Building Departmental Resilience

Format: Asynchronous

Time: 45-60 minutes

A resilient department is able to respond to challenge and change, engage effectively in disagreement and conflict, and meaningfully invest in the success of the department and the career and development trajectories of faculty, staff, and students.

Resiliency promotes individual and organizational health and reduces dysfunction and harm. A resilient department is dynamic and connected, able to weather adversity, loss, and threat. In a moment when many disciplines and most academic institutions face increasing pressure, resilient departments are more important than ever.

A key feature of this course is a 35-minute video in which Diana Kardia identifies key barriers to departmental resilience and describes five levels of resilience and strategies for taking your department to the next level.

Questions You May Have Course Objectives Course Outcomes Diana Kardia, PhD

1. How resilient is my department currently? What might it need to become more resilient?

2. Where do I see reactivity in my department? What causes it? How does it get mitigated?

3. What causes reactivity in me? How well do I mitigate my own reactivity?

1. Motivation: what is departmental resilience? why does it matter?

2. Perspective: 5 levels of resilience and what is possible with each

3. Understanding: what prevents the development of resilience?

4. Strategy: concrete ideas for building departmental resilience

1. Your assessment of your department's current level of resilience and strategies for taking it to the next level.

2. Strategies for decreasing reactivity and addressing barriers to resilience.

3. Insights about how to build your own capacity to lead resilience.

Diana Kardia is a subject matter expert on faculty careers, change strategies, academic departments, and what it takes for wildly diverse individuals to harness their collective expertise and experience into endeavors that advance knowledge, community, and the ability to solve the most vexing and important challenges we face.

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