ONLINE BOOTCAMP
Essential Skills for Supervisors
September 19 – October 24, 2023
Individual Sessions: September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2023
This event is canceled
Learn effective strategies for supervision and gain practical tools to support individual, team, and organizational goals.
Overview
All too often in higher education, individuals move into a supervisory role without the necessary tools and skills to be successful. Particularly in today’s challenging environments, effective supervision is key to building an effective culture where each individual can contribute to team success.
Join us online for a six-week bootcamp specifically designed for higher-education supervisors who are looking to deepen their skills. The bootcamp includes both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities, as well as a leadership assessment and one private coaching session. This blend of engagement opportunities will allow you time to reflect on and then share your learning in a communal group setting during the live online weekly sessions. The bootcamp is limited to 25 participants to ensure a personal, engaging, and action-oriented experience.
You will leave the bootcamp as a member of a network of supervisors, with a deeper understanding of effective strategies for supervision, as well as with a host of practical tools you can apply right away to better support individual, team, and organizational goals.
A Highly Personalized Experience
This online bootcamp consists of:
- Six live online weekly sessions where you can focus on developing and refining your supervisory skills.
- Asynchronous activities, no more than one hour in length, linked to sessions 2, 3, 4, and 5 to accommodate differing schedules, and that will allow for deeper learning to inform community engagement in the live online sessions.
- Leadership Assessment: Through Academic Impressions’ Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment, individual assignments, and group discussions, you’ll discover how you leverage your leadership strengths under typical circumstances as well as more stressful ones.
- Activities geared to various learning preferences, including videos with embedded reflection and hands-on application exercises.
- As a part of the bootcamp, you will have one one-on-one 30-minute coaching session with Dr. Therese Lask, the bootcamp facilitator. The first session will allow you to identify individual goals for your engagement in the bootcamp. The second will help you set a path forward for your continued development as a supervisor.
To preserve the intimate and interactive nature of this training, the bootcamp is limited to 25 participants. Register early to reserve your spot!
Who Should Attend
This bootcamp has been designed for those who supervise professional staff and need to deepen their supervisory skills and style.
REGISTERHear About the Bootcamp Experience
[vimeography id=”33″] The Academic Impressions Bootcamp Experience: Dr. Jeffrey Malanson ExpandDr. Jeffrey Malanson: The way the experience was structured, it provided a tremendous amount of flexibility to self-pace a lot of the material in a way that made the most sense for your schedule. But then you had the weekly structure of the Thursday and Friday face-to-face, in-person sessions, which were much better and more effective than I was expecting given everyone’s Zoom fatigue these days.
I generally think of myself as being a pretty reflective person, a self-reflective person, but was really impressed with the degree to which some of the activities we did made me confirm things I’d already thought about myself. But a lot of the activities really opened my eyes to the strategies I use in crisis situations and the way I communicate with other people, and the way maybe I need to do a better job of communicating with other people. A better understanding of the different buttons leaders can push to get better results out of their teams and to get better buy-in from the people that are working with.
One of the hard parts about a conference is you want to pack as much learning and as much experience as you can into the time you’re there. So by halfway through the second day or after lunch or whatever, you’re feeling pretty tired, maybe not as engaged with the material. So the online workshop really allowed you to engage with material on a timeline when you were prepared to do that when you’re prepared to learn the most, and really engage in, and then, you can ramp up for those weekly sessions each week and make sure you were fully prepared.
One of the nice parts is that the way they structured our bootcamp is that whenever we did little breakout sessions, they tended to put us with the same smaller group of people. So you had an opportunity, even if it was just in 10 or 15 minutes increments, to start building a longer-term relationship and to learn more from each other, rather than needing to essentially do new icebreaker events or get to know each other for the first time each week. You really got to build some relationships over time, which was really nice.
The focus on leadership philosophy that came from the bootcamp has really been eye-opening in terms of really thinking carefully about each experience I pursue, each opportunity I pursue, each interaction I have, “How is this confirming who I am, or how is this deviating from who I want to be? How is this getting me to that next step in my career?”
The two pieces of advice are one, make sure you really have the time to engage with the material each week. Then two would be to make sure you come to the participatory sessions ready, able, and willing to engage. It’s not the kind of experience where you can passively sit back and just absorb what others are saying and really fully benefit from it. You need to be willing to do the work, engage with the material, talk to your peers because that’s when you will fully be able to benefit from the experience.
