Description:

The Essential Skills for Leading Departments lunch series equips chairs with the knowledge and skills they need for success, including proactively working to enhance department culture and managing conflict to ensure the success and retention of faculty and staff, as well as of students.

Participants will learn:

-Skills and tactics for building trust, communications, and community for faculty colleagues in your department
-The components of high-quality communications and best practices for creating connections and respectful engagement
-Chair’s leadership role in creating a thriving community in which people work together well. 
-How to rebuild community ties which have been broken during COVID and recreate expectations for respect and trust