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A New Mission

March 5, 2020

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…

Academic Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Celebrating Faculty Leaders: Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

November 30, 2018

In Fall of 2018, NSF received the final summary report on TECAID, Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity, an NSF-funded project awarded to the Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN) in collaboration with the American Society of Mechanical…

Focused coaching conversation for leadership development

CPI 260, MBTI Assessment, Short Coaching

What is Short Coaching?

August 22, 2017

The short answer? Short coaching provides a concentrated opportunity to work with an expert in academia, leadership, and professional development. Faculty, administrators, and staff may engage in this type of coaching for several purposes. They may, for example, want a…

Academic Culture, CPI 260

The Insightful Empathic Faculty

June 27, 2017

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 this post we’re…

Academic Culture, CPI 260

Are Faculty Good Managers?

May 30, 2017

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. Today we’re looking at…

Academic Culture, CPI 260, Faculty Productivity

The Flexible Faculty

May 2, 2017

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. How does Flexibility relate…

CPI 260, Faculty Careers, Faculty Productivity, Leadership

Faculty Productivity Revisited

March 8, 2017

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…

Academic Culture, CPI 260, Faculty Careers, Leadership

The Peculiarities of Academic Leadership, Introduction

January 17, 2017

Our work with faculty, using the CPI 260® assessment, shows us some of the unique shapes of academic leadership. We use the CPI assessment in much of our leadership-focused coaching with faculty, staff, and higher administration. The 260-question online assessment…

Academic Culture, Organizational Change

The Challenges of Making Change in Academia, Part III

January 4, 2017

Change requires coordination across roles. Faculty and staff have broadly different foci, duties, and goals, as well as different levels and kinds of power within the institution and in relation to each other. Faculty and staff sometimes find it difficult…

Faculty Careers, Promotion & Tenure

What Changes with Tenure?

October 12, 2016

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…

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