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Leveraging Your Alumni Data for Deeper Engagement

It wasn’t long ago that gathering alumni engagement data used to be a challenge at many institutions. This is no longer the case today, as alumni engagement data is routinely collected across the industry. However, many advancement shops may not have a full grasp of how best to utilize their data to identify potential volunteers or help steward current volunteers toward philanthropic opportunities. Take your alumni engagement to the next level by developing a data-informed approach to creating strategies to drive your alumni and donor engagement with a focus on both volunteerism and participation. By developing and utilizing metrics that can help to inform and direct your long-term engagement strategy with volunteers, you will not only be able to increase your giving capacity across the gift spectrum, but you will also gain a better understanding of how to approach your alumni events, ensuring that no effort is wasted in the cultivation of your future donor base. Join us at this one-day virtual training to learn how to turn your data into measurable metrics that lead to new volunteers and increased giving opportunities, and which also ensure that your events are strategic and helping to convert attendees to donors. You will […]

Faculty Mentorship: Incorporating Inclusive Practices to Foster Faculty Success

Faculty Mentorship: Incorporating Inclusive Practices to Foster Faculty Success December 12 – 13, 2023 Learn to facilitate dynamic and mutually beneficial mentoring relationships that embrace similarities and differences across a wide array of social identities. 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

Identifying Funding Sources to Achieve Your Academic Unit’s Strategic Plan

Academic deans, center directors, and their leadership teams can spend a considerable amount of time developing a detailed and action-oriented strategic plan for their college or academic unit. Identifying and implementing achievable goals not only requires the appropriate stakeholders, accountability measures, and communication plans, but also a clear understanding of the funding sources available to actualize a strategic vision. Aligning funding sources to strategic goals requires knowing the relationship between funding and strategic planning, your role as a “doer” vs. “guide,” and methods for building that knowledge in others through worksheets and reporting. Join us for this online training to develop skills in establishing a strategic planning and budget alignment process and supporting the development of your leadership team to achieve their strategic goals by allocating funding. This process will provide leaders with a tactical approach to guide strategic thinking and budget alignment.

Supervision Certificate Program

Supervision Certificate Program Learn effective strategies for supervision and gain practical tools to support your team in just 4 weeks. Login for Week #4 Live Training On: April 25, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. ET Use the links below to access the weekly trainings. Week 1: Introduction and Self-Discovery Week 2: Performance Management Week 3: Managing Conflict Week 4: Goal Setting (Complete Before Live) Join Week 4 LIVE Session (April 25, 2023) Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Curriculum Overview Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment

The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment Join the thousands of higher-ed leaders who have gained critical insights into their leadership using this tool. Results will automatically be emailed to you upon completion of the assessment. Look for an email from webmaster@academicimpressions.com. If you do not receive your results, please check your spam folder. If you do not receive your results report, please contact us at operations@academicimpressions.com with the name and email address you used to access the assessment for assistance. If you have previously accessed the The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment, even if you did not complete it, the course progress may indicate “100% complete”. If you click “Take the Assessment” you can verify whether or not you have actually taken the assessment: If you have not taken the assessment, you will see the assessment. If you have taken the assessment, you will see your scores. If you would like to re-take the The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment, please contact our customer service team. After taking the assessment, sign up here for one of Academic Impressions’ Debrief sessions designed to help you understand your results. During the workshop, we’ll walk through: What your results mean (you will get […]

Encore and Live Q&A: Conflict Management: A Practical Workshop for Leaders

Learn the strategies to help you effectively manage and respond to various conflicts within your department or institution. You will be introduced to practical tools that address conflict in its earliest stages before it becomes a formal dispute. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to resolving conflicts. That’s why our expert instructor will present numerous scenarios and discuss the use of framing, facilitation, and other dispute-resolution tools to help you: Improve and sustain a healthy working environment. Build rapport among colleagues. Increase faculty and staff morale.

Supervision Certificate Program On Demand Video Content

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 equally effective culture where each individual can contribute to team success.

Encore and Live Q&A: Setting up the Supervisory Relationship: Understanding and Adapting Your Supervisory Style

Encore and Live Q&A: Setting up the Supervisory Relationship: Understanding and Adapting Your Supervisory Style Build and deepen the supervisory relationship with new and existing staff members.  Login On: June 6, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. ET Unable to attend this live training? Stay registered to receive the recording of the training after the live event. JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education (Fall 2023)

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education October 19 – 20, 2023 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 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

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education (Summer 2023)

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education August 7 – 8, 2023 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 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

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education (Spring 2023)

Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education April 10 – 11, 2023 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 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

Essential Skills for Supervisors

Essential Skills for Supervisors September 19 – October 24, 2023 Individual Sessions: September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, 2023 Scroll down to view pre-work videos for sessions 2-5 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! Welcome to Essential Skills for Supervisors. We invite you to join our community of supervisors seeking to better understand the skills and self-awareness essential to your success. In preparation, mark your calendars for the following dates and times: Session 1 – 9/19 12:00-3:00 PM ET Session 2 – 9/26 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 3 – 10/3 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 4 – 10/10 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 5 – 10/17 12:00-1:30 PM ET Session 6 – 10/24 12:00-2:00 PM ET Please note, during the week of October 24 you will have the opportunity to schedule a one-on-one coaching session with Dr. Therese Lask, facilitator of the bootcamp. To deepen your learning and create opportunities for collaboration with your peers in the program, before sessions 2, 3, 4, and 5 there will be an estimated one-hour block of time needed to review video content to prepare for each of those sessions. As we get closer to the start date, please be on […]

Developing a Principal Gifts Program that Supports Transformational Priorities

Principal gifts, defined differently at different institutions, can bring high-level success to your institutional priorities—especially those advocated by your president and academic leaders. By building out a disciplined principal gifts program, regardless of its current maturity, you can bring clarity to how your team and institutional stakeholders advance transformational ideas in partnership with your top donors. Challenges to this endeavor, however, can prevent teams from building out the program they want. Whether it’s lack of confidence speaking to and managing prospect relationships, managing donor fatigue, or having budget shortfalls with capital projects without donors in your pipeline to finish the job, developing an effective principal gifts program can help you prepare viable prospects who are poised and ready to give when the moment is right. Join us for this conversation on developing a disciplined principal gifts program, and preparing your institution for sustained success both now and into the future.

Leading Change From Where You Are: Strategies for Faculty

Many faculty feel overwhelmed by the overlapping crises in higher education, and that they have little agency for making change. But faculty can take action to make change right where they are by leveraging their strengths and preferences as leaders and building effective networks of colleagues with complementary abilities. By identifying opportunities for meaningful change through service and committees, campus and community engagements, and fieldwork and research, you can make the kind of difference that creates impact and moves culture change across the academy. This workshop is your first step in understanding how to best align your leadership strengths with opportunities for impact. In this virtual training, we will begin by examining leadership myths that often inhibit effective leadership by and for faculty. We will then explore how you as a faculty member can leverage your leadership strengths and preferences to harness your power in sustainable and collaborative ways for grassroots change. By the end of this workshop, you will have identified strategies, next steps, and an action plan to initiate the change you want to see.

Using Feedback to Build a Growth-Minded Work Environment

Learning to address conflict and manage difficult personalities as a leader or manager can be a stressful process. Once a situation has reached the point of conflict, it is often hard to manage it without emotion and move forward in a productive way. However, supervisors who work intentionally to create a growth-minded environment can engender a space where addressing conflict or confronting different opinions comes naturally to everyone involved. As such, you create a space where unhealthy conflict cannot grow and provides opportunities for those who have a habit of dissention to compromise or find a position better suited to their needs. Join us for a virtual training to learn how to manage performance and feedback in order to create a healthy working environment that fosters debate and encourages empathy and positive intentional communication. Our expert facilitator Dr. Cié Gee will walk you through how to address conflict or difficult behavior with clear and regular feedback early on in the process. You will learn how implementing regular feedback and honest conversations will lead to a more productive, psychologically safe environment. You will also take a look inward to learn how your leadership practices could be unconsciously nurturing an environment in […]

Encore: Strategies to Confidently Communicate with Students Experiencing Mental Health Challenges

Encore: Strategies to Confidently Communicate with Students Experiencing Mental Health Challenges Learn best practices for more effective interactions with students experiencing mental health issues, even if you’re not a counselor. Login On: June 7, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Encore: Navigate Challenging Conversations with Donors

Encore: Navigate Challenging Conversations with Donors Gain confidence in your ability to engage with donors around polarizing topics. Login On: July 11, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET Unable to attend this live training? Stay registered to receive the recording of the training after the live event. JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:

Encore and Q&A: Structuring Scholarships for Women and Students of Color in a Shifting Legal Landscape

When donors want to establish a scholarship for the two federally protected class groups that receive the most legal scrutiny–women and students of color–your advancement shop must navigate risk in a way that doesn’t scare away donors or distract from their intent. It’s necessary to understand the shifting legal landscape affecting scholarships for these protected class groups. Join us online to learn how to establish scholarships for women and students of color that abide by federal guidelines. In this training, you’ll learn how to conduct a thorough review process of your current gift agreements to help protect the reputation of your institution and donors against legal or political scrutiny. To apply these strategies to your context, you will have the opportunity to share your own examples of scholarships for women and students of color ahead of time. Some examples will be showcased during the training to highlight what language to include or exclude to mitigate risk best.

Identifying Big Ideas to Secure Transformational Gifts

The maxim big ideas lead to big gifts has defined fundraising, and—by extension—most of academia over the last 20 or more years. The acceptance of this adage is evident not only by where the most generous gifts to academia are being targeted but also by the rapid expansion of advancement organizations across higher education globally. Institutions are often eager for transformational gifts, but the creation of the big idea to secure one remains elusive. In this virtual training, we will define the big ideas and big gifts while taking a deep dive into the processes that can generate those ideas that attract big gifts while not compromising the core mission of the institution. You will learn frameworks for sourcing ideas—who in academic, volunteer, and administrative leadership needs to be involved in the big-idea generation process, approaches to gift solicitation, and a review of funding models that could create an incentive for major donors.

Privilege and Its Role in Enhancing Equity

All of us enjoy privilege on some level, which means that all of us have an opportunity to use our privilege in support of those who experience marginalization. But how does one establish credibility and acceptance as an ally when there are so many opportunities to get it wrong? This training aims to remove the stigma from accepting our own privilege while identifying the nuances between performative and authentic connection. This session will identify bothtraditional as well as less recognizable forms of privilege and provide the tools toengage, create space for, and include communities where wedo nothold membership.