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University of Texas at El Paso Chairs Leadership Program 

Chairs Leadership Program – 2025-26’  September 19, 2025 | The Five Paths to Leadership®   As a department chair, you play a pivotal role in advancing your department’s goals in partnership with your faculty, staff, and academic leadership. To lead effectively in this role, you need a clear understanding of yourself and how you show up as a leader.  In this session, you’ll use the Academic Impressions Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment to explore your leadership strengths and gaps. You’ll gain insight into how your natural leadership style surfaces in both everyday and high-stress situations, and learn strategies for adapting your approach to meet the needs of different individuals and contexts. By increasing your self-awareness and leadership agility, you’ll be better equipped to foster engagement, build alignment, and lead your department with confidence.  October 17, 2025 |  Embrace Your Leadership: 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 Gift in Disguise: The Leadership Opportunity Hidden in Crisis

In a time when higher education is navigating persistent uncertainty and complex stakeholder dynamics, bold leadership isn’t just aspirational—it’s essential. This session invites you to pause and reflect: What is the future of higher ed that we want to see? How can we work toward that future?   Building on the powerful themes in The Best Gift Higher Education Never Asked For, this interactive webcast will introduce practical ways to help leaders create space for meaningful, forward-looking dialogue. You’ll learn how to structure sessions that surface real concerns, mobilize your teams around a shared vision, and move from reactive planning to strategic investment.  Whether you’re just beginning to rethink what’s next or are already leading change efforts on your campus, this hands-on experience will leave you equipped to initiate critical conversations with clarity, intention, and momentum. Come prepared to reflect, explore, and take the next bold step.  Can’t join us live? Watch the recording and reach out to us to learn more about how we can support you in hosting these conversations on your campus.  

Applying the Five Paths to Leadership® Model

Higher education needs leaders who are versatile and self-aware. The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment provides a way for leaders to dive deep into their leadership strengths and areas for improvement, understand their teams’ needs and motivations, and communicate more effectively across the board. This self-paced course is designed to provide just-in-time support and practical tools to help you apply the Five Paths to different aspects of your leadership. We’ll cover topics ranging from leading yourself, to leading others and your team, to leading systems. Whether you’re focused on improving your own leadership in an individual or one-on-one setting or leading a large team or division, this course will help you lead more effectively and confidently in specific situations.

Enhance Decision-Making During Times of Uncertainty

Higher education leaders are constantly called upon to make tough, high-stakes decisions—often without complete information, under tight timelines, and in environments marked by competing priorities. The pressure is real, and it can lead to feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of the best path forward. This self-paced course is designed to provide just-in-time support and practical tools to help you regain clarity and momentum in your decision-making. Whether you’re struggling to make an individual decision or navigating a complex decision with others, this course will equip you with both personal and collaborative strategies to move forward more confidently.

21st Century Leadership Skills – Illinois Institute of Technology

you look to move into the workplace, it is more important than ever to expand your leadership abilities in order to be successful. Although you will have learned key content and practiced skills like creativity and collaboration in your classes, employers often report that graduates do not possess the level of preparedness in leadership skills needed to be successful in their careers. This course is designed to reinforce and help you to demonstrate your ability to work in increasingly global and collaborative work environments.  This course covers the following topics:   This course consists of five modules encompassing leadership skills that will benefit you in the workplace. Each module includes several short videos and accompanying workbook prompts and activities, with each designed to take you about 50-75 minutes per module. We recommend pacing them out to one module per week, but you can complete the activities at your own pace!

Guidelines for Writing External Review Letters for Tenure and Promotion

Writing external review letters for faculty’s tenure and promotion cases is a vital piece of service to the profession. But guidelines around them can be unclear and vague. If you’ve been asked to write an external review letter, and you’re unsure of how to start, this course will help. How It Works This course incorporates written resources, labeled by topic. To view the resources in a topic, click on the topic heading. If you’re completely new to writing external review letters, it may make the most sense to go through the topics in order. If you’ve written letters before, you may want to jump to topics that are most applicable to you in the moment.

Les Cinq Voies du Leadership

Le leadership est l’une des choses les plus difficiles à définir et pourtant, nous sommes capables de reconnaître instinctivement une bonne expérience de leadership lorsque nous en sommes témoins. Le bon leadership est difficile à définir entre autres parce qu’il peut prendre plusieurs formes. 

Reinvigorate Your Meetings and Workshops: A Training for Deans

Deans across higher education are tackling some of the biggest challenges yet.  Take, for instance, declining student enrollments (and the reduced budgets that follow) and the low levels of faculty morale and engagement (which, in turn, lead to high turnover). Let’s face it—these are big problems that take a village to solve. And yet, you probably feel like the responsibility to remedy these challenges falls largely on your shoulders. So how can you convene others across your college to become part of the village that can help you to tackle these challenges?  Watch this recording of a live event where you’ll learn how you can elicit the best thinking in your unit. This training includes a simulated activity which will demonstrate how you can design and facilitate a collaborative and interactive meeting or brainstorming session with your team. You’ll walk away with a detailed facilitation guide and tips for how to implement this practice on your campus. If you’re looking for ways to reinvigorate your meetings and workshops, this training is for you! 

Time Management and Flexibility

In your early career, you don’t always have a lot of control over your schedule, and you may not get direction on how to manage a long-term project. Professionals who are open to working with the schedules of others while also advocating for their needs and setting their own schedules can develop reputations as team players and top performers. In this session, we’ll discuss how you can manage your time in an environment where you don’t always have choices over what you work on.   This event is part of Developing Leadership Skills in Your Early Career to help you build leadership skills as an early leader. Learn more about the series, how it works, when the other sessions will occur, and who it was designed for.

Initiative and Professional Curiosity

Your early career is a time for a great deal of learning, and you often encounter so many new things that it can be overwhelming. Professionals who learn quickly where they can take initiative and build a sense of curiosity in their work really stand out in their organizations. In this session, we’ll explore how you can build your sense of initiative even with limited knowledge.  

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