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*Academic Leadership Development Course*
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/services/academic-leadership.html>
*Six Online Workshop Sessions*
15 & 29 September, 6 & 20 October, 3 & 17 November (Tuesdays)
10:00-11:30 CEST
Registration Deadline: 7 August 2020
*To register, please fill in this online form*.
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/survey/index.php/survey/index/sid/782815>
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Strong academic leaders in Informatics and Computing disciplines are
needed now more than ever as Informatics has become a key driver in
innovation and has become entangled in all aspects of society. Academic
leaders in our field play an increasingly critical role in educating
future computing professionals to engage in this work, in shaping the
research that will deliver novel technologies that underpin future
products and services and in effectively collaborating with diverse
colleagues, partners, stakeholders, and disciplinary areas. But leading
successfully in an academic environment is very challenging, in
particular, due to the steadily increasing performance pressures in
academia, for example, increasing competitiveness and accountability
metrics, expanding workload, delivering on novel research topics, and
recruiting young talented students to pursue a PhD position.
How do you address these challenges as an academic leader in a complex
academic environment? How do you ‘do’ academic leadership? And how do
you not just survive but thrive as a leader? Those and further questions
will be addressed by *Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick*
<http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci/people/gfitzpatrick> and *Prof. Austen
Rainer* <https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/austen-rainer>, who both are
senior Informatics/Computing academics with strong leadership
backgrounds and experience and who complmeent that experience with
evidence-based approaches to positive leadership practice.
With this 6 online workshop sessions, you will:
- Appreciate the unique opportunities and challenges of academic leadership;
- Evaluate your own strengths as an academic leader, to provide the
foundation for a positive strengths-based approach to your leadership;
- Locate your academic leadership within its wider context, so as to
frame your decisions and actions as a leader;
- Identify and practice simple techniques for helping you to survive and
thrive as an academic leader;
- Integrate evidence-based recommendations with reflection on your and
others’ experience with individual, pair and small-group activities;
- Develop a plan of action for growing as an academic leader.
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*Dates & Agenda*
This course will take place virtually via Zoom on *Tuesdays from 10:00
to 11:30* (CEST).
Participants will need a device with video and audio and the ability to
run Zoom live over an internet web browser.
The sessions are scheduled as follows:
- *15.09.2020* Session 1: Intro/overview
- *29.09.2020* Session 2: Leading Informatics in academia
- *06.10.2020* Session 3: Knowing ourselves, leading ourselves
- *20.10.2020* Session 4: Leading others - building collegial environments
- *03.11.2020* Session 5: Leading others - having effective conversations
- *17.11.2020* Session 6: Connecting leaders & where next
/Please note that the course will take place provided that the minimum
number of participants is reached./
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*Target Audience*
This course is intended to develop *new and emerging leaders in
Informatics and Computing*. This is particularly appropriate *for early
and middle career academics who have recently taken on substantive
leadership roles*. Indicative examples are project leader, group leader,
theme leader, or head of an institute, school, faculty, department (or
equivalent in your institution); or any other academic leadership
service roles. It will also be beneficial for those considering such roles.
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*Format*
This will be a highly interactive, practical, experiential course by
computer scientists for computer scientists. Each session will involve
some form of the following as relevant to the topic:
- pre-work (short videos, readings, exercises, etc.),
- 90 minutes online group session (including break out groups),
- post-work (to practice and reflect), and
- use online tools (e.g. Zoom, Miro) as appropriate to the session.
The course will combine participants’ experiences of leading in academia
with evidence-based positive leadership research. There will be
opportunities for reflection through individual conversation,
small-group activity, larger group discussion, and pre- and post-session
activities.
This is an important time and space you are giving yourself. Because
your time is important, we strongly encourage you to make a firm
commitment to actively participate in the full 6-session course, i.e.,
attending all sessions and engaging in the pre- and post-work
activities. These are important for building a trusted peer cohort and
for time to engage, do, reflect, learn and grow.
The course will also encourage the emergence of a professional network
in which attendees from the course can support each other in their
post-workshop academic leadership and career progression.
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*Intended Outcomes*
Takeaways from this course will include:
- A clearer sense of your own leadership identity and style;
- Strategies for self-care, self-management, life hacks, cognitive
hacks, work-life integration, being a good role model;
- An understanding of what makes people tick;
- Strategies for identifying and developing people’s strengths and
building a collegial culture;
- Strategies for communicating powerfully through good attention,
questions, listening, and dealing with challenging conversations;
- An action plan for what to do next;
- Opportunities to continue to engage with participants upon completion
of the course.
All participants of the course will receive an *Informatics Europe
Certificate* recognising their participation and engagement with the course.
There will be also opportunities to continue discussion with the
facilitators and participants after the course has completed so as to
support participants in their continued leadership development.
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*Registration Fees*
- € 300 - Informatics Europe Members
- € 350 - Non-Members
30% of the registration fee is paid upon registration, the remaining 70%
must be paid by 8 September 2020.
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