This workshop is designed for mid-career faculty members, both tenured and non-tenure track. Faculty recently promoted to associate professor will find this training helpful for proactively designing the next phase of their career. Any associate professor who wants to get re-energized will learn how to create a plan for moving forward.

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern

Options and Opportunities in the Mid-Career Years

In this section, you will gain an understanding of the career pathways, opportunities, and challenges for associate professors. Our subject matter expert will share research, from primary and secondary sources, on trends in institutional support for mid-career faculty.

Job Crafting: A Process for Designing Your Mid-Career

Once you understand the options and opportunities available to you in your mid-career, you will be introduced to the idea of job crafting: proactive changes you make at work to focus your efforts and energies on what you find most fulfilling. Job crafting can include task-specific decisions as well as changes in mindset and relationships to align your work with your current values, preferences, and motivations. While faculty members tend to have a fair amount of flexibility to craft their job, we will address the various aspects of university culture that are more or less supportive of job crafting.

How to Start Crafting Your Mid-Career

The final segment of the training is highly self-reflective and interactive. We will conduct activities that are based on design thinking to get you crafting your career. The webinar will end with an introduction to prototyping, an approach you can use after the webinar to select, implement and evaluate the changes you want to make in your career.