Practical Leadership for University Scholars

Learning Objectives:

• Describe common leadership styles.
• Describe leadership pitfalls and solutions experienced by people with personalities similar to your own.
• Conduct a personal wellness audit.
• Conduct a personal leadership skill audit.
• Develop a strategic plan to guide your own leadership development.

Explores your leadership identity; how it changes under crisis; how to leverage your strengths, and how to be intentional about growth opportunities.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore and refine the mandate of your initiative/project.
• Get buy-in from key stakeholders for your projects.
• Describe the key elements of successful teams and create plans to strengthen your own team.
• Hold important conversations about difficult issues.

Focused on bringing your projects to life. Participants will role-play through challenging scenarios, examine their own projects, and receive and offer peer consultations.

Learning Objectives:

• Set up committees for success.
• Run effective and efficient meetings.
• Manage your time to focus on priorities.
• Effectively manage your team.

This four-part virtual course is designed for those who lead committees, meetings, manage time as a leaders, or who manage personnel in a unionized environment. It focuses on enhancing your technical skills in administrative leadership. For all those who have worked their way up to a leadership role but still feel like there are activities they need to engage in that they've never been taught how to do.

This four-part program is designed for those leading educational units, programs, or initiatives. Over multiple days, you will focus on enhancing your skills in educational strategy and building your competencies in curriculum development and review. You will also explore program evaluation, get some time to role-play handling tricky educational issues, and more.

This new program is for leaders interested in incorporating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action into their work.

This is a four-part virtual course and is open to those who currently hold leadership roles in CSM or AHS. This is an intensive course which will involve some pre-work in order to get the most out of your class time. It will ask you to interrogate your own beliefs while giving you tools to make meaningful change.

Developed and facilitated entirely by women in a wide variety of CSM and AHS leadership roles. This program is open to current and emerging women leaders looking to build leadership competencies in a course created and led by women. This is an in-depth course which will involve pre- and post- work to maximize your learning. Topics include (but are not limited to): gender inequities in academia, balance and wellness, finding your voice, coaching, making opportunities, adaptive leadership, and inclusive leadership.