The Center for Faculty Development is piloting a leadership development experience for Spring 2025 (January-April) that is designed to provide the training that you have asked for through skill-focused professional development. We plan to offer this experience in Spring 2025 and then repeat it annually.
We will be offering a series of six workshops focused on three areas:
- 2 workshops on Trust Building
- 2 workshops on Leadership Development
- 2 workshops on Strategic Planning
Faculty can take as many of these workshops as they like. If a faculty member completes any two of the six workshops, then they will receive a picnic backpack with everything you need for an outdoor event or adventure. If a faculty member completes four of the six workshops (with at least one workshop from each of the 3 areas in the bullet points above) and participates in a 1:1 leadership development planning session for 2025-2026 (30-minutes) then they will receive a leadership certificate for completion of the Leadership Level 1 Series from the CFD and a Remarkable writing/note-taking instrument to support the implementation of their leadership development plan and university service during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Current scheduled programs on Trust Building and Leadership Development are listed below.
- Skill: Trust Building
- Friday Feb 7th from 10 AM -12 PM (Difficult Conversations 1)
This training session explores how we manage conflict and difficult conversations. Participants can build their skills and knowledge about how to navigate a variety of situations and think through their own conflict styles and their individual tendencies that might inhibit more productive engagement. This training session has been conducted across the globe with peace-builders, public leaders, and academics from more than twenty countries. This session will be led by Brie Loskota--- a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame and a consultant for government agencies, foundations, and universities on strategy, program development, and evaluation. - Tuesday March 11th 3:30 PM (Difficult Conversations 2)
This is the follow-up to Difficult Conversations 1 and focuses on academic settings and negotiating the different challenges we face in this environment. Anyone who did the Difficult Conversations 1 in fall or spring can sign up for this additional workshop with Brie Loskota.
- Friday Feb 7th from 10 AM -12 PM (Difficult Conversations 1)
- Skill: Leadership Development
- Tuesday January 28th 3:30 PM (Leadership Development 1)
Please join faculty leaders from across LMU as they discuss their role at LMU and how they decided to take on leadership roles with Leon Wiebers (Faculty Senate President and Chair of Theatre Arts), Mairead Sullivan (Chair of Women and Gender Studies and Co-Chair of the University Core Curriculum Committee), Rosalynde LeBlanc (Chair of Dance and Director of Research and Creative Practice at the Center for Faculty Development) and Jennifer Pate (Former Dept. Chair in Economics and Associate Dean in BCLA). - Thursday February 20th 3:30 PM (Leadership Development 2- Provost Office Leaders Discussion) with Jose Badenes (Vice Provost), Jonathan Rothchild (Associate Provost), and Kat Weaver (Vice Provost). This panel will address leadership roles in the provost office as well as the path to these roles.
- Tuesday January 28th 3:30 PM (Leadership Development 1)
- Skill: Strategic Planning
- TBD. We will be scheduling workshops on Strategic Planning and additional areas of interest in the next couple of weeks.
Note: Sign-ups for this program are now closed for Spring 2025. Please check back in the fall!
If you would like to learn more about this leadership programming please fill out the Qualtrics survey located here
We will be in touch with those who fill out the form and indicate interest in a week or so.