This program is aimed at supervisors, managers, and leaders from all levels in higher education, including but not limited to associate directors, directors, department chairs, deans, associate deans, vice presidents, and associate vice presidents. Perhaps you are:

• A department chair with an assistant professor trying to make tenure who’s fully focused on research and neglecting their teaching duties.
• A dean facing a faculty member who disrupts meetings to vent about a policy which they encourage others to disregard.
• A director or AVP with a longstanding team member who consistently undermines efforts to innovate or change.
• A vice president with a direct report who is bullying others, although not necessarily violating policy.

No matter where you work on campus, if you’re looking for new strategies to help you gain confidence in communicating with your most challenging team members, this conference is for you.

DAY ONE: October 1, 2024
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. CT (local time, Milwaukee, WI)
Registration and Continental Breakfast (included in registration fee)
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

 

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Opening Comments and Introductions
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.

 

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Introduction to the EM & EM Model
9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
In this session, our speaker will introduce you to the model we will use for the rest of the workshop, focusing on engagement, management, enforcement, and then minimization. You’ll have the chance to focus on a difficult person and how their behavior affects your team.

 

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Morning Break
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

 

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Engagement
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
During this session, Jeanne will cover the first step of the model—engagement. In this step, you’ll practice how to: clearly articulate the problem, actively listen, acknowledge others’ perspectives, set standards and expectations for behavioral change, and schedule a follow-up and offer support.

 

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Lunch (included in registration fee)
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

 

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Engagement (Continued)
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
You will continue to practice using the engagement strategy with case studies and your own examples.

 

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Management
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
When handled thoughtfully, many situations can be resolved at the engagement stage. However, when this proves ineffective, the next step is management. During this session, you’ll strategize how to rearticulate the problem with a stronger emphasis on expectations, building upon the methods employed during engagement.

 

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Afternoon Break
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.

 

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Enforcement
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
If engagement and management fail to address performance or conduct, the final chance for behavior change is the third step: enforcement. Enforcement requires you to establish expectations and consequences for non-compliance. These are the thorniest aspects of the process and all too easy to get wrong, so we will engage in plenty of practice. During this session, we’ll spend time discussing when and how to:

• Involve Human Resources.
• Develop a behavior modification plan.
• Facilitate a formal meeting to address concerns.
• Document the process.

 

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Networking Reception (included in registration fee)
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
This informal reception is your chance to decompress, have some refreshments on us, and expand your network of connections. Our programs are intentionally designed for smaller groups, so this is a great time to catch up with attendees and speakers whom you may not have connected with yet.

 

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DAY TWO: October 2, 2024
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CT (local time, Milwaukee, WI)
Continental Breakfast (included in registration fee)
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

 

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Reflection and Questions
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
To start the second day, we will give you some time to reflect on what you have learned so far, and to bring up questions you would like answered in the remainder of the workshop.

 

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Enforcement (Continued)
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
You will continue to practice using the enforcement strategy with case studies and your own examples.

 

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Minimization
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
In the event that circumstances make it impossible for you to take effective disciplinary action, or if that’s not the appropriate next step, your last resort is to minimize or remove the impact of the negative conduct in question on others. We’ll discuss when this is appropriate, along with strategies to support your community.

 

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Morning Break
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

 

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Takeaways and Intervention Planning
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
During our final session, you will have the opportunity to begin to craft an intervention plan for your difficult person, as well as to share takeaways that you will use after this conference.

 

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Conference Wrap Up and Q&A
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Saint Kate The Arts Hotel
139 East Kilbourn Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202

A discounted room rate of $199/night is available if you use this link to book your room before September 8, 2024.