OCTOBER 10 – Module 1 – Take Control of Your Mission: Life After Promotion with Academic Coach Meggin McIntosh
You expend a tremendous amount of energy every day doing the work that you do and keeping up with your personal commitments. What if you could expend the same amount of energy – and make an even bigger impact through your work? Or, what if you could reduce the overall energy you expend and not reduce the overall impact you have?
In the inaugural workshop of the ASCEND program, you and your colleagues will:
- Identify your most significant strengths.
- Learn some of the nuances of those strengths.
- Begin to recognize what it looks and feels like when you’re operating from the “balcony” and when you’re operating from the “basement” of your strengths.
- Strategize ways to employ your knowledge about strengths in all aspects of your life.
When you operate without capitalizing on your unique strengths and talents, your “system” suffers from that stress and strain. Your system includes physical, intellectual, and emotional components and it includes your networks and relationships.
Let’s make sure you are able to bring your insights about your strengths to your collaborations, commitments, and career trajectory.
NOVEMBER 13 – Module 2 – Writing Your Next Chapter with Dr. Mindi Thompson (NCFDD)
In the Writing Your Next Chapter workshop, Dr. Mindi Thompson will outline the most common issues mid-career faculty face and provide participants with strategies for identifying where they are stuck and how to move forward in their intellectual projects.
DECEMBER 4 – Module 3 – Academic Decluttering Workshop with Academic Coach Meggin McIntosh
When you look at your calendar, how do you feel? When someone else sees your calendar, what do they think? Have you thought about the ways that your calendar both represents and determines your productivity and leadership? People have said that this workshop changed their lives. It can if you let it.
Our November ASCEND workshop will give you the opportunity to:
- Examine your current calendar through the lens of courageous leadership and productivity.
- Adjust your upcoming calendar to enhance your chances for more peaceful, predictable productivity.
- Determine options when everything you want to do, need to do, have to do won’t fit. (Note: It won’t all fit so you have to have options.)
- Commit to using the “lowly” calendar as a tool for the highest work you’ve been called to do.
Let’s reduce any calendar chaos you may feel (as well as the calendar chaos those around you feel when your calendar has run amuck). Everyone benefits.
JANUARY 8 – Module 4 – Academic Project Planning: Prepare, Proceed, Pivot with Academic Coach Meggin McIntosh
Whether you know it – or have acknowledged it – or not, you have between 10 and 100 ongoing and unfinished projects. You probably never took a project management class in graduate school or since then. It’s about time you had the opportunity to take one that is especially for academics.
Hunks, Chunks, & Bites: Academic Project Planning for People Who Want to Get Things Done!
When you apply what you learn in this ½-day workshop that is part of the ASCEND program, you will:
- Get clear on what projects you have (and it will surprise you);
- Know your next steps – and when you will take those steps (without feeling overwhelmed);
- Be poised to ask for (and receive) help, assistance, and support on your projects; and
- Build the momentum to move projects to completion (even ones that have been ‘lingering’ for weeks, months, or years).
Let’s work together to help you plan for and complete your academic projects.
FEBRUARY 12 – Module 5 – The Ethics of Wellness and Self-Care: Strategies for Stress Relief and Healthy Living with Dr. Kathryn Belle
Dr. Kathryn Sophia Belle, an academic executive coach and associate professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, will lead a workshop on wellness and self-care that offers strategies for faculty health and wellness.
MARCH 13 – Module 6 –The Next Level: Engaging the University to Support Your Efforts
Presentation of university resources to support and maximize faculty professional development and career goals. Our speakers include Celina Flowers (Provost’s Office – Faculty Development), Karen Cielo (Research Development), Susan Dauber (Foundations), and Anahit Gomistan (Faculty Honors).
APRIL 10 – Module 7 – Focus. Leverage. Impact. Maximize What Matters with Strategic Delegation with Dr. Meggin McIntosh
We end our year-long series with an online, interactive workshop from Northwestern’s Global Marketing team on the strategies and opportunities that faculty can foster to widely publicize and promote their research projects to various audiences.