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De-Escalating Faculty Meetings

Format: Asynchronous/Video
Time: 45-60 minutes on your own

Faculty meetings can set the tone, address difficult topics, and focus the attention and capacity of faculty (and sometimes staff and students, as well) on the collective needs and realities of the department.

But when tensions are high, faculty meetings can become the site for departmental struggle and strife. Factions solidify as alliances are drawn or broken, issues become personalized, and meetings become a battleground between structural authority and the power of voice, position, or personality.

This course features a 30-minute video in which Diana Kardia describes specific strategies to keep faculty meetings on track, proactively prevent unproductive escalations, and invest in the full participation of a wide range of perspectives.

1. How can we have better faculty meetings?

2. Why is it so difficult to talk about some things in faculty meetings?

3. How can we stop having the same conversations over and over again?

                Or even…

4. Is it possible to have faculty meetings I don’t dread going to?

1. Motivation: why faculty meetings matter

2. Perspective: what if people were glad to come to a meeting?

3. Understanding: conflict as an aspirational goal

4. Strategy: techniques for keeping meetings on track

>  Clarity about types and purposes of faculty meetings.

>  Concrete strategies for promoting effective discussion and conflict.

>  Tools that any faculty member can use to improve meetings - at any rank and in any role.

 

 

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.
Price: $59.00
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