NCCI offers various types of online education—free for anyone on your campus through your NCCI membership.
NCCI’s Power60 webinars are hour-long discussions led by higher education thought leaders. Power60s are held monthly and open to all. While there are no fees for NCCI member campuses, registration is necessary. Past topics included Cultural Humility and Intercultural Praxis, Creating a Culturally Responsive and Validated Leadership Framework, and Change Management and your Process Improvement Project.
Resilience at Work: June 6, 1pm Eastern
Resilience got a bad name during the pandemic, with many university employees reporting feeling like a frog who went for a nice soak and wound up as dinner. Fast forward a few years, and higher education’s attempts to focus on wellness appear largely ineffective at addressing the wave of employee disengagement and disillusionment. In this session, we will dive into a research-backed model of whole person resilience at work: what goes into it and how institutions can support it. Because employee resilience – especially the individual resilience of leaders – has a demonstrable impact on retention, recruitment, engagement and productivity. Resilient leaders, those in the classroom, the laboratory, or the administrative suite, help their teams sustain performance during times of high pressure, complexity, and change. The Resilience at Work framework offers leaders at all levels of an organization practical strategies to create and sustain a culture of resilience in the workplace.
Learning outcomes:
- Discover the seven interrelated elements of resilience at work.
- Delve into the connection between your institution’s mission, vision, and values and employee resilience.
- Learn strengths-based approaches to promote your own resilience and model that in your workplace.
- Understand the significance of leader resilience – in mindset, body and action – for the resilience of your institution
Learning Together to Transform Higher Education
The Exchange is an online networking opportunity for NCCI members to share ideas, tools, and best practices relating to the topic of change, innovation, strategy, and/or leadership development. As a result of participating in these sessions, participants will strengthen relationships with peers, grow their knowledge, and become better equipped to transform higher education institutions as change leaders.
Leading Change in Higher Education: Virtual Workshop presented by AASCU and NCCI and sponsored by ModernThink
May 23, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern
This program is sponsored by
The higher education environment continues to evolve in new and often unpredictable ways. The challenges are varied and constantly evolving, from the changing landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion to the declining enrollments and corresponding budget realignments and waning public support for higher education. Leaders must be prepared to lead in this unsettling environment and continue to move their institutions forward. It is more important now than ever that higher education leaders have the tools they need to drive proactive and strategic change on campus. This virtual workshop will highlight the Change Leadership Toolkit (CLT), a step-by-step, research-based guidebook for leaders engaged in projects that touch multiple departments, divisions, or units and require deep and meaningful changes to policies, procedures, norms, and cultures. The CLT was developed by Susan Elrod, Adrianna Kezar, and Angel de Jesus Gonzalez and published by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. The benefits of participation in this program include:
- Identify your own leadership role and agency in leading change at your institution.
- Gain practical tools for immediate use in your daily work.
- Understand change context, change levers, and change leader moves that effect meaningful and sustained change.
- Explore case studies from leaders who used the Change Leadership Toolkit.
- Connect with colleagues leading change at their institutions.
About the Speaker:
Jennifer Askey is an individual and group academic coach with over 25 years of experience in higher education in the U.S. and Canada. Her career has included work experience all over the academic map as both faculty and staff. Her last academic role was collaborating the Office of the Provost and Human Resources to create leadership and professional/personal development programs for Chairs, Vice Deans, and Deans. As a coach, she helps her clients achieve clarity around the impact they want to have as an academic and the habits they need to develop to reach their goals. Jennifer enjoys leveraging assessments for individual and team clients to boost their self-awareness around key workplace behaviors and motivators. In service of helping universities become the best possible workplaces, she brings focus to the humans and their systems. Her work with clients is grounded in the client’s value system and their self-awareness. A core of her coaching philosophy is to help clients establish patterns of noticing and recognition around self-sabotaging behaviors and to choose more resonant and empowering options. Mindfulness and emotional intelligence form the foundation for much of her coaching work, as does an intersectional feminist lens on work-life issues. Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Washington University in St. Louis.