Category: Career Development
From Suck to Success: Enhancing the Performance Feedback Experience
Few people enjoy delivering feedback on poor performance and many leaders underestimate the value of feedback to high performers. But feedback is essential to advancing our collective efforts to their highest potential. Visiting faculty, Dr. Mary Sand, has built leadership development programs including a leadership academy for physicians. Her decades of experience as a health care leader and […]
Feb 13, 2025
Strategic Planning Got You Down?
Clear vision for the future? ✅Plan to make progress? ✅Sense of the bigger picture? ✅ Have we gotten ahead of you?If you lack any of these things, you’re in good company. In today’s world, you need to calibrate for what’s ahead not what’s here now. Take the pain and doom away from your Strategic Planning and Change processes, and learn how to build […]
Feb 5, 2025
WorkSmart: AI as an Educator’s Creative Companion – A Beginner’s Guide
This beginner-friendly session designed specifically for educators will demystify the use of AI tools like ChatGPT, showcasing how they can transform how you prepare and deliver your courses – as well as assist with other tasks in the faculty workflow. Discover how to harness these tools to enhance learning experiences, improve efficiency, and spark creativity. You’ll leave with […]
Jan 31, 2025
Your Inbox is a perpetual disaster. It’s not hopeless. Attend this session to unlock strategies and little-known hacks for inner-peace with your inbox! Featuring expertise from:Mike Kozak, MEd, IT Academic TechnologiesKaren Gould, PhD, Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
Jan 24, 2025
Your brand is a combination of the quality of your actual work, as well as what people know of how you do your work. It’s the super not-so-secret sauce that sets you apart from the rest of the world. Knowing, (re)shaping, and projecting your brand will elevate your career success by helping you selectively approach projects and advocate for […]
Dec 11, 2024
Protected: Power & Politics at Work – 2025 cohort
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Dec 4, 2024
WorkSmart: Stoplight Strategy for Surviving Your Day
Do you ever find yourself feeling frantic about the day ahead? Do unforeseen circumstances throw off your flow, and chip away at your wellbeing? You’re not alone! Some days, to THRIVE is merely to SURVIVE. Dr. Jayme Dowdall, clinician educator, has systematized the STOPLIGHT Strategy to help her team stay afloat (and yes, thrive!) on […]
Nov 22, 2024
It’s never too early to start preparing for your advancement. It’s never too often to calibrate your progress. Hear from institutional experts on how to succeed in the promotion and tenure process. COM P&T policies have updated as of April 2024 – get the scoop on what’s new! Dig Deeper!In a recent Faculty Factory podcast […]
Nov 15, 2024
Does Anybody Have a Map? Career Wayfinding
Are you an early faculty wondering which of the myriad options will set course for your “best” career?Have you reached Associate Professor, and now wondering how you’ll navigate the tradeoffs between career and family obligations?Do you ever find yourself enticed by an opportunity, only to wonder what’s behind Door Number 2? It may be daunting to navigate the myriad options for your “best” […]
Oct 30, 2024
Presentations are a core function in academia — ensure yours are memorable.Communication is an important determinant of job retention, pay scale, and advancement. Presentations are a high stakes means of communicating ideas, science, knowledge, and change, and are a core function in academic life. Key Contributors: Faye Haggar, EdDMichael Smith, MDChad Branecki, MDMartina Clarke, PhDTJ […]
Oct 8, 2024
