Leadership

The Leadership (LC) certificate weaves leadership development principles and practices into a practical curriculum designed to help individuals achieve leadership success in the workplace. The certificate utilizes many of the best practices of top leadership programs and provides tools to enhance one's growth and leadership capacity. The comprehensive curriculum is presented by today's leaders in research administration and human capital managers as a way of providing current and future leaders with the tools to succeed in taking their organizations to the next level and provide high quality service to their institutions and constituents.

Two (2) half-day or one (1) full day workshop and eight (8) concurrent sessions (six (6) required sessions; two (2) elective sessions)

Required Workshop

WS10: Essential Skills for Research Administration Leaders

Date and Time: Sunday, April 28, 2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

This workshop is proposed to fulfill the full day workshop request for the Leadership certificate. It will be structured to use interactive exercises and a case study and will include high level content for leadership development, research administration staffing and management, research and faculty development, innovation and economic development, and integrity and stewardship.

Learning objectives:

  1. Identify the core tenets of supervision and organization of research activities from an organization management perspective.
  2. Understand the importance of training and professional development is providing excellent research administration services.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Susan Sedwick, PhD, CRA, Senior Consulting Associate, Attain LLC; Marianne Woods, PhD, JD, Faculty and Program Director, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs Johns Hopkins University

Elective Concurrent Session

M203: Mentor-Mentee Relationship Up Close & Personal: Obtain & Maintain A Relationship

Date and Time: Monday, April 29, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:15pm

Content level: Basic

A mentor-mentee relationship can be a highly rewarding experience for both the mentor and mentee. It can be the key to reaching your professional and personal goals. The presenters will share their personal story of how they started, developed, and maintain their mentor-mentee relationship. This session will be highly interactive, in order for the audience members to get a close up view of the inner workings of a positive and healthy mentor-mentee relationship.

Learning objectives:

  1. Learn how to identify and approach an individual to develop a mentor-mentee relationship.
  2. Learn how to maintain a rewarding mentor-mentee relationship.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Domenica Pappas, CRA, Director, Office of Sponsored Research and Programs, Illinois Institute of Technology; Sikirat Tijani, MRA, CRA, Associate Director, Grants and Contracts, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

W106: What's My Style? Understanding Yourself on the Road to Effective Leadership

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 9:15am to 10:30am

Content level: Basic

There are a multitude of personal and professional self-assessment tools available to help us better understand ourselves and how we interact with those around us. Increasing our level of self-awareness is critical to our ability to be effective leaders, to make progress on our career goals and improve our work performance--no matter what role we play in our institution. This session will explore some of the available tools, what they can tell us about ourselves, and how this information can be incorporated into our daily interactions to bring about the most positive result.

Learning objectives:

Participants will explore tools for assessing their behavior in conflict situations, determining their learning style, identifying their personality preferences, evaluating their emotional intelligence, discovering their influencing style, and learning.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Tabatha Lemke, Project Manager, Sanford Research; Anne Schauer, MA, CRA, Director of Research and Sponsored Programs Miami University

1. Conflict Management

Required Concurrent Session

M304: Lessons in Leadership

Date and Time: Monday, April 29, 2019 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Content level: Intermediate

We (hopefully) learn from our mistakes so come and learn from my mistakes (and a few successes) in order to avoid the pitfalls in your own leadership journey. This session will cover a wide variety of leadership lessons to help managers at all levels. We’ll use real-life vignettes and case studies that you can apply to your own professional and personal life. The session will include dealing with issues such as:

  • Employee turnover
  • Low morale
  • Financial challenges
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Employee layoffs
  • Employee terminations
  • Communications
  • Legal challenges
  • Embezzlement
  • Disasters and much more

Come learn from an established leader with more than 30 years of executive management experience at a variety of levels ranging from head french fry cook to CEO.

Learning objectives:

  1. Enhance awareness, reflective thinking and commitment towards effective leadership.
  2. Gain knowledge and understanding of good leadership behaviors and models.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Kevin Titus, MBA, Business Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Check out the online HTML CheatSheet here and save the link because you might need it while composing content for a web page.

M401: Leadership Strategies for Reducing Conflict in Research Management

Date and Time: Monday, April 29, 2019 - 3:45pm to 5:00pm

Content level: Advanced

Each of us will at some stage be in a position where we must deal with a difficult person in our office, in our institution, or from an external partner. These interactions, if not dealt with well, can become a source of anxiety, and decreased satisfaction and job productivity. This session will examine how to recognize when we and/or others create difficult situations, strategies for dealing with difficult people and situations, dealing with aggression, and shifting the balance of power.

Learning objectives:

  1. To recognize the roles, we play as leaders, in contributing to and/or escalating office conflict situations.
  2. To develop essential communication skills to deal effectively with complex personalities and situations so that we can mitigate circumstances that