Seminar Topics

The Culture of Academia:

  • Collegiality and Critique: If Ever the Twain Shall Meet
  • How to Survive in a Culture of Ceaseless Surveillance
  • Dealing with Conflict: The Secret to an Academic Long Life
  • The Imposter Syndrome and Other Anxieties of Intelligence
  • Staff as the Change Agents of the University

Leadership Development:

  • Leadership Styles: Their Strengths, Challenges, and Uses
  • Herding Cats and Watering Horses: How to Lead Faculty
  • The Pros and Cons of Academic Administration

Change Management:

  • Setting a Vision and Leading Change
  • Assessing the Goals and Scope of Change
  • Building Consensus and Effecting Real Change

Getting Down to Basics:

  • Bare Bones Professionalism: The rules that apply no matter how casual or creative the environment
  • How and When to Say No
  • Time Management
  • Mentoring: Best Practice Models
  • Running a Meeting that's Worth Attending

Specialty Topics:

  • Clinician-Academician: Keeping both people and ideas alive