Hello, Leader.
As the greenery around campus fades into the colors of fall and we settle into the semester, don't forget the wellness and self-care that are essential to maintaining a healthy culture and work life balance. As a leader, make sure to take some time to support both your own and your team's health and well-being by availing yourself of some of the resources and opportunities available to you through the university. Some things to try: check out the multitude of resources available through the Employee Assistance Program and liveWell; sign up for a Discover Your University tour, a great opportunity for you and your team to explore campus behind-the-scenes; or get outside and take a walking tour of campus.
OPPORTUNITIES
Becoming a Better and More Authentic Leader
Log in to LinkedIn Learning to listen to Executive Fellow and former Professor at Harvard Business School, Bill George, as he discusses 'the chronic need that the world has for more authentic leaders or more real leaders. Not more charismatic leaders, not more ego-driven leaders, but leaders who are real, who can bring people together around a passion for a common purpose...' Learn how to examine your strengths and weaknesses, solicit honest feedback, and become more authentic in how you behave and lead in Bill George's Self-Awareness, Authenticity, and Leadership training on LinkedIn Learning by clicking the link below or logging in and searching for 'Bill George.'
Watch Self-Awareness, Authenticity, And Leadership
Level-Up Your Leadership Skills
Developing leadership skills is essential for personal and organizational growth, yet individuals often struggle to identify ways to develop their leadership skills. Developing the Leader Within You (and your Organization), is a webinar from Tippie College of Business Professor Jennifer Nahrgang. You can watch the video on demand to receive tips on identifying the best leadership development opportunities and to learn how to leverage those opportunities to maximize learning and growth.
Watch Developing the Leader Within You
Equity is Everyone’s Job: Using Leadership Behaviors to Promote Equity
Equity is giving everyone access to the same opportunities, even if it means treating people differently. In schools, in the workplace, and throughout society, people have vastly unequal access to opportunities based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion, and other forms of identity. Equity means recognizing that inequality and actively remedying it. This blog shares insightful tips on how to leverage leadership behaviors from The Leadership Challenge® to promote equity within your organization.
Final Discover Your University Tours of 2023
Gather your team and take advantage of the chance to explore facilities at the Engineering Technology Center in Seamans Center; get a (virtual) Introduction to the People's Law Library of Iowa; go on a Behind the Scenes Tour of the UI's Flagship Enterprise Datacenter - the Information Technology Facility (ITF); or take a peek into the future of renewable natural gas production, algae-based treatment technologies, and more via the Iowa Wastewater and Waste to Energy Research Program (IWWERP) at the Iowa City Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Weds., Oct. 18, 2023
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SPOTLIGHT
The 2023 UI Health and Well-Being Fair is just around the corner...
The UI Strategic Plan 2022-2027 calls upon us to “embed well-being and mental health into all aspects of campus culture.” When you attend the UI Health and Well-Being Fair you will learn about campus resources to support your own personal health but also that of your work unit. Be sure to encourage your faculty and staff (as well as yourself!) to stop by UI Field House Main Deck to get a free flu shot, health screening, chair massage and more.
Weds., Nov. 1, 2023, 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
View UI Health and Well-Being Fair Information
RESOURCE HIGHLIGHT
Becoming an Effective Leader
The American Association of Medical Colleges, AAMC.org, has a useful leadership toolkit for faculty members providing tools to help you develop your own leadership style.
COACH'S CORNER
“My day is full of back-to-back-to-back meetings, when am I supposed to get any real work done?”
If you’ve thought this, you may be experiencing meeting bloat. Meeting bloat happens when teams fail to think through the purpose for meetings, set actionless agendas, or assume recurring meetings should be the default. To help protect your time (and your team’s time), here are three tips to help make creating good meetings easy and bad meetings hard:
- Reset your calendar settings - Normal defaults are 30- and 60-minute meetings, change your Outlook defaults to 22- or 45-minute meetings; you’ll often find the same amount of work is done in less time (and you’ll appreciate the built-in bathroom breaks).
- Set criteria for when to meet – Organizational psychologist Adam Grant proposes that there are four reasons to meet: To decide, to learn, to bond, and to do. If your meeting doesn’t fit into those four categories, it’s an email.
- Reframe the meeting agenda as questions to be answered – For example, “Staff Retreat” might become, “Where should we hold the staff retreat?” This tactic intrigues and engages your attendees and clarifies who should be invited to help answer the questions.
Bonus Zoom tip: turn off self-view. Research by Dr. Allison Gabriel revealed Zoom fatigue comes from watching ourselves during virtual meetings rather than the sheer hours spent in meetings. Plus, you’re likely to pay more attention to and connect with others in the room.
To learn more, check out this episode of Adam Grant’s WorkLife podcast on creating better meetings.
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