Personal Effectiveness as an Academic Leader

To be a successful senior university leader is challenging in today's environment. Pressures to perform and to be accountable are intensifying with increasing demands coming from a complex web of internal and external stakeholders. To be effective in this rapidly changing and often conflicting environment requires high levels of energy, enthusiasm and emotional intelligence, as well as considerable personal resilience.

The workshop content has drawn on the literature relating to Leadership in an Academic context with special reference to Paul Ramsden's work on "Leading in Higher Education" and will include discussions on the key challenges faced by academic leaders. These may include some or all of the following topics, according to the needs of the group on the day

• The changing cultures and nature of leadership in Universities
• The need for constant role flexibility
• Balancing research, teaching and administrative roles
• Maintaining quality with fewer resources
• Leading learning and teaching especially with larger class sizes and students with changing expectations
• Managing workloads within a curriculum and motivating academic staff torn between their roles as teachers, researchers and administrators
• Leading in research

Workshop aims:

• Explore with colleagues the ever changing demands, pressures and challenges of being a senior academic leader
• Identify the key leadership, management and technical (academic) roles necessary in order to harness your own and other's full potential
• Appreciate the importance of self-leadership and management in maximising their own performance especially when working under pressure
• Develop practical strategies and processes for:
  - managing complex and sometimes competing demands
  - allocating time most effectively
  - building and maintaining a high sense of self-worth
  - positively managing your own and others anxiety and stress responses

Presenter

Humphrey Armstrong is an Organisational Psychologist who has extensive experience in working with academics and professional service providers (accountants, lawyers and engineers) to enhance their personal effectiveness and ability to enjoy what they do.

He has worked with senior academic staff at UNSW, USQ, University of Sydney and the University of Wollongong.

He is an adjunct Faculty Member with the Australian Graduate School of Management and is a co-author of Developing Management Skills (3rd edition) published by Pearson Education Australia in 2005.

Target Audience

This program is aimed at academic and professional staff who are in middle/senior level leadership positions or about to assume such positions.

As a guideline this would generally include senior administrative staff at levels HEO 10+ and above and senior academic levels, Heads of Schools, and above.

Duration

9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Venue

Ground Floor, Bligh Building (L03B)
90 Carillon Avenue, Newtown
Sydney University Village
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Date

This program will run in Semester 2, 2010.

To register your expression of interest

Please leave your details here and we will place you on our waiting list for 2010.