Why Long Emails Don’t Help Departmental Tensions (5 minute coaching)
Diana takes a quick look at inflammatory responses in the human body to illuminate the differences between helpful responses to departmental tensions and those that are not.
Faculty Careers
Navigating Together: Support and Strategy Sessions for Higher Ed
Navigating Together: Support and Strategy With the new federal administration’s changes to funding agencies and so on, we are all in uncharted territory. Kardia Group has teamed up with Crystal Clear Consulting to offer virtual space (via Zoom) for those…
Transformational Education for Academics: Learn.KardiaGroup
Transformational Education for Academics: A New Way Kardia Group has been providing transformational education for academics for many years through our coaching, consulting, workshops, retreats, facilitation, and other programs. We’re now in the process of creating an additional way to…
A New Mission
We’ve been pondering the question: Is academia worth it? It’s because of deadlines and emails accumulating until there’s no time left at all, faculty meetings that go nowhere or make things worse, toxic colleagues that no one seems able to…
Ruminations from Diana
I’m organizing a coaching group, or a community dialogue, or a respite space, or maybe it’s a revolution. It’s a way to respond to the growing number of faculty who contact us with the question, “Is this worth it?” They…
Do Faculty Do Enough for Diversity?
I confess: the title of this blog is playing by the rules of popular media, not academia. It’s meant to stir the pot and attract attention by invoking a whole host of reactionary questions… Should faculty do anything for diversity?…
Faculty Experiences with Coaching
“When I signed up for coaching, I didn’t know how this would help. I’ve been pleasantly surprised, especially by how helpful it’s been to talk things through – and for the ways it’s shown me where my head was stuck…
Leadership Development for Graduate Students
There are a lot of benefits to taking the CPI 260® assessment in the early stages of your career. This assessment provides a reflection of your leadership skill strengths and areas for development. But, you are a graduate student, recent…
The Responsible Faculty
This series of posts describes what we’ve learned about the peculiarities of leadership in academia based on our work with the CPI 260® leadership assessment. See the introduction to this series for background on this assessment. The last two posts…
Faculty Productivity Revisited
This series of posts describes what we’ve learned about the peculiarities of leadership in academia based on our work with the CPI 260® leadership assessment. See the introduction to this series for background on this assessment. In our last post…