Leading High Performing and Inclusive Teams

Denver, CO | May 29, 2024 8:30 am MT - May 30, 2024 1:30 pm MT

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This training will not be available asynchronously.

Leading High Performing and Inclusive Teams

Denver, CO | May 29, 2024 8:30 am MT - May 30, 2024 1:30 pm MT

Explore a toolkit of ways you and your team can enhance trust and move forward together.

Overview

In the aftermath of the “Great Resignation,” maintaining and supporting intact teams has become more difficult than ever before. Furthermore, dwindling budgets and decreased confidence about the viability of campuses of all sizes can make the willingness and ability of campus leaders to continue to motivate and manage teams feel daunting.

This conference is designed to provide leaders with a toolkit they can use with their teams to enhance psychological safety and improve outcomes among teams at all levels. With a focus on building trust, enhancing communication, understanding intersectionality and utilizing Academic Impressions’ Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment, participants will have the opportunity to:

Identify aspirational goals for your team.
Create a plan for meaningful connection among those you lead.
Assess psychological safety and develop skills to maintain honesty and vulnerability among colleagues.
Strengthen your understanding of effective leadership and effective followership.
Build a network of colleagues to help you navigate the complexity of managing teams with disparate personalities, motivations, and experience levels.

Who should attend?

Attend with your team for a discount!

This conference is ideal for professionals who currently lead and/or participate as members of a team. If you work alongside other unit leaders and share leadership responsibilities, consider attending together so that all those involved in leading the team can benefit from this content. As such, Deans are encouraged to bring their Associate Deans, Provosts are encouraged to attend with their leadership team, and Presidents are encouraged to attend with their cabinets. Multiple members of an intact team attending together will experience the greatest results.

Register 3 or more people and save!

Members: $1,667 per registration (3 or more)
Non-members: $1,833 per registration (3 or more)

Agenda

Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, breakfast, lunch, and access to the networking reception on Wednesday, breakfast and lunch on Thursday, as well as refreshments and snacks throughout the conference.
Day 1 – Wednesday, May 29, 2024
8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. MT (Local time in Denver, CO)

Continental Breakfast (included in registration fee)
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
In this opening session, you will have the opportunity to examine and analyze the results from your Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment to identify your unique leadership strengths under normal circumstances and under stress.

Break
11:00 – 11:15 a.m.

Defining Leadership
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. Leadership is contextual and situational, and ultimately the most successful approach is that which is authentic to the leader. In this session, we’ll:

Explore the differences between management and leadership.
Identify the qualities, skills, and actions embraced by effective leaders.
Create personalized definitions of leadership that are unique to each individual.

Lunch Break (included in registration fee)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Developing Trust Across Difference
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Whether you’re the team leader or a teammate to others, you likely encounter people on your team who verbalize their frustrations. This session will give you an opportunity to reflect on the messages you have learned over time about how to engage in conversations about personal frustrations at work. In this session, you will practice intentional engagement versus moving past uncomfortable scenarios, so that you can arrive at a place where you are more willing to actively take part in solution-oriented conversations—even when they are uncomfortable.

Break
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.

What is Your Commitment? Leading Inclusively on Purpose
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Accountability partners can make a huge difference. During this time, you will have the opportunity to connect in small groups and brainstorm actionable ways for you to begin to exhibit a commitment to the practice, learning, and reflection needed to be intentional in your everyday interactions with your colleagues and team.

Emotional Table-Setting
3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
This session will guide participants in the self-reflective and meaningful process of identifying personal boundaries for healthy dialogue when the stakes are high and the team capacity for discomfort is low.

Day 1 Wrap-Up
4:45 – 5:00 p.m.
As we conclude our first day together, you will have the space to ask questions of the speakers and connect with other attendees around shared challenges and opportunities.

Networking Reception (included in registration fee)
5:00 – 6:00 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 with whom you may not have connected yet.

Day 2 – Thursday, May 30, 2024
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. MT (Local time in Denver, CO)
Continental Breakfast (included in registration fee)
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. ET

Day 2 Reflect & Reset of Day One
9:00 – 9:15 a.m.

High Performing Teams & Psychological Safety
9:15 –10:30 a.m.
In this session we’ll examine seven practices used by high-performing teams, including ways to ensure that everyone’s voice is included in the conversation and to examine how they make decisions, how they support creative and innovative thinking, and more.

Break
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Difficult Conversations are Necessary… Not Unkind
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Identify and practice new communication strategies for overcoming subconscious messages that may influence your engagement in conversations that you deem uncomfortable. You’ll receive tools to help you to continuously uncover and deepen your understanding of personal conversation blockages.

Action Planning/End-of-Conference Deliverables
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
As we close the conference, we’ll identify specific items that we intend for you to practice both individually and collectively as a group, and we’ll identify specific commitments for the team to continue the work in the future.

Closing Activity and Farewell Lunch (included in registration fee)
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
As we conclude our final day together, you will have the space over lunch to ask questions of the speakers and connect with other attendees around shared challenges and opportunities.

Save on In-Person Conference Registrations

Attend any three in-person conferences for $5,000 for Members ($5,500 for Non-Members) – or $1,667 dollars per registration for Members ($1,833 for Non-Members) – with a Conference 3-Pack. There’s no one way to use your 3-Pack!