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Conflict

Dealing with Conflict: What’s the Best Way?

There is no one ideal way of dealing with conflict. The best response is well matched to the situation and may involve multiple approaches over time. The best way to deal with conflict emerges from a familiarity with the options,…
Faculty Careers, Promotion & Tenure

What Changes with Tenure?

Achieving tenure is a, often the, major milestone in the span of an academic career. But what changes with tenure? How do the pre- and post-tenure landscapes differ? For too many faculty the answer can be mired in too many…
Faculty Careers

The Importance of Faculty Transitions

The primary stages of a tenure track career are predictable, marked by a small number of highly significant transitions: the degree, an academic position, tenure, promotion, and retirement. Other momentous faculty transitions include changing institutions, shifting research directions, and stepping…
Faculty Careers

Why Some Faculty Choose Administration

Interest in administrative roles is often held with suspicion by academics. And yet, many high functioning faculty find themselves well-suited to leadership and wonder how they might do more. In fact, academic institutions and disciplines thrive only because of this…
Promotion & Tenure

What Changes at Promotion to Full Professor?

Does anything change at the promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor? When asked, the first response of most faculty is “it’s just like any other day.” Some even feel that’s just the way it should be. For many faculty,…
Communication, Conflict

Start with Heart – Ok, but which one?

One of the foundational pieces of the Crucial Conversations ** paradigm for dealing with conflict is: Start with Heart. One translation of that is the question, what do I want?  Or, what do I really want? There is invariably a layered…
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