More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but session descriptions of the two days are below:  

Why Leadership Matters in Advancement
How well do you understand the root causes of performance or retention issues in your shop? How often do you assess the costs of not investing in leadership development for your team? These are complex questions to answer, so we’ll begin by tapping into the collective knowledge of the room to discuss them, and you’ll begin thinking about how your shop approaches leadership development.

Exploring Multiple Models and Approaches to Leadership Development
Leaders and managers play a critical role in establishing trustworthy and transparent learning environments so that your talent can thrive, even in times of change. There are multiple ways to build the capacity of leaders in your shop, and your approach will vary depending on whether you’re just starting out or building on an established, cohort-based program. In this session, we’ll walk you through various decision points, including:

• Whom the program is meant to serve (aspiring supervisors, gift officers, other leaders).
• The level of the program (for new and aspiring leaders, mid-level, or advanced).
• The outcomes you hope to achieve.
• Where the program should live on campus.
• Whose support and sponsorship you will need (and how to get it).

Roadmaps
Throughout the two days, you’ll use a roadmap to synthesize your most important takeaways, so you can capture and document your next steps. We’ll provide time for you to reflect and get feedback as you begin to develop strategies specific to your campus.

Case Studies: Best Practices
Using real-life cases from Academic Impressions’ partner institutions, you’ll examine successful leadership development programs and explore how they originated, how program goals were established, and how you can adopt elements of the program that fit within your unit. These case studies will help you see how to actualize your roadmap at your institution.

The Five Paths to Leadership℠
It can be difficult to develop or grow leadership programs for others in your unit if you don’t first understand your own leadership tendencies and styles. In this session, you’ll better understand your leadership strengths and natural preferences related to solving problems, communicating, and collaborating when we debrief your Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment results. This self-assessment helps you to better leverage your strengths, mitigate potential weaknesses, and learn how to build strong interpersonal and team relationships—critical skills for leading effectively both formally and informally in teams.

Future Leadership Visioning
Through multiple activities, we’ll help you discuss and identify essential leadership skills. This eye to the future will help you build your roadmap and create the most impact in your shop.

Career Conversations: A Proven 4-Step Model
Supervisors and leaders often avoid having career conversations for many reasons, including a lack of opportunities for upward mobility, fear of raising expectations that can’t be met, or just not knowing how to have the discussions. Academic Impressions has developed a “4-Step Career Conversations Model” that you can easily share with leaders back on campus. We’ll cover both what the discussion should entail and how to have an effective career conversation with an employee.

Developing High-Performing Teams
We’ll spend time learning about the characteristics of high-performing teams and then take a deep dive into learning and applying strategies to support the development of these teams at your shop. We’ll explore various concepts that influence team culture such as psychological safety, trust, collaboration, and team cohesion.

Roadmap Presentations
Now that you have engaged over the two days, you’ll have the opportunity to share your current leadership roadmap ideas with the group for your peers and facilitators to review and offer feedback. You’ll develop a plan for how to pitch your ideas to other key decision-makers when you return to your institution.