The Academic Impressions Bootcamp Experience: Dr. Marilyn Odom ExpandDr. Marilyn Odom: Well, I have been department chair for a little over four years, and with many academicians, we move into these leadership positions without having any formal training in leadership, so I try to seek out opportunities where I can. I had attended a conference by AI and I was really impressed with it. So when I saw this opportunity, I thought it would a good experience for me. I approached my Dean, he said yes and we did it.
I thought it was probably one of the best experiences of my academic career. I’d learned so much, I reflected a lot, I pulled things out that I had not thought about in a while. I had not really thought about my leadership philosophy in eons. It gave me an opportunity to think about that, reflect on it, to really pull out my core values.
Now I have my new leadership philosophy printed out and it stays right here in front of me, between my two monitors and at my keyboard, and I look at it. Especially when I’m about to have a meeting with my faculty, I will look at it and I will read it and I will remind myself what my philosophy is, and remind myself to stick to that philosophy. Whether that means I’m about to have a good conversation where I’m going to build them up even more, more, more, or if it’s going to be a not so good conversation where I have to hold them accountable. But I have that, and that is probably the most significant impact that I took away from the bootcamp.
Other than the leadership philosophy, one thing that I know that I probably had not been as attentive to is really telling my faculty how great they are. Because I chair a department, and I probably had not just applauded them enough. I did do some, I will not say that I did not do any, but to recognize that.
Just do it. Go in open-minded. Be prepared to work, be prepared to think, be prepared to reflect, but just do it. I told my Dean that this money was well worth it, it was a good investment.
“This was a wonderful, innovative experience. Great ideas and resources were shared by participants and presenters. High energy and an overall wonderful learning experience.”
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September 19 – October 24, 2023Individual Sessions: September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, & 24, 2023
Session 1: Introduction and Self-discovery Tuesday, September 19, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
This opening session will lay the foundation for the program by creating a collective understanding of why supervisors are so important within an organization. Participants will be asked to complete the 5 Paths Self-Assessment prior to this session to help build understanding of how they approach leadership.
Session 2: Building the Foundation Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
The most effective teams create a vision framework outlining their purpose, values, and vision for the future. This session will dive into how to effectively use a vision framework to guide your team’s focus and actions to achieve organizational goals.
Prior to this live session, we request that you view asynchronous video content by Therese Lask in order to learn and review related material.
Session 3: Performance Management Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Being an effective supervisor requires setting clear expectations for both individuals and the team. Through hands-on application, we will explore how to not only set clear expectations but provide actionable feedback to keep staff members engaged. Strategies for developing productive one-on-one meetings with team members and your supervisor will also be addressed.
Prior to this live session, we request that you view asynchronous video content in order to learn and review related material.
Session 4: Navigating Conflict Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
As a supervisor, knowing how to address conflict in a productive way is a critical skill. Through case-study examples provided by participants, we will explore various techniques for navigating conflict with individual staff members.
Prior to this live session, we request that you view asynchronous video content in order to learn and review related material.
Session 5: Coaching and Developing your direct reports Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Coaching is a critical skill for helping members of your team grow and develop. Effective coaching requires an understanding of how to apply empathy and effective listening skills to your discussion. In this session, we’ll use the GROW model as a foundation for the individual goal-setting process.
Prior to this live session, we request that you view asynchronous video content in order to learn and review related material.
Session 6: Team Development Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
In this wrap-up coaching session, you’ll have a chance to reflect on the six course sessions and devise the next steps for actualizing what you’ve learned within your day-to-day supervision of others.
30-minute Coaching Session: Week of October 24, 2023
For our coaching session, we will explore the goals you identified during the previous sessions to strengthen your supervisory skills and build a well-functioning team.
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Therese Lask
Therese Lask, Head of Practice for Leadership, Academic Impressions
Therese has been in higher education for over 25 years, with experience in academic affairs, student affairs, development, and operations. Following her purpose to help others grow and develop, Therese draws upon the work of such thought leaders as Meg Wheatley, Kouzes and Posner, Angela Duckworth, and Jim Collins to guide her work. It is Therese’s belief that we can all continually grow and enhance our ability to lead others.
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Dr. Therese LaskHead of Practice, Leadership,
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