Leading From the Middle

Join us for a five-part series to dive deeper into leading and building teams, motivating and leading at all levels, and managing and resolving conflict. Participants will engage with peers and facilitators as they interrogate their own strengths, develop skills required for aspiring administrators and leaders, and as they interrogate their own strengths and develop skills required for administration and leadership.

Location:

Date(s):

Wednesdays from 12:00-2:00 PM ET

Session 1: Wednesday, October 11
Session 2: Wednesday, October 18
Session 3: Wednesday, October 25
Session 4: Wednesday, November 8
Session 5: Wednesday, November 15

program fees:

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Critical Concepts and Strategies for New Administrators and Managers in Higher Education

- Event Info -

Academic administrators rarely receive formal training in leadership, supervision, or the management of teams. This five-part interactive program provides higher ed professionals (both faculty and staff) who have recently assumed an administrative role the tools and skills necessary to manage and lead with confidence. This program delivers strategies for managing direct and indirect reports, inheriting or building a team, motivating and supervising performance, and navigating conflict related to organizational culture and interpersonal dynamics.

Each session will address intersectionality – specifically the nuances of gender and race and their impact on the perceptions of one’s leadership effectiveness. This cutting-edge program moves beyond transactional training and cultivates transformational leadership skill-building that equips participants to effectively manage relationships, motivate high performance, and navigate conflict.

Participants will engage with peers from different institution types and facilitators (senior leaders with expertise in higher education administration) as they develop skills required for aspiring administrators and leaders.

- What participants learn -

Develop strategies for leading and building a team as a new administrator
Identify next steps for enhancing their administrative skills
Understand challenges facing middle managers and ways to overcome them

Identify conflict styles and practices ways to manage and resolve conflict
Discuss ways to motivate high performance among direct and indirect reports

- Who should attend -

Leaders who are new to higher education administrative roles with supervisory or management responsibilities. Ideal participants are seeking to build key skills as effective leaders and managers, and gain guidance and clarity on leading with influence.

*This program is intended for directors, assistant/associate directors, department chairs, assistant/associate chairs, or other faculty and staff leaders with supervisory responsibilities.

The presenter was engaging, the session was participatory. I felt like we are really building community among the participants. The information shared today was truly pure gold!"