairs and provosts.

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Morning Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

 

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Using the “Five Paths” to Create Effective Collaboration and Meetings
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Top-down leadership doesn’t work in the academy. Leaders must have a collaborative stance to be effective, but collaboration isn’t simply bringing people together and hoping that good things happen. In this session, we’ll explore the specific principles and strategies that effective leaders follow to ensure that all voices are heard and the work moves forward.

 

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Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Building Your Relational Capital: A Focus on Behavioral Game Theory
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Behavioral game theory applies the psychology of how and why people make strategic decisions when interacting with others, including group settings. Knowing the mental models that people use to navigate conflict and cooperation is critical in relationships. As a Dean, behavioral game theory can help you to anticipate what others will do and reveal important insights into relationship dynamics. In turn, it can also help you to communicate and make decisions that are both strategic and focused on long-term relationship building. In this session, we’ll explore some basic principles of behavioral game theory and discuss how you can use them in your everyday leadership practice.

 

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Afternoon Break
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

 

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Navigating Conflict: Getting to Win-Win Outcomes
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Resolving conflict within your unit can be tricky. Your unit’s leadership team, faculty, and staff often have competing interests. The issues may feel personal and high-stakes for all involved. It’s not always clear how to move forward in a way that allows all parties to feel heard and respected. Building upon the previous session, we’ll explore how behavioral game theory can help you to navigate such conflicts by focusing on win-win outcomes that help to build relationships over the long-term.

 

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Q&A and Day One Wrap-up
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Here, you will have the opportunity to ask any questions related to the topics covered on Day One.

 

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Networking Reception
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
This informal reception is your chance to decompress, have some refreshments on us, and expand your network of connections. Our programs are intentionally designed for smaller groups, so this is a great time to catch-up with attendees and speakers whom you may not have connected with yet.

 

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8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. MT (local time in Denver, CO)

 

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

 

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Recap of Day One’s Lessons Learned
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
We’ll begin day two with a quick reflection and recap of the key takeaways from the first day.

 

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Building High-Performing Teams
9:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Deans often struggle to build high-performing teams—not because they don’t have the requisite talent, but because they don’t focus enough on the team’s group dynamics and process—how they’ll work together. In this session, we’ll examine seven practices used by high-performing teams to help the team work collaboratively while also achieving desired outcomes. We’ll show you how to ensure that everyone’s voice is included in the conversation without letting negative voices dominate or derail, how to make effective decisions, how to support creative and innovative thinking, and more.

Note: A 15-minute break will be built into this section.

 

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Lunch
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Empowering Your Department Chairs: What They Want You to Know
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Your charge as Dean is to build a productive and happy work culture. But you can’t do that alone. Your department chairs play a vital role in realizing this goal, so it’s important that you empower them to do this work effectively. And it’s also important you create the conditions that allow them to be successful. In this session, we’ll highlight some of the common feedback and insights we’ve learned from working with thousands of department chairs. If you’re interested in learning what department chairs want, and you need to feel supported and empowered, this session is for you.

 

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Afternoon Break
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

 

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Bringing It All Together
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
As we bring the two-day program to a close, we’ll recap key insights gained during the conference, and you’ll identify specific actions you can apply to your everyday leadership choices when you return to campus.

 

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Evaluation & Closing Remarks
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

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Denver, CO | October 2 – 3, 2023

The training will be conducted in person at Academic Impressions’ Denver-based office at:
5299 DTC Blvd, Suite 1400, Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Nearby hotel suggestions:

Denver Marriott Tech Center – 4-star hotel
4900 S Syracuse St, Denver, CO 80237
303-779-1100
Distance from office: 0.9-1.2 miles, depending on route

A room rate of $179/night is available until September 8, 2023 if you use this link to book your room.

 

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Hyatt Place Denver Tech Center – 3-star hotel
8300 E Crescent Pkwy, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303-804-0700
Distance from office: 0.5 miles if driving, 0.3 miles if walking

Newly renovated! A room rate of $119/night is available until September 8, 2023 if you use this link to book your room. 

 

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Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center – 4-star hotel
7800 E Tufts Ave, Denver, CO 80237
303-779-1234
Distance from office: 1.1 miles

 

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