Academic Leadership Development Course - Autumn 2021
The new round of our unique and popular Academic Leadership Development Course will start online from September 2021.
This course is a unique development opportunity for new and emerging academic leaders in Informatics and Computing. Through six 2-hour online workshop sessions, complemented by an introductory session and in-between preparation work (own time engaging with video/audio content, worksheets and readings) and peer support sessions, you will have a facilitated learning experience to help you:
- Situate your leadership:
- Appreciate the unique opportunities and challenges of academic leadership;
- Locate your academic leadership within its wider context and identify the leadership approach you want to bring to it;
- Lead yourself:
- Evaluate your own values and strengths to provide the foundation for a positive strengths-based approach to your leadership;
- Identify and practice simple techniques to survive and thrive as an academic leader;
- Lead others:
- Appreciate what makes academics tick and how to bring out the best in people;
- Identify and practice simple techniques for building collegial cultures;
- Further your own development:
- Identify how to 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.
This is an exclusive, highly interactive, practical, experiential course by computer scientists for computer scientists. Places are limited, so register early!
Registration Deadline: 20 August 2021