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
This program is highly interactive and includes small group breakout sessions.
Leadership Academy
About the Program
This program is an accelerated 4-day immersive learning experience that draws on the participant’s 360° assessment of leadership competencies and skills.
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.
Crucial Conversations
This is a two-part workshop. Participants must attend both sessions.
October 16, 2023 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
October 23, 2023 | 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. These conversations—when handled poorly or ignored—lead to strained relationships and dismal results. In this workshop, participants will learn to:
Resilience and Well-Being Program
This two-day resilience and well-being course has been designed specifically for the University of Michigan Medical School. This course will equip you with actionable skills to enhance your ability to overcome adversity, manage stress, and thrive in your professional and personal life. In this highly experiential workshop, you will engage in practical exercises, get personalized coaching and feedback from the instructors, and discuss strategies for applying the skills after the course.
Create Trust by Asking Questions: The Art of Humble Inquiry
As part of the Michigan Medicine team, how do you use your interactions to encourage colleagues to express their ideas, questions, concerns or share errors without fear? Creating these types of interactions requires building trust and psychological safety through asking effective questions, active listening and reflection. These three fundamental skills, collectively called humble inquiry, foster open and respectful conversations and create the conditions necessary for becoming a High Reliability Organization (HRO).
Facilitating Conversations for an Anti-Racist Workplace
This workshop is open to faculty and staff who are managers and supervisors.
This program is highly interactive and includes small group breakout sessions.
Practice Session: Facilitating Conversations for an Anti-Racist Workplace
This workshop is open to faculty and staff who are managers and supervisors who want to hone their facilitation skills for discussions with their teams on anti-racist topics.
Note: Attendees of this practice session will have already attended Facilitating Conversations for an Anti-Racist Workplace prior to attending this session.
Behavioral Interviewing: How to Reduce Bias in Interviewing through Consistent Hiring Processes
This workshop is open to faculty and staff.
Training your interviewers is an important and often overlooked piece of a fair and effective hiring process. Well-trained interviewers protect your department from unintentional discrimination and ensure a process that results in better hires for your team.
All are welcome, whether you are new to interviewing, want a refresher, or just want insight into the interviewing process.
This training will cover the following topics:
Enhancing Faculty Professionalism
This workshop is open to faculty and administrative leaders.
This session is intended to provide information and resources to department, division, center, and administrative leaders who are charged with addressing and remediating unprofessional behavior among their faculty members. Policies, approaches, avenues, and resources available to enhance professional behavior at the unit and Medical School level will be discussed. Examples will be provided of how to address different kinds of behavior depending upon if patients or other staff are involved.