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Effective Meeting Design Using the Five Paths to Leadership®

Take this opportunity to rethink how your meetings are designed by exploring the hidden expectations and preferences people bring to the table. Using the Five Paths to Leadership® model as a framework, you’ll reflect on your current meeting practices, collaborate in small groups to design your “ideal meeting,” and share insights that highlight different leadership strengths and needs. Together, we’ll surface practical ways to make your meetings more inclusive, engaging, and productive.

Is Your Campus Ready for the Influx?

Posted on by Sarah Adams

A Faster Way to Prep Your Team for the Start of the Year For years in student affairs, I managed move-in in residence life, and I can tell you exactly what the week feels like from the inside: a line of cars that doesn’t end, a student in tears because her roommate assignment changed overnight, a parent who wants to speak to someone in charge right now, and a staff of RAs running on four hours of sleep and their own first-week nerves. Every one of those moments is what our Service Excellence Toolkit calls a “moment of truth,” a chance to create magic or leave someone with an impression that sticks for the rest of the year. You don’t get many chances to redo a first impression, and move-in week hands you hundreds of them, all at once. Here’s what I wish someone had told me back then: what your team needs in that week isn’t a month of training. It’s the right five minutes at the right moment. When I was in the role, I didn’t know a resource like this existed. Academic Impressions offers a full customer service certification, and it’s genuinely good: it gives staff a […]

Creating Equitable and Inclusive Meetings

Your personal identity likely shapes the meetings you lead. In order to foster open spaces where people can test ideas and practice inclusion, you should reflect on how your identity impacts your meetings. Join us for this online training to engage in self-reflection and to begin practicing communication skills that will positively impact group dynamics. You will hone your skills around listening, modeling, and question-asking. You’ll also receive guidance on how to choose an accountability partner who will help you preserve a culturally inclusive meeting environment. The information provided in this training can be applied to in-person and virtual meetings alike.

Meeting the Challenge of Program Prioritization

Posted on by Kenneth Soldink

Report: May 2015. In this report, you’ll see a national snapshot of program prioritization efforts based on a recent survey of over 100 institutional leaders — plus critical lessons learned to aid you in your own efforts, including: Read the report. See Other Topics in Institutional & Academic Planning

Using the Five Paths to Leadership® With Your Team

Posted on by Sarah Adams

The Five Paths to Leadership® is a proven model that helps individuals and teams understand their leadership strengths, and how to apply them more effectively. This assessment is free with your Academic Impressions membership. Unlike other leadership models that assign you a single style, Five Paths measures your ease of access to five intuitive leadership styles: Critical Thinker, Relator, Visionary, Warrior, and Sage, and shows how your style shifts under stress. You may be familiar with the Five Paths to Leadership® on an individual level. However, the tool becomes much more powerful when used with teams. When an entire team gains an understanding of their results, you can strengthen collaboration, lead with greater confidence, and help your teams thrive in a changing world. 1 Complete the assessment The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment is included free with your Academic Impressions membership, or available at $50 per license. To begin using the model with your team, you and all members of your team should complete the assessment. Log in to your account to access the assessment. Complete the assessment 2 Attend an Understanding Your Results session with your team We have upcoming sessions where a certified Five Paths to Leadership® facilitator […]

Reinvigorate Your Meetings and Workshops: A Training for Deans

Deans across higher education are tackling some of the biggest challenges yet.  Take, for instance, declining student enrollments (and the reduced budgets that follow) and the low levels of faculty morale and engagement (which, in turn, lead to high turnover). Let’s face it—these are big problems that take a village to solve. And yet, you probably feel like the responsibility to remedy these challenges falls largely on your shoulders. So how can you convene others across your college to become part of the village that can help you to tackle these challenges?  Watch this recording of a live event where you’ll learn how you can elicit the best thinking in your unit. This training includes a simulated activity which will demonstrate how you can design and facilitate a collaborative and interactive meeting or brainstorming session with your team. You’ll walk away with a detailed facilitation guide and tips for how to implement this practice on your campus. If you’re looking for ways to reinvigorate your meetings and workshops, this training is for you! 

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