Coaching for Senior Faculty

Senior faculty are leaders in the academy regardless of whether they ever choose to take on an administrative role. Leading through example, actions, committee work, mentorship, and new initiatives, they impact students, colleagues, departments, the school or college, and the larger university in a manner that sets the tone and defines the possibilities of the organization. For most faculty, this reality is learned as a trial by fire, or is ignored or resisted.

Leadership development coaching for senior faculty can serve a variety of goals:

Assessment and development of leadership skills and style, including managing people, delegation, consensus-building, meeting and project management, mentoring, working with department staff, communication and negotiation, etc.
Training in how to think strategically about the department, college, or university as an organizational system, including how to navigate the system, how to initiate change, how to leverage resources, etc.
Strategies on how to work effectively within the norms and expectations of academia
Personal goal setting (leadership role choices, research/teaching/service balance, career advancement)

Coaching contracts are available for individuals (who may pay out-of-pocket, or through designated university funding) or for departments, schools, colleges, or universities who wish to provide this as faculty development resource. With either approach, all coaching is conducted as a confidential relationship between the coach and the individual being coached.

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