Think Like an Actor, Present Like a Pro
Presented by Eleni Kelakos, CTO (Chief Transformational Officer), The Eleni Group
It’s conference season, and you’ve once again been asked to share your expertise by giving a breakout session at a regional, national or international conference. The thought makes you both smile and shiver. The pressure to deliver a presentation to a group of your professional colleagues that is clear, confident and memorable is undeniable. As you prepare, you start to wonder:
Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) Workshop
This workshop is open to faculty and staff.
The Medical School STRIDE Committee provides information and advice about practices that will maximize the likelihood that diverse, well-qualified candidates for faculty, fellowship and residency positions will be identified, and, if selected for offers, recruited to the University of Michigan. The committee leads workshops for faculty and administrators involved in selection, recruitment and hiring. Much of the information is also relevant to retention and promotion of these individuals as well.
Essential Skills for Successful Leadership
This 1-day workshop is designed to assist faculty in developing the essential leadership and management skills necessary to run a lab, start a program, or manage a center or division.
This workshop will highlight topics such as:
- Leadership
- Management
- Diversity
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
- Managing performance
Workshop objectives:
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Increase awareness of competencies and skills necessary to successfully manage others
Getting Promoted by Utilizing the Clinical Track Pathways
The Medical School recognizes the variety of development tracks and opportunities for academic promotion within the Clinical track. As such, specific pathways were designed as a development tool to guide faculty who want to focus their careers in a specific direction and to help them progress towards academic promotion.
Making the Most of Your Presentation
Strong presentation skills are a key to success for researchers and other professionals, yet many speakers are at a loss to tackle the task. Systematic as they otherwise can be in their work, they go at it intuitively or haphazardly, with much good will but seldom good results. In this talk, Dr Doumont proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver an oral presentation: he covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as stage fright.
Facilitated by: Jean-luc Doumont, PhD
Smarter, Faster, Stronger, Longer: Sleep Optimization for Busy Medical Faculty
This session will present the role of sleep and fatigue in cognitive and physical performance. We will delineate the sleep and circadian 'thieves' that impair our daily functioning and discuss easily implemented behaviors to enhance sleep, energy, and performance.
Facilitators:
Jonathan Barkham, MD, Clinical Instructor of Internal Medicine and Neurology
Cathy Goldstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
Objectives:
Communicating the Value of Your Research to a Broad Audience
Finding the right researcher, clinician, or industry partner is the first step for a successful research collaboration, but it’s only half the challenge. Most failed connections are a result of a disconnect when trying to communicate the value in a partnership. This workshop will address this challenge by teaching the importance of value propositions and communicating research in a way that makes it compelling for every audience.
Time Management: Getting Things Done (GTD)
Research shows that mental clutter, or information overload, has significant negative effects on our productivity, relationships, happiness, and overall quality of life. It’s the stuff that keeps us up at night, reduces our focus on what is important, and prohibits us from getting things done.
Getting Things Done (GTD) Fundamentals Training teaches a behavior‑based skillset that individuals can immediately apply to create focus, organize information, and master workflow.
What is GTD Training?
Crucial Accountability
This workshop will help you learn how to deal with bad behavior, disruptive colleagues, and difficult bosses or employees. You will learn a straightforward, step-by-step process for identifying and resolving performance gaps, strengthening accountability, eliminating inconsistency, and reducing resentment. It uses video, group discussions, skill practice, and real-life application to make the course both entertaining and engaging.
Early Career Kickstart: Clinical Track
These biannual sessions are intended as a follow-up to the monthly New Faculty Orientation. Orientation gave you the information to get you started at Michigan. In this session, there will be specific focus on expectations for advancement and career planning within the clinical track pathways. Other topics will include: mentoring, giving feedback, and self-care. Established clinical track faculty will share their stories around their career trajectories including milestones and stumbling blocks to avoid.