Workshop: Leading and Influencing as a Department Chair

ON-CAMPUS WORKSHOP

Leading and Influencing
as a Department Chair

Designed for institutions that are looking to invest in the development and success of their department chairs as leaders and managers.  This workshop is a great fit if you want a leadership program:

 

  • that’s highly practical and skills-based
  • troubleshoot scenarios that department chairs will face during their tenure
  • provides practical advice and skills that every department chair needs
  • develop tools and tactics to help your department chairs be successful in their duties
  • sharpen the skills needed to both manage and lead an academic department
  • to improve the strategic vision of your academic department and faculty colleagues
  • targeted at aspiring, new, and experienced department chairs
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AGENDA

Content Modules
  • Effective identification of issues, productive framing of communications with stakeholders, and management of unanticipated and longstanding conflicts
  • Leverage leadership qualities to manage productively
  • Understanding the ability to work with others, both inside and outside of the department, to create a vision for the future and to energize others to make that vision a reality
  • Shape performance standards and develop expectations for appropriate faculty and staff behavior
  • How to motivate and inspire others to work towards departmental goals
  • Strategies on how to effectively manage difficult colleagues
Tangible Resources and Tools You Get:
  • Workbooks to help you:
    • Set the stage for effective leadership
    • Set performance expectations
  • An action plan for creating a department level shared vision for the future
  • Due diligence checklists on:
    • Drivers of campus conflict and how to approach them
    • Prepare for difficult conversations and
    • Dispute resolution essentials