More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but session descriptions of the two days are below:  

Understanding Your Leadership Approach: The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment
Self-awareness is at the heart of effective leadership. This session guides you through a leadership assessment called the Five Paths to Leadership®, which allows you to understand your strengths and natural tendencies as a leader. The assessment can be helpful in deepening self-awareness and helping you to adapt your style to meet the needs of others, including faculty, chairs, and provosts.

Using the Five Paths to Leadership® to Create Effective Collaboration and Meetings
Top-down leadership doesn’t work in the academy. Leaders must have a collaborative stance to be effective, but collaboration isn’t simply bringing people together and hoping that good things happen. In this session, we’ll explore the specific principles and strategies that effective leaders follow to ensure that all voices are heard, and the work moves forward.

Navigating Conflict: Getting to Win-Win Outcomes
Resolving conflict within your unit can be tricky. Your unit’s leadership team, faculty, and staff often have competing interests. When issues feel both personal and crucial for all involved, it’s challenging to find a way forward that leaves everyone feeling heard and respected. Building upon the previous session, we’ll explore ways in which you can navigate such conflicts by focusing on win-win outcomes that help build relationships over the long-term.

Building Connections with LEGO® Serious Play® Methods: An Experiential Process for Reflective Dialogue
LEGO® Serious Play® is an experiential process designed for use with adults to prompt dialogue and encourage reflection. To help you get creative and expand your mindset using the approachable medium of play, our facilitator will lead you through a series of structured exercises.

Leading Change through Collaboration
This session will explore the benefits of collaborative leadership and how it can enhance decision-making, problem-solving, and innovation. Specifically, we’ll explore the role of collaborative leadership in leading change, building effective communication, and strengthening trust and teamwork.

Empowering Your Department Chairs: What They Want You to Know
Your charge as Dean is to build a productive and happy work culture. But you can’t do that alone. Your department chairs play a vital role in realizing this goal, so it’s important that you empower them to do this work effectively. And it’s important that you create the conditions that allow them to be successful. In this session, we’ll share some common feedback we’ve received and insights we’ve gleaned from our work with thousands of department chairs. If you’re interested in learning what department chairs want, and you need to feel supported and empowered, this session is for you.

Bringing It All Together
As we bring the program to a close, we’ll recap key insights gained during the conference, and you’ll identify specific actions you can apply to your everyday leadership choices when you return to campus.