Event Category: Online Bootcamp

Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment Facilitation Certification Online Training

Thousands of faculty and staff across North America have benefited from The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment because it’s an intuitive and powerful tool that helps them to better understand their natural leadership style and how it changes under stress. By growing their self-awareness, they become more adaptive and responsive leaders, which positions them well for current or future leadership roles, whether in the classroom, in committees, or at the department/unit level.   In addition, insights gained through the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment can be used to improve interpersonal and team dynamics. For instance, the Five Paths model can help you and your teams to:   Please note that certification enables you to facilitate Five Paths workshops for as many audiences as you’d like, at the organization of your current employment. Facilitation of the Five Paths to Leadership® workshops outside of your organization is expressly prohibited.  Register early—space is limited to 30 attendees to preserve an intimate and productive experience for all.  Prefer to do this facilitator training in person? Check out our in-person programs here.  Hear More about the Assessment Earn Your Certificate Earn a certificate after attending this event. Here’s the process: Attend this event. Start delivering workshops on your […]

Managing Difficult Faculty and Staff – A Bootcamp for Leaders

As a supervisor or leader, responding to difficult faculty or staff is some of the most stressful but rewarding work you can do—if you can do it right. Addressing difficult behavior in those who work for you can transform your team from closed off and avoidant to effective and collaborative. But how do you do this work?    Join us for a four-week, online bootcamp to learn how to effectively manage difficult behaviors on your team while still leading with empathy. This unique experience will allow you to:    Don’t miss out on the special opportunity to participate in a small-group feedback session, which is included in this program. You’ll meet with your instructor and a small group of other participants, so that you can workshop potential solutions you can use to manage your difficult colleague. These sessions are not recorded, which gives you time and space for talking confidentially and candidly about the situations that trouble you the most.  It can take years to perfect the art of managing difficult faculty or staff when you’re doing it on your own. Participate in this bootcamp, and jump-start the process to give yourself a leg up on the most taxing part of your […]

Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment Facilitation Certification Online Training

Become a certified practitioner of the Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment and bring your expertise to your institution to both support individual learners and facilitate workshops with your campus.  The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment is being used by thousands of faculty and staff in higher education across North America. The magic of the Five Paths lies not just in deeper self-awareness, but also in its ability to enable more effective interpersonal and team dynamics. The assessment is unique and valuable because: 

Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment Facilitation Certification Online Training

Become a certified practitioner of the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment and bring your expertise to your institution to both support individual learners and facilitate workshops with your campus.  The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment is being used by thousands of faculty and staff in higher education across North America. The magic of the Five Paths lies not just in deeper self-awareness, but also in its ability to enable more effective interpersonal and team dynamics. The assessment is unique and valuable because: 

Navigating Your Career Journey: An Online Course for Women Leaders in Higher Education

This six-week online program for women leaders is designed to help you manage conditions for career growth while gaining invaluable feedback on presenting and advocating for yourself both on paper and in person. This is a unique opportunity to learn from some of the best leaders in the industry in a supportive environment alongside other women leaders.  This program is intentionally designed to start with an opportunity to reflect on your leadership strengths through completion of the Five Paths to LeadershipSM Self-Assessment and a 360-degree review with feedback from your network, so that you can discover your authentic leadership style. You will identify the skill sets needed to navigate the current and future higher ed landscape, so that you can write a compelling career narrative that captures your strengths, goals, and values. You’ll incorporate these insights into your external-facing communications—such as your CV, résumé, and LinkedIn profile. Most importantly, you’ll leave with a tangible action plan for how to grow your career and the connections that support your goals—all of which will be informed with feedback from the cohort—a network we hope you’ll leverage and support far into the future. Highlights of the program include: 

Navigating Your Career Journey: An Online Course for Women Leaders in Higher Education

This six-week online program for women leaders is designed to help you manage conditions for career growth while gaining invaluable feedback on presenting and advocating for yourself both on paper and in person. This is a unique opportunity to learn from some of the best leaders in the industry in a supportive environment alongside other women leaders.  This program is intentionally designed to start with an opportunity to reflect on your leadership strengths through completion of the Five Paths to LeadershipSM Self-Assessment and a 360-degree review with feedback from your network, so that you can discover your authentic leadership style. You will identify the skill sets needed to navigate the current and future higher ed landscape, so that you can write a compelling career narrative that captures your strengths, goals, and values. You’ll incorporate these insights into your external-facing communications—such as your CV, résumé, and LinkedIn profile. Most importantly, you’ll leave with a tangible action plan for how to grow your career and the connections that support your goals—all of which will be informed with feedback from the cohort—a network we hope you’ll leverage and support far into the future. Highlights of the program include: 

