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Fundamentals for Chiefs of Staff: Understanding Your Role and Ensuring Success from the Start

Fundamentals for Chiefs of Staff: Understanding Your Role and Ensuring Success from the Start July 29-30, 2021 Join us for a one-of-a-kind chiefs of staff program solely for those working in higher education. EVENT INFORMATION ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

Cultural Humility: A Framework to Mitigate Personal Bias

We all have biases that show up in our interactions and perceptions of others.  But these biases can be problematic when they are used unconsciously or consciously to judge, misinterpret, or limit our interactions with others.  How often do you pause and reflect on your social interactions and ask yourself “What did I assume about this person that was not accurate”?   By reflecting and holding ourselves accountable to how biases show up in our interactions, we not only encourage our own personal growth, but we also create opportunity to fully understand another person’s lived experience.    Join us online to understand the root cause of your biases and develop a practice that helps mitigate bias in your interactions with others.  In this training, you will learn how to develop cultural humility as a framework and daily practice that helps you:  Suspend judgement and be curious about other people’s perspectives and backgrounds Ask questions to aid you in reflection about your own beliefs and behaviors Interpret your interactions with others You will also explore barriers that might perpetuate your assumptions about others and prevent you from developing this practice.  Cultural humility will not only encourage your personal development and growth through self-reflection, but it will also foster meaningful growth in your relationships with others as you begin to experience those relationships with a newfound sense of wonderment and openness.   

Writing Workshop for Advancement

Writing Workshop for Advancement THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO: May 5-6, 2021 Strengthen the voice and consistency of your communications to donors and alumni. EVENT INFORMATION Check back soon for links! ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

Impactful Online Donor Events

Impactful Online Donor Events March 30, 2021 Leave a lasting impression on donors by hosting online events that resonate with their needs and preferences. Welcome to your course page for your virtual conference! We’ll be adding links to meeting rooms, schedules, social media, and course materials as they become available. Make sure to check back as it gets closer to your conference! EVENT INFORMATION ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

Leading and Structuring an Inclusive Pedagogy Initiative: A Case Study from Illinois State University

As part of larger diversity and inclusion efforts, many institutions have inclusive pedagogy initiatives underway. But the way they are approaching them when it comes to scope, level of resourcing, and degree of partnership and involvement across academic units varies widely. It can be difficult for those charged with leading inclusive pedagogy initiatives to know how and where to get started or how to broaden and deepen their impact.   Join us online to learn about an exemplary inclusive pedagogy initiative from Illinois State University. You will gain insight into how the initiative was conceived, built, and implemented. Through the lens of her own experience, our instructor will share pieces of advice and lessons learned around the following key questions:   How do you conduct a faculty needs assessment? What strategies can you use to foster cross-divisional partnership and buy-in from academic leaders? How can you effectively resource the initiative absent of robust CTL or faculty affairs resources? How can you build visibility around the initiative across the institution?

Increasing Scholarly Productivity by Leading with Your Voice

Especially in the early stages of your career, you need to grow your identity as an independent scholar. But you might receive feedback from a mentor or a reviewer that they “don’t hear your voice” in your writing. Or more commonly, you might sense that the articles you want to write aren’t even getting written.  How exactly can you lead with your voice to find momentum throughout the publication process and increase your scholarly productivity? Watch this video course to learn practical writing tips that emphasize your unique contributions to the field in these parts of the process: Writing the abstract Selecting your journal Reviewing the literature Editing the words on the page You will learn to identify, clarify, and communicate your argument.  Through the completion of nine course exercises, you will make actual progress toward publication of a specific manuscript.  Early-career faculty, faculty shifting fields or writing genres, or those struggling from inefficiency or burnout will especially benefit from this course.  

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Engaging in Dialogue About Race and Bias

Feelings of defensiveness and discomfort are common when engaging in conversations around race and bias. Even those who have done extensive reading on these emotionally-charged topics can find themselves fumbling if they haven’t yet reflected on how their own identities and biases impact the way they show up in the world—and in these difficult conversations. To get more comfortable engaging in these dialogues, we must first lean into the discomfort of individual reflection and actions that prepare us to enter them in an open and effective way. Join us for a two-hour virtual training where we will explore four key concepts and how they come into play during conversations around race and bias: You will be given a workbook of activities, tools, and resources to help you move beyond simply understanding the definitions of these key concepts and begin the hard work of making meaning of how they play out in your life and in any conversation you enter. With the aid of the workbook, you will leave with a plan to continue to strengthen your ability to effectively engage in conversations around race and bias.

Supervising Intergenerational Teams: A Training for Higher Education Leaders

Your team is growing more diverse every day; this includes across different generations from across generations.  Each generation has its own preferences and values that motivate them, and it’s important to understand those differences in order to build a cohesive and resilient workplace culture that maximizes individual and team performance and minimizes conflict. With almost a quarter of the labor force set to retire in the next decade, it’s crucial to recognize the contributions of all generations of workers.  Join us online to learn:  Research that highlights the benefits of addressing the needs of your different generations. Strategies for how to motivate and coach your age-diverse team, so that they feel engaged in their work and have the tools to better understand and collaborate creatively and productively with each other. How to respond to and address interpersonal conflict that may arise within your team with an awareness and respect for the different generations. You’ll walk away with greater confidence in knowing how to communicate and engage across generational differences. 

Inclusive Communication: A Training for Higher Ed Leaders, Personal Development & Skill Building

Leaders have a powerful role to play in setting the tone for the organizational culture. They must therefore be very conscious of how they communicate: leadership comes with visibility, so a failure to communicate in ways that make others feel safe and understood will be noticed by their teams and peers alike, and will negatively impact the group’s sense of engagement and belonging.    Join us for an online workshop that will help you as a higher ed leader make your everyday communication with others more inclusive. Through a blend of presentation, group discussion, and scenario-based working time, we will explore the following questions:   Who is your audience and what are their needs? What is your role as a leader vis-à-vis the specific person or people you are addressing? How can you put your audience at ease and make them feel heard and seen in the way you are communicating? How can you communicate in ways that ensure that personhood and authenticity—for both yourself and those you are addressing—stay top of mind? You will leave the workshop better equipped to make your communication—both day-to-day and formal —more audience-centered, more inclusive, and more effective for the people you lead. 

Increase Giving through Inspiring Annual Giving Communications

Increase Giving through Inspiring Annual Giving Communications March 30 – March 31, 2021 Learn how to integrate your institutional story to engage and inspire your alumni and donors. EVENT INFORMATION ENSURE YOUR TECHNOLOGY IS READY This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs

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