The best leaders know themselves well. This session is designed to either begin or accelerate your process of self-awareness. We first identify the most critical factors that influence effectiveness. Then, each participant completes an inventory to diagnose individual styles and identify the strengths and liabilities associated with the various styles. The session then explores ways to expand your inventory of styles and understand how styles can fit administrative responsibilities.
Special emphasis is placed on career development and mentoring relationships.
Through description, simulation, and case studies, this session highlights vital skills of anticipation and strategy in dealing with conflict. Inevitably, though, some situations evolve into full-scale crises, a few of which can shake the very foundations of institutions and threaten the careers of leaders within them. At this point, administrators must calmly consider a variety of strategies and then take effective action. Through case studies and intense interaction, participants take part in, and critique, actual situations of intense crisis. This session deals with the larger context of policy and financing for higher education.