Principled Academic Leadership Tulane 2022
Principled Academic Leadership: Tulane 2022
General Reference Materials:
Session Ten: Capstone Case and Closing
Session date: May 3, 2023 at 12:00pm CST
Session Materials:
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Session Nine: Becoming a Leader Who Makes a Difference
Session Date: April 12 at 12:00 PM CST
Pre-Session Materials
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Homework Assigned:
- Prepare to discuss the Capstone Case at our next (final!) session.
- Review your journal and start an Independent Development Plan for how you will continue your growth as a leader.
Session Eight: Bullyproofing Academic Units
Session Date: March 8 at 12:00 PM CST
Meet Professor Major, Version 1:
- Review the second version of the Professor Major video below
- Make note of your thoughts on what the department chair learned in this program. What changes did he make to the interaction and its outcome
- Meet in a group to develop a list of skills you’ve acquired through this cohort program that you see being applied in the second version of Professor Major. Be prepared to report at our next session.
- Meet in a Critical Friends group: use an issue a member of your group is facing. If you would like a case study to discuss, please contact us and we will provide one for you.
Session Seven: Giving/Receiving Feedback
Session Date: February 15 at 12:00 PM CST
Pre-Session Reference Materials:
- Giving Performance Feedback: Quick Tips
- Sonya Stephens on Giving Feedback (3:10)
- Ed Feser on Giving Feedback (1:28)
- Kendall Zoller Role Play Evaluation 3rd Point (9:51)
- BrandE Faupell on Having Difficult Conversations (4:41)
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Homework Assigned:
- Take care of you and yours until we next meet.
- Use your Critical Friends to work on difficult feedback situations, whether giving or receiving. (Feedback is a gift.)
Session Six: Negotiation
Session Date: January 25 at 12:00 PM CST
- Please read “Are You the Doormat?”, the case study sent via email (marked with “READ ME” in the file name for clarity). We will be discussing this in breakout rooms later in the session and taking the time to read it ahead of time will give you more time to have meaningful group discussions.
- You have also been assigned one of two roles for a negotiation role play to be undertaken in pairs. Typically, these documents would be distributed the moment before beginning the exercise. To adapt to an online setting, we will be providing them now, so that you may print them out to have ready for the activity. We ask in the strongest terms that you please refrain from reading them beforehand. For clarity, I have marked these files with “PRINT ONLY” in the file name. The experience will be far more valuable and provide a better learning opportunity if you read their contents for the first time during the exercise.
Session Reference Materials:
- PAL – Negotiation Preparation Form
- PAL – Negotiation Summary
- Negotiating rationally: the power and impact of the negotiator’s frame, Bazerman & Neale, Academy of Management Executive, 1992 Vol. 6 No. 3DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/ame.1992.427418
Leadership Collection Resources:
- Negotiation Quick Tips
- Listening and Asking Questions Quick Tips
- Data and Managing Up (video below)
- Consider interactions you have that you now see as negotiations: what can do you do to improve your preparation for these conversations? Record them in your journal.
- Send us topics of difficult conversations around feedback you find challenging (next session is about giving and receiving feedback).
- Finish reading Crucial Conversations or Crucial Accountability to prepare for our session on giving and receiving feedback.
Session Five: Exploring Leadership
Session Date: December 07 at 12:00 PM CST
- Consider and identify a fundamental change occurring in your field and be prepared to describe how your unit will adapt to it. Consider the impact that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity had on Newtonian Physics, or the impact of genetic engineering on agriculture, or the introduction of satellites on meteorology. These are all examples of major paradigm shifts. Other changes are smaller in scale and still impactful. How you recognize and respond to these events is key to being a successful academic leader. Please prepare to discuss the fundamental changes occurring in your fields in breakout sessions.
- In addition, we ask that you remember to have your definition of leadership from our first session on hand and ready to discuss.
Pre-Session Materials:
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Homework Assigned:
Re-visit your definition of leadership and reflect on your strengths; how will you play to them? What would you like to focus on going forward? Record your thoughts in your journal.
- Do you see a paradigm shift in your field or institution? How will your leadership help your colleagues prepare for or react to it? Record your thoughts in your journal.
- Submit via email discussion questions or a topic you would like to discuss with the group from your reading of Crucial Conversations or Crucial Accountability (whichever you read).
Session Four: Difficult Conversations and Personal Scripts
Session Date: November 16 at 12:00 PM -2:00pm
Please be prepared to share your one-minute elevator pitch and to report back on your Critical Friends sessions.
We have attached the conflict self-assessment we sent once before. We ask that you continue to keep this in mind as you consider your conflict style and how you tend to react to difficult conversations. Among other topics we will cover, we will revisit your conflict comfort and style and introduce the And Stance, a powerful tool that grows out of work on influence and persuasion at the Harvard Project on Negotiation. The idea behind the And Stance is that ‘but’ is a stopper word in American English; the exercise is to practice moving to the And Stance, where you use “and” instead of “but” (or “however” or “although”)– without changing your message. If you have time to look over the exercise in advance, we can spend more time discussing and working on it during the session.
Pre-Session Materials:
Leadership Collection Reference Materials:
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Homework Assigned:
- Practice applying the And Stance in your everyday life. First, try to go one week without using “but” in an email, instead restructuring the statement with “and” to align with others. Then, try to go 24 hours without saying “but” at all. This is a very difficult and worthwhile exercise that helps make you aware of just how often you use stopper words and where you can change your approach.
- Select and continue to read a book of your choice to support your growth interests. Our team members are available for recommendations if you need any!
- Revisit your definition of leadership from the beginning of the program and update it, as appropriate.
Session Three: Vibrant Academic Units
Session Date: 10/26/22 at 12:00pm-1:30pm
We ask you to be prepared to discuss the AUDiT that you filled out for your unit along with the real or hypothetical situation you developed for use with a Critical Friends group. We have also attached a self-assessment document that we will be using during today’s session. Please download it to have at hand during our meeting.
As always, please make sure that you have your journals at hand. We will be asking you to refer back to them throughout the program.
Pre-Session Materials:
Homework Assigned:
- Create a ONE MINUTE or shorter elevator pitch for your unit, based in its purpose and mission.
- Find a book to support your professional development and growth interests
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Session Two: Critical Friends/Group Problem Solving
Pre-Session Materials:
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Homework Assigned:
- Develop a real or hypothetical situation to use in a Critical Friends Group
Session One: The Special Challenges of the Academic Environment
Pre-Session Materials:
Slide Deck Reference (for Personal Use Only):
Homework Assigned:
- Find attached the Testing Yourself exercise and take a few minutes to respond to the prompts within. We will discuss these prompts and share responses in our next session when we dive deeper into handling contentious situations like these.
- Also attached is a copy of the AUDiT Dashboard developed by NCPRE to help systematically assess the health of your department. Our observation has been that many leaders tend to focus on areas that they think are problematic. The AUDiT approach helps ensure that your assessment is comprehensive. Use the AUDiT table to score your unit. Start by putting a number in each cell – the more the cell describes your unit, the higher the number should be. In the green and red columns, scores run from 0 to 5; in the yellow column, it is 0 to 3. When you are finished, add up your green scores and subtract the totals from your yellow and red scores. We will be revisiting this tool throughout the course so please keep the original with your journal.