I-100 - Opening Plenary Session: Leading in Challenging, Unprecedented Times—Building Bridges & Helping Hope Make a Comeback, Sponsored by ADEA Corporate Council
In higher education, academic leaders are faced with the challenge of leading through unpreferred circumstances while maintaining optimism, fueling resiliency and helping those we lead create a better workplace and world. In this session, Cy Wakeman will awaken leaders to the impactful role they play in this pursuit, helping them to modernize their approach by providing real time, practical strategies for leading amid challenging circumstances. Cy will offer her “No Ego” approach to “Making the Call to Greatness” so that leaders can quickly “love people up” and “call people up” to co-create a more ideal future. Modern leaders manage more than the work their team members produce; they manage their team’s energy , transcending learned helplessness and disillusionment to connect current realities to brighter futures.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the “Call to Greatness” model, a practical set of tools to both validate the experiences of those they lead and inspire impactful action, even amid the challenging circumstances we face today.
Apply techniques that use the power of self-reflection to fuel engagement and accountability.
Develop practical techniques and tools leaders can use to align teams with organizational direction and shift energy from “why we can’t” to “how we could.”