Managing Difficult Faculty & Staff: A Bootcamp for Leaders

Join us online for a four-week bootcamp where you will learn how to intervene and correct the most problematic performances and behaviors within your team. Within the bootcamp, you will be introduced to the “EM & EM” model, which includes four increasingly authoritative steps intended to engage, set expectations for behavioral change, communicate consequences for non-compliance, and minimize the ill effects of bad behaviors on others. We will also address the unique aspects of higher education culture that complicate employee oversight, including tenure, union contracts, and ill-defined leadership structures. Further, we’ll examine the impact of intersectionality on both the giver and receiver of clear and direct messages, and we’ll also offer tools to mitigate the potential harmful effects of implicit and explicit bias.  This bootcamp will provide multiple opportunities for you to both apply this model to your unique context and practice these difficult conversations with other leaders experiencing similar challenges. You’ll be encouraged to bring your most difficult personnel scenarios to the group for practice and valuable feedback. Throughout the bootcamp, you’ll also develop an intervention plan specifically tailored to challenging people you’re managing, and it will also document how the EM & EM model can help you to […]

Leading as an Assistant/Associate Dean: An Online Bootcamp

Leading as an Assistant/Associate Dean can be difficult under the best of circumstances. You need to negotiate and balance the competing interests of multiple stakeholders both inside and outside your college. However, you may sometimes feel like your role lacks the necessary clarity, authority, and/or support to be most effective—then when you add in the complexities that have arisen in higher ed in the recent past, even the most seasoned leaders can find themselves tested.  Join us online for this valuable six-week leadership bootcamp designed specifically for Assistant and Associate Deans, that will help you to discover or reconnect with the most effective ways to lead in a variety of situations and circumstances. During the bootcamp, you will:    You will leave this bootcamp with an expanded network, a set of proven strategies for leading in a changing academic context, and, perhaps most importantly, with greater confidence in yourself as a leader. 

Public Speaking Bootcamp: A Hands-On Approach to Developing and Delivering Effective Communication 

Communication is a critical skill for leaders. As challenges facing higher education grow more complex and communication methods more diverse, the need to feel confident in your ability to speak publicly is essential.  This bootcamp, spanning four two-hour sessions, is led and facilitated by an experienced higher education leader with extensive expertise in teaching and engaging in public speaking. You will practice essential skills such as developing clear and effective content, how to understand and reduce public speaking anxiety, and how to confidently deliver your message.    Highlights of this program include:   A Highly Personalized Experience Your registration for this bootcamp includes four weekly small-group sessions with our expert faculty, as well as feedback and learning as a part of a cohort of learners. A hallmark of the Academic Impressions bootcamp experience, this focused attention will provide you with the space and time to identify and work toward your public speaking goals and to also identify next steps to keep you learning and growing beyond the four sessions. To preserve the intimate and interactive nature of this training, the bootcamp is limited to 12 participants. Register early to reserve your spot! You can also consider adding three success coaching sessions with […]

Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair

Leading as an academic Chair is difficult under the best of circumstances. You need to balance the competing interests of faculty and administration and stretch limited resources—all while maintaining your own scholarship and teaching loads. Add to this the uncertainty and complexity of leading through an ever-changing higher ed landscape, and it becomes clear that the current environment can test even the most seasoned leaders.  Join us online for this six-week leadership bootcamp designed specifically for department chairs to discover or reconnect with the most effective ways to lead in a variety of situations and circumstances. We’ll explore your leadership style and how it changes under stress, as well as how you can more effectively communicate and collaborate with colleagues, resolve conflict with faculty and staff, and grow your influence. You will leave this bootcamp with a set of proven strategies and tactics for leading in a changing academic context.   Optional Executive Coaching: For those who choose to add on our Executive Coaching package, you will receive 6 sessions of executive coaching and will be paired with one of our speakers, or with another executive coach, all with extensive experience in higher education as well as coaching credentials.