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Defining Your Conflict Style: Determining the Best Approach to Resolution

Defining Your Conflict Style: Determining the Best Approach to Resolution June 5, 2023 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET Welcome to the course page for your bootcamp! More information will be added as we get closer to your event, so please check back soon. Important Links Welcome! This session will provide an overview of the Kraybill Style Matters Conflict Style Inventory. Participants will explore five conflict styles, discuss scoring for the assessment, and determine which conflict styles are most effective depending on the causes of the conflict. Upon completing the live session, participants will complete three one-on-one virtual sessions with their supervision coach to integrate the strategies they learned into their daily practice. 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

Building a Transformative Mindset on Your Team

Institutions currently face a changing student demographic, increased student disengagement, and the Great Resignation, and their old methods of operating may no longer allow them to be successful in a changing higher education landscape. As institutions look to boost or maintain student enrollment and retention, as well as to retain their faculty and staff, breaking free of habitual practices and acting decisively are more important than ever. However, enacting transformative change at your institution requires your team to be creative and to make bold decisions. How do you create an environment where your team feels empowered to think innovatively and act quickly? Join us for a virtual training to learn how to create an environment that allows for transformation. Our expert speaker Glenn Davis will walk you through building a transformative mindset on your team and creating leaders who are empowered to act decisively. You will also see how the unintended consequences of letting those act who often know students best can lead to more innovative solutions.

Securing the Gift: Making the Ask with Confidence

Gift officers can sometimes feel uncomfortable making the ask for a variety of reasons, and the anxiety they can produce may be felt and mirrored by donors, leading to a “no.” However, not making the ask can lead to missed opportunities and a loss of momentum with key prospects. A successful ask comes down to the relationship you’ve built with the donor, being clear about your role and intent, and a strong solicitation strategy that leads up to this moment. This approach requires knowing your prospect well: understanding their giving history, what motivates them to give, and the relationships they’ve built with the different stakeholders at your institution. Join this session to gain insights on how to strategically approach a prospect you have in mind to make the ask. When done right, this moment in a donor relationship should come organically with the assurance that the answer will be a yes—and if it is not, that the relationship will remain on solid ground, and you will get another opportunity to make an ask in the future.

Improving Your Donor Pipeline Through Academic Leader and Advancement Collaboration

Enhancing collaboration among alumni engagement, annual giving, and academic leaders is a strategic priority for many institutions. By engaging deans and academic leaders intentionally and early in the fundraising cycle, advancement professionals can help their academic colleagues see themselves within philanthropic work. Perhaps more importantly, this partnership can also provide alumni and donors with clear opportunities to realize the impact of their relationship investments. In this virtual training, you will learn how to determine what meaningful engagement by academic leaders can look like to support building your pipeline and improve alumni and donor engagement. You will analyze your institutional culture and context to effectively establish a partnership between your advancement shop and academic leaders. Participants will walk away with useful ideas to strategically engage alumni and donors.

Keys to a Successful Relationship Between Deans and Development Officers

Philanthropy is critical to helping institutions meet their academic missions, and at its core, it is all about building and maintaining relationships. Although fundraising is just one of the myriad responsibilities overseen by an academic dean, the development officer is a key partner in assisting the dean in achieving those fundraising goals. To find success in academic fundraising, the relationship between an academic dean and a development officer must be one built on mutual respect, trust, and clear communication. Successful fundraising teams develop complementary skills that, when combined, are more effective than the skills of one individual. Through this three-hour virtual training, you will be able to better prioritize fundraising goals as a dean and development officer team. You will learn how to build trust and set expectations with mutual fundraising goals in mind, establish a process to effectively move donors through your pipeline, and practice essential skills such as making an ask.

When Fear is Holding You Back: A Framework to Support Career Aspirations and Self-Efficacy

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a swirl of fear, asking questions like: What if I don’t get the job? What if I do get the job, and I can’t do it? What if I’m underqualified? What if I’m overqualified? What if I’m too old? What if I’m too young? What if I don’t get paid enough? What will my parents/children/partner/team think?   You are not alone. It’s not uncommon to experience doubt; however, if you are making career decisions from a place of overwhelm, guilt, and fear, you may be missing out on great opportunities and tremendous joy. During this session, our expert speaker and coach will share how she herself has faced her “fear beasts” and will share three resources to help keep you going when the fear creeps in.  

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.