Day 1, Wednesday, Dec. 1

12:30-1:00 PM
Registration

1:00-1:30
Welcome, Introductions and Agenda Review

1:30-2:30
Understanding You

• Identifying your greatest strengths and style in light of both institutional expectations, your personal aspirations and best practices
• Assessing your weaknesses and blind spots
• Assessing your critical relationships in terms of quality and effectiveness
• Goal setting for the conference and first-draft goals for the year

2:45-4:15
Understanding Others

• Figuring out other people; what to look for; learning to read and understand what you find; how to use this in hiring, managing and evaluating
• Situational leadership theory, how to use this in coaching, managing and evaluating
• Flexing to the person's competencies, skills and style as it pertains to the situation

4:30-5:15
Pulling it All Together Case Study

• Working through a real-life case study and analyzing the issues
• Using questions to gain a better understanding
• Determining a path to solutions and/or helping a staff member (or peer or volunteer) determine the path

5:15-5:45
Faculty Firing Line
This is your chance to ask questions of the faculty and/or your peers about any topic.

6:00-7:00
Networking Reception

7:00
Conference Adjourns for the Day
Dinner on your own

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Day 2, Thursday, Dec. 2

7:45-8:30
Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00
Welcome Back and Agenda Review

9:00-10:30
Team Building

• The Five Dysfunctions of Teams by Patrick Lencioni
• Assessing your team
• Problem solving roundtables

10:45 AM-12:15
Working with Volunteers (Your Board, Council or Leadership Committee): The Ultimate Teams

• Getting the right people on the bus doing personally satisfying and institutionally productive things
• Building and protecting relationships
• Making connections for the president, head or dean

12:15-1:30
Lunch on your own

1:30-3:00
Problem Solving Case Study

• Setting the stage
• Real-life case studies on managing teams, underperformers, or keeping stars motivated (you choose)
• Debrief and roundtable problem solving topics

3:15-4:15
Roundtable Problem Solving Discussions and Best Practices

• Hiring and keeping the best
• Managing up (working with your supervisor, board, president, head or dean)
• Building or turning a program around
• Other (you decide)

4:15-5:00
Faculty Firing Line
This is your chance to ask questions of the faculty and/or your peers about any topic.

5:00
Conference Adjourns for the Day
Dinner on your own

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Day 3, Friday, Dec. 3

7:45-8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45
Welcome Back and Agenda Review

8:45-10:15
Leading and Managing for Success

• Pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Assessing your office's effectiveness in decision-making; what metrics and information are you using to drive it?
• Best practices and solutions borrowed from the for-profit world

10:45-11:45
Problem Solving Roundtables and Best Practices

• Hiring and keeping the best
• Managing up (working with your supervisor, board, president, head or dean)
• Building or turning a program around
• Other (you decide)

11:45 AM-NOON
Parting Thoughts for Leadership Success

NOON
Conference Adjourns

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