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Clarifying My Path
There are few prescribed career paths in academia.
Meanwhile, many faculty (too many, in our opinion) describe leadership either as something to avoid or as something that "just happens" - something they stumbled into or that someone had to do (and they drew the short straw).
And when faculty start approaching the concept of retirement? The terrain gets even more disorienting.
We think that everyone is better off (faculty, students, institutions, and disciplines) when faculty are able to navigate their careers through more conscious and deliberate choices.
This two-part small group workshop helps you identify your priorities, boundaries, and strategies to clarify your path and achieve a greater level of satisfaction and more meaningful influence in your career.
Upon enrollment, you'll have immediate access to the first half of Understand (Spheres of) Faculty Leadership. Please complete all modules before the first workshop date.
At our first meeting, we'll discuss what you learned as you reflected on your four spheres of experience in your own career and the new questions now arising.
Following this meeting, you'll have access to the second half of the course which examines intersections across the four spheres. You'll have 3 weeks between sessions to complete these modules
During our second meeting, we'll discuss what this course has illuminated about your career to date and how this informs the next steps on your path.
Saturday Sessions: All the above but slightly rearranged so we can do it all in one day.
When we talk about leadership, we aren’t just referring to the head of a department, school or university. In academia, leadership encompasses the everyday skills associated with teaching, running a lab, mentoring students and peers, participating in meetings, applying for funds, etc.
Leadership is so ubiquitous across every aspect of the faculty role that almost no one recognizes it as such.
In fact, assessment results from the hundreds of faculty who have taken the CPI 260 with us demonstrate that faculty at all ranks have a profile that is much more similar to business leaders than the general population.
There is a myth in academia that leadership=administration=the dark side. In truth, leadership is neither optional nor problematic for faculty. Leadership is the warp and weft of a career that is designed to move thought, knowledge, perspective, technology, policy, practice, product, governance, commerce, peers, society, and students in directions that matter.