During your early career, you may feel pressure to make career decisions that don’t align with your personal or professional goals. Being able to set and maintain your boundaries and knowing when to be more flexible with them can help you achieve your ideal career trajectory without sacrificing too much. In this session, we’ll discuss how to set your boundaries based on your personal and professional goals, and how to maintain those boundaries while balancing competing priorities.
Come join us to learn about the immense power of artificial intelligence and how it can be harnessed to your school’s advantage. If you’re looking to make informed decisions about which academic programs to stop, start, or grow, this event is for you. Specifically, you’ll explore how artificial intelligence can help you to:
Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between IUI and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. November 1, 2024 (3:30pm – 5:00pm ET) | Five Paths to Leadership℠ December 6, 2024 (3:30pm – 5:00pm ET) | The Balancing Acts of Academic Leadership Leadership requires the constant evaluation of a series of trade-offs. For instance, you may ask yourself questions like, “Do I lead as a faculty member or as a department head?” “Do I focus on the immediate or the long-term?” “Am I a colleague or a supervisor?” This session introduces the “balancing act” or “seesaw” as a framing device that will help you to navigate these inherent trade-offs by orienting your leadership choices and helping you to customize your choices to the situation, opportunity, and problem at hand. Pre-WorkBefore the session: Resources to Bring with You to the Session Make sure you have: After the session: The three Seesaw videos shown during the session can be re-visited as needed in the Table of Contents section above. Recommended Trainings: January 10, 2025 (3:30pm – 5:00pm ET) | Leadership Responsibilities You serve in a critical and visible […]
As a trusted member of your campus community, there may come a time when a student or colleague turns to you, sharing their experience of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking. In those crucial moments, it’s essential to be prepared to respond thoughtfully and sensitively, avoiding any actions or words that might inadvertently cause further harm. This video course is tailored for faculty and staff who do not have a mandatory obligation to report incidents of sexual harassment to their designated Title IX Coordinator but wish to support those who come forward. You will learn at least seven effective conversational strategies that will empower you to engage in informed and empathetic discussions, while also understanding the potential risks of miscommunication. Through real-life scenarios and practical exercises, this course equips you with the skills needed to navigate these sensitive conversations with confidence and compassion, ensuring that you’re ready to provide meaningful support when it matters most.
Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between IUI and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. October 8 and 9, 2024 | In-person Workshop The materials for this session can be found by clicking the “View Workshop Materials” button on the right. They include the agenda, slide decks, and outputs from the activities: Five Paths Meetings and the Appreciative Interview. November 19, 2024 (1:00pm – 2:30pm ET) | Report-out from October session During our previous workshop, you established a leadership commitment for yourself. In our upcoming session, you’ll do the following: No specific preparation is needed, nor do you need to bring anything specific to the training. Just come prepared to engage in conversation with your colleagues. Recommended Training: Leaders as Coaches: Improving Employee and Team Performance In this three-part webcast series, you’ll learn a variety of essential coaching techniques, all of which will help you motivate and build trust with your team members. Skills include the following: December 17, 2024 (1:00pm – 2:30pm ET) | Five Paths to Leadership℠ Continued Learning To prepare for this session: You’ve been introduced to the Five Paths to Leadership℠ […]
You may be familiar with Academic Impressions’ Five Paths to Leadership® Framework. Perhaps you’ve taken the self-assessment and used it to gain a greater awareness of your natural leadership style. The self-assessment is a useful tool that allows for reflection and self-discovery. But did you know that you can also get a customized 2-day intensive training that utilizes team’s composite scores? The benefit of such a training is that it allows you to examine how your team prefers to operate, which can reveal a lot about its group dynamics. For instance, the team profile may reveal how fast or slow the group is to make decisions, or how they handle stressful situations. The training can be invaluable for moving the team beyond those roadblocks. Join us online for a moderated discussion, and hear how three campus leaders—Dr. Schnavia Hatcher, Dr. Sebrena Jackson, and Ruth Pionke, MBA—used the multi-day tailored team development training to bring more cohesion to their teams. Each will share how facilitated team development work impacted their initiatives, and they’ll explain the results they are seeing as they relate to increased psychological safety, trust, and team performance. If you’re looking for ways to improve the way your team works together, this discussion is for you!
October 17-18, 2024 If you missed the in-person workshop or if you would just like to review, please watch this course: Understanding Your Five Paths to Leadership℠ Assessment Results – Academic Impressions November 19, 2024 | Debriefing Your CommitmentsThis session is designed as a follow-up to the October workshop and it will help the group continue to build momentum and community together. We’re confident this session will allow you to continue to: • Learn from each other, thus strengthening the community and support they receive from each other.• Build their coaching skills through practice. January 9, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Interpersonal Trust February 11, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | The Secret to Great Feedback March 11, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Time Management and Delegation April 15, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Preparing Your Leadership Philosophy Statement + Perfectionism May 19, 2025 | 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM | Full Day Workshop
Team, committee, and group-based work abounds in higher education. But many struggle to collaborate effectively in these settings because not everyone comes to the table with the same understanding, expectation, and collaboration style. While teams are often designed to bring together different voices and perspectives, most leaders default to a singular approach to teamwork that works well for some, but that also causes frustration, withdrawal, or conflict for others. In this event, we’ll use the Five Paths to Leadership® as a framework to introduce the four different collaboration styles that are at play within any given team. We’ll walk you through a detailed explanation of each path and provide tactics that leaders and team members alike can use to approach collaboration and group-based work more effectively. You will leave with a more nuanced understanding of the collaboration types that yield the best results based on the outcomes you are trying to achieve, rather than defaulting to one style based on comfort or personal preference.
We’re thrilled to announce that Academic Impressions is beginning a new partnership with Verticomm, a managed hosting service provider. This collaboration is set to enhance our IT support capabilities, particularly in desktop support and troubleshooting. Verticomm brings a wealth of experience and resources that will allow us to streamline our IT operations and provide more efficient solutions to our needs. Whether it’s resolving technical issues or offering proactive support, their team is here to help us ensure smooth and effective use of our technology. In this course, you’ll meet Verticomm and learn how to engage their team for support.
Serving as a department leader requires you to constantly evaluate and decide between a series of trade-offs. For instance, you may ask yourself questions like: How you choose your position is largely dependent on your natural leadership style and how well you understand the impact of your leadership choices on others. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the Balancing Acts framework, which is a set of questions you can ask yourself to help you to navigate these inherent trade-offs. Specifically, you’ll explore the following three balancing acts, which will help you to understand how to make deliberate decisions on how you show up as a leader: By learning how to intentionally adjust your leadership style to the situation, opportunity, or problem at hand, you can maximize your influence as a department leader.
