Coaching
Meet the Kardia Group Affiliated Coaches
Launched November 2020: Faculty Women of Color Coaching Group
Being women faculty of color on a predominantly white and male campus can impact many aspects of the faculty experience. Invisible labor, unconscious bias, tokenism, skewed student evaluations and expectations, and other challenges can threaten both satisfaction and success. This faculty women of color coaching group is an opportunity to join with faculty of color colleagues and a coach experienced with the realities of race, ethnicity, and gender in academic careers to provide support, resources, and perspective. Specific topic emphasis will be determined by participant experience.Kardia Group coaching services are a unique resource provided by experts in leadership development, faculty careers, and organizational strategy in academia. We provide coaching for faculty, staff, and administrators at various levels within the academic institution. Coaching brings focused resources to support the coaching client’s ability to develop the specific skills he or she needs in context. Because Kardia Group specializes in work with the academic environment, we bring very specific knowledge related to demands at every level of academia.
“The term ‘leadership’ really applies to day-to-day interactions with students, colleagues, and administrators as well, like a code of ethical behavior that is practiced rather than preached. The process is a good opportunity to reflect on this and discuss experiences, good or bad.”
Coaching for faculty, staff, and administrators
- Career Development Coaching
Career and leadership coaching for faculty addresses many facets of faculty careers. These include productivity, priority-setting, career transitions, and making change. - Leadership Coaching
Our coaching for faculty and staff in formal leadership roles works with a variety of leadership skills and concerns, from leadership style to strategic relationships and planning to time management strategies. We work with department chairs, deans, provosts, presidents, and other senior staff or executive-level administrators. - Individual Assessments
We work with several standard assessment instruments to look at conflict styles, leadership skills, team-building, and more. In addition, we specialize in customized 360 evaluations.
Online leadership assessments
Customized 360 assessment - Group Coaching (2 or more individuals)
Group coaching for faculty, administrators, and staff helps to build broader understanding and support. This coaching we design especially to develop networks among individuals in similar role definitions, and to bridge the gap between business and academic goals of the institution. What topics would you be interested in discussing at a faculty coaching group? Read more and share your input here.
Coaching formats
| Type of Coaching | Number of Sessions | Time Period and Examples |
| Assessment-focus | 1-3 sessions | over a 1-2 month period 3-session Leadership Development featuring the CPI 260® assessment 3-session Leadership Awareness featuring the MBTI® instrument |
| Development-focus | 4-12 sessions | over a 6-12 month period
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| Strategy-focus | as needed | multi-year coaching services tailored to situational and development needs |
Coaching sessions
Coaching sessions typically address:
- Personal goal setting (leadership role choices, research/teaching/service balance, work/life balance, career advancement).
- Training in how to think strategically about organizational realities, including how to navigate the system, how to initiate change, how to leverage resources, etc.
- Assessment and development of leadership skills and style, including:
- managing people; delegation; working with department staff
- consensus-building
- meeting and project management,
- mentoring
- communication and negotiation, etc.
- Problem solving regarding specific situations, people, and other challenges.
- Strategies for negotiating the ways that social identity (gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) can impact the experiences of individuals and of departments.
- Strategies to work effectively within the norms and expectations of academia.
For more information about coaching for you as an individual,
please see our short coaching services or contact us.
For more information about institutionally funded coaching services, please contact us.
