Faculty Workshops 2015-2016
Faculty Workshops 2015-2016
Below are brief descriptions of workshops designed for faculty. Details can be found on the Faculty Events Calendar
Biomedical Research Job Market and Faculty Perspectives
September 1, 2015, 3:00-5:00, Emory University
The goal of this session is to elevate faculty awareness of current data on the biomedical research job market, student preferences, and celebrate the broad range of careers a PhD in biomedically related fields can attain.
Part One: Current workforce situation with NPA, NIH, and NSF data, current insights, and recommendations
• Presented by expert researchers in PhD workforce data, Dr. Paula Stephans (Economist, GSU) and Dr. Henry Sauermann (Strategic Mgmt, Georgia Tech)
Part Two: Panel of Emory and GT faculty
• Where their non-academic trainees have gone
• In what ways did they support them/Challenges
• How institutions could better support faculty in this context
• Advice for PhD students and postdocs
Trainee Career Development: Non-Academic Job Search Tools, Strategies, and Resources
October 20, 2015, 3:00-5:00, Emory
October 22, 2015, 9:00-11:00, Georgia Tech
The goal of this session is to bring awareness to non-academic job search tools and career strategies to enable faculty to help their mentees, at a variety of levels of involvement, to facilitate career development and job search strategies
SciPhD will discuss critical transactional aspects of non-academic job applications, such as resumes, cover letters, and interviewing. Discussions will also touch on top professional competencies that PhD trainees should be practicing and refining as part of their PhD training.
Team Leadership: Birkman Method Self-Assessment on Motivations, Perceptions and Strengths
November 10, 2015 2:30-5:30Emory
December 8, 2015 2:30-5:30Georgia Tech
The goal of this session is for faculty to gain knowledge about their effective work styles, motivations, and strengths by introducing the Birkman Method. Through the Birkman Method, a self- assessment tool, personalized reports are used to give faculty diverse perspectives on styles, needs and interests that affect productivity of teams and collaborations. Short video about the Birkman.
Participants will gain a better understanding of
• How to work with difficult people and appreciate diverse workstyles
• Communication styles and needs
• Collaboration relationships and interests
• Approaches to success
• Coaching styles and needs
Research Leadership: Situational Leadership
February 25, 2016, 1:00-5:00 Georgia Tech
Situational Leadership is a model for developing people. It creates a common language for talking about leadership. The goal of situational leadership is to meet people where they are and to give them the direction and support they need when they need it. Facilitated by a Senior Training Consultant at Emory University- Learning and Organization Development.
This workshop comes with a Leadership Self-Assessment to better enable participants to make use of the material. Participants will be able to use three skills of a Situational Leader – flexibility, diagnosis, and partnering for performance – to respond more effectively to the needs of the people they manage Situational Leadership enables leaders to:
• Open up communication – increase the frequency and quality of conversations about performance and development between you and the people you work with
• Help others develop competence and commitment
• Teach others how to provide their own direction and support
Research Leadership: Conflict Management
March 23, 2016, 12:30-4:30 Emory
This session will highlight the vital role of working through conflict and how it affects individual and organizational productivity. It will feature a widely-used self-assessment called the Thomas Kilmann Instrument (TKI) for Conflict Management. Participants will better understand their strengths, areas for development, and construct a personal action plan for managing conflict in their own settings.
The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKITM) tool is the number one best-selling instrument for conflict management. This easy-to-use, self-scorable assessment, complete with interpretation and feedback materials, helps individuals discover which of five conflict-handling styles--competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating--is their preferred "mode."
Participants also learn about the most appropriate uses for each conflict-handling style and how to increase their comfort level with their less used styles. The TKI delivers a pragmatic, situational approach to conflict resolution, change management, leadership development, and communication. Facilitated by Dr. Michael Sacks, Vice Provost, Emory University Strategies; Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management
Team Leadership: Birkman Method Self-Assessment on Motivations, Perceptions and Strength Behaviors
May 18, 9:00-12:00, Emory
For those who haven’t taken the Birkmam before. The goal of this session is for faculty to gain knowledge about their effective work styles, motivations, and strengths by introducing the Birkman Method. Through the Birkman Method, a self- assessment tool, personalized reports are used to give faculty diverse perspectives on styles, needs and interests that affect productivity of teams and collaborations. Short video about the Birkman.
Participants will gain a better understanding of
• How to work with difficult people and appreciate diverse workstyles
• Communication styles and needs
• Collaboration relationships and interests
• Approaches to success
• Coaching styles and needs
Mentoring Challenges and Leveraging your Birkman
May 18, 1:00-4:00, Emory
This session will be for faculty who have already taken the Birkman Assessment. Utilizing participants customer reports, the goals are to give faculty tools and perspectives on the following:
• How to deal with mentee meltdowns
• Explore and compare different approaches to mentoring
• Discuss dynamics of relationships
• Gain insight on how to be a more effective mentor