Category: Leadership
REframe Series: Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads
Guest expert Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara shares insights about how faculty labor is taken up, assigned and rewarded.
Oct 15, 2021
Prepare Yourself and Your Teams for What’s Ahead As we adapt to the changes left in the wake of the pandemic, we are presented with a unique opportunity to redefine and future-proof our work. The abilities, talents, and accomplishments that helped us land our positions at UNMC are effective—they worked! But, with our rapidly evolving […]
Oct 8, 2021
REframe Series: Strategies to Diversify Your Faculty Search
Increased creativity, faster problem solving, and higher innovation are just a few of the benefits of a diverse workforce. These qualities are essential in health science education, where the ultimate goal is to improve health and patient outcomes. However, finding diverse candidates to interview is the number one barrier to diversifying the workplace. What strategies […]
Oct 7, 2021
Faculty Search Committee Guidebook and Toolkit This document was created to provide guidelines for search committees at UNMC. It also serves as a guide to foster active dialogue on how to instill better, more inclusive hiring practices. It contains best practices and tips from across colleges and departments within UNMC as we strive to attract […]
Oct 6, 2021
Take It Outside: Resolving Conflicts When You Can’t
Remember as a kid when you were rough-housing or arguing in the house and your mom or dad told you to take it outside? Turns out that there is some neuroscience evidence that they were probably right for a very important reason! Remember as a kid when you used Rock, Paper, Scissors to resolve your […]
Mar 11, 2021
Making Anti-Racism an Institutional Priority
This session was offered as part of the 2020-2021 Breakthrough Thinking Virtual Series Academic medicine must take steps to dismantle structural racism and make anti-racism a core value. UNMC welcomes the challenge and has taken steps to create sustainable change and a more inclusive culture. Watch this session to learn more about structural racism and […]
Jan 20, 2021
Storytelling as a Critical Leadership Strategy
When Facts and Data Aren’t Enough – Tell a Story A powerful story has the ability to teach, influence, and inspire. What makes storytelling so effective? Storytelling forges connections and draws people together, which is more important now than ever before. Humans are wired to respond to a good story. Storytelling is effective not only for […]
Jan 15, 2021
Getting Past Discomfort: Mitigating Bias to Become Upstanders in Healthcare
Take a Stand Against Bias and Structural RacismBe an Upstander, Not a Bystander You’ve heard the age-old adage, “you can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” The central message is a basic quality of the human experience – empathy. Empathy is key to relating to the feelings or experiences of others. […]
Dec 11, 2020
Constructive Collaboration: Using Student Feedback and Peer Coaching to Improve Teaching
The rapid changes and advancements of today’s world continue to present new challenges in education. Success in 2020 is achieved, in part, by being skilled at adapting and evolving based on the demands of society. Health science education and academic medical centers are not exempt from this reality. Educators must continue to create processes that […]
Feb 14, 2020
Coaching for Executives: Investing in Talent Development
As a faculty member in the upper ranks of the organization, you’ll often be delegating tasks and assignments to your employees. To do so, you’ll need a firm understanding on how to lead, coach, and motivate others toward accomplishing goals. Certified coach Rob Kramer presents the tools needed to be an effective leader and a source of […]
Feb 26, 2018
