LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS FOR DEPARTMENT HEADS

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS FOR DEPARTMENT
HEADS

• Joyce W. Yen, Sheila Edwards Lange, and Eve A.
  Riskin

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Objectives

• Describe UW ADVANCE Leadership Workshops
• Discuss a possible USU workshop series

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Leadership Development in SEM

• Educate SEM leaders about faculty professional
  development
• Build ownership for advancement among current
  and emerging UW leaders, especially women
• Educate SEM leaders about issues affecting women
  faculty

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Workshop Structure

• Chair-led case studies
• Quarterly workshop Department Chair plus Emerging
  Leader
• Science and Engineering departments
  cross-college boundaries

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Sample Workshop Agenda

• Overview Presentation (900 a.m. 915 a.m.)
• Topic 1 (915 a.m. 1030 a.m.)
• Break (1030 a.m. 1045 a.m.)
• Topic 2 (1045 a.m. noon)
• Networking Lunch
• (noon 1230 p.m.)

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Past Workshop Topics

• Dual Career Hires (4.6)
• Transition from Associate to Full Professor (4.6)
• Faculty Development Opportunities (4.4)
• Dealing with Difficult Faculty (4.4)
• Student Ratings of STEM Women Faculty (4.1)
• Feedback and Delivering Bad News (4.5)
• Family Leave and Tenure Clock Extentions (4.9)

• Nominating your Faculty for Awards and
  Recognition (5.0)
• Building Concensus among Your Faculty (4.6)
• Building Job Offers (4.8)
• Background and Data on Underrepresented Faculty
  (4.9)
• Implicit Association Test (4.2)
• Recruiting for Diversity (4.5)

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Sample Evaluation Comments

• Great workshop. Useful to bring issues to the
  forefront in a positive way to chairs who can
  actually make changes.
• Very useful. Learnt a lot about leadership
  role.
• Shared anecdotes helped elucidate commonalities
  (we are not alone!)
• As with previous workshops I gained added
  awareness of the issues discussed.

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UW 2-day National Summer Workshop for Department
Chairs

• July 28-29, 2005, UW campus
• Other institutions most welcome
• 325/participant, limited space available
• Register www.engr.washington.edu/advance/workshop
  s/NationalWorkshop/chair-workshop.html

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Select National Workshop Topics

• Faculty Recruitment and Retention
• Family-Friendly Faculty Policies
• Communications Skills
• Managing Up and Down

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Best Practices for Leadership Workshops

• Building buy-in
• Regular gatherings
• Vary discussion leaders
• Topics which chairs deal with on a regular basis
• Quarterly 3 hour block, 3X/year, optional lunch
• Build leadership pipeline invite emerging
  leaders

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Final Thoughts

• Chairs report these workshops are GREAT!
• They call it chair school
• Setting up a chair network is invaluable for dual
  career hires -- knowing each other means you
  wont have to make cold calls

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Discussion

• Would Utah State University Dept. Heads find a
  similar workshop series useful?
• If so, what are some suggested topics?