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Helping Gen Z Employees Succeed in the Higher Ed Workspace
Run a Good Meeting Please!
5 Lessons for Higher Ed’s Least Powerful Administrators
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness: Bringing Out the Best
Before You Move Into Senior Administration
The Administrator’s Dilemma
Deterring Passive Aggressive Behaviors in the Workplace
How to Lead From Anyplace in the Faculty Ranks
Keys to Cultivating Emotional Intelligence as a Department Chair
Helping Gen Z Employees Succeed in the Higher Ed Workspace
Higher ed leaders need to understand more about Gen Z and their workplace tendencies and preferences.
5 Lessons for Higher Ed’s Least Powerful Administrators
What department chairs can learn about leadership from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness: Bringing Out the Best
University leaders require a broad set of skills – from using data to creating long-term strategy – as well as the ability to adapt to changing times.
Before You Move Into Senior Administration
A new vice president shares five factors to consider as you weigh leaving faculty life.
The Administrator’s Dilemma
University administration has never been more difficult or demanding.
Deterring Passive Aggressive Behaviors in the Workplace
Workplace bullying includes more than overt behaviors that are immediately evident to the target of the bullying.
How to Lead From Anyplace in the Faculty Ranks
You need not be a chair, or even on the tenure track, to make a difference on your campus.
Keys to Cultivating Emotional Intelligence as a Department Chair
Learn about the "reactivity cycle." When we experience an event, we are triggered and the reaction-reward loop (top of image, in red) kicks in.
Learn Now Guides: Professional Development When You Want It
From the Center for Creative leadership (CCL), we recommend academic leaders follow the 70-20-10 rule when it comes to professional development. The Learn Now Guides are organized applying this framework:
- Challenging assignments and learning from experiences (70%)
- Developmental relationships and learning from others (20%)
- Reading, coursework and training (10%)
Use these at your convenience.
School Resources
Your Wellbeing Matters
How to Leverage Emotional, Social, and Cultural Intelligence to Enhance Professional Lives
Understanding Mindfulness and Emotional, Social, and Cultural Intelligence.
Go from "mind full" to mindful with free access to Headspace
GW has made this app available to faculty and staff to find calmness, wellness, and balance. You can learn the essentials of meditation and build from there.
Why a Psychologically Safe Work Environment Matters & How to Foster It
Research has repeatedly found that organizations benefit from diversity of thought, and groups of people with different life experiences are better able to recognize problems and offer up creative solutions than groups with similar life experiences.
Feeling Engaged and Energized: Rising Above Burnout
From a recent NCFDD newsletter, "Many of us have experiences of burnout periodically in our careers both as students and as faculty." This article gives you tips if you are experiencing burnout.
What we do and don't know about kindness
In recent years, psychologists have gained a deeper understanding of human kindness and its benefits, but as Claudia Hammond writes, there's still so much to explore.
How Leaders Get Through Tough Times
The answer is building resilience, the ability to cope, adapt, and persevere during challenging and stressful times. Based on our own experiences and the observations of others, we offer six resilience building strategies for direct and indirect leadership in higher education.
Practical Tips: Caring For Your and Your Team’s Wellbeing
Michelle McQuaid, wellbeing expert and best-selling author, who translates cutting-edge research in positive psychology and neuroscience into practical actions.
A neuroscientist shares the 6 exercises she does every day to build resilience and mental strength
Read for inspiration six daily exercises you can use to build resilience and mental strength.
Beating Burnout at Work
A first-of-its-kind, science-backed toolkit takes a holistic approach to burnout prevention by helping individuals, teams, and leaders build resilience and thrive at work.
Protecting Your Mental Health at Work
This is an episode from the Wharton Leading Diversity at Work podcast series -- if focuses on how to champion mental health and well-being in the aftermath of traumatic events.
5 Differences Between Mindfulness and Meditation
While mindfulness and meditation are interrelated, they are not the same. A basic understanding of the difference between these two concepts can help you to carve out a practice that meets your needs.
This is how to motivate yourself when you don’t feel like exercising
The PERMA model: Strategies for promoting workplace flourishing
Workplace happiness and well-being have received increasing attention, as organizations strive to address the challenges associated with employee stress and burnout. Universities are dedicated to creating positive workplace cultures that support the well-being of the faculty, staff, students and postdoctoral scholars.
The Science of Helping Out
5 Ways to Be a More Resilient Leader
Leaders need the emotional and physical resilience to manage through change and respond to critical incidents; yet, it is the everyday challenges that tap their emotions, drain their energy and redirect their attention.
Advice for Faculty Members in a Turbulent Time
Mindi Thompson gives some practical advice that leaders can use to support faculty (and themselves) as it relates to physical and mental health and wellness.
Good Work For Well-Being by Dan Goleman
Would you say you are generally happy? If so, would you say you have “well-being”? More to the point, are happiness and well-being the same? Learn what these questions might mean for you.
A Beginners Guide to Mindfulness in Academia
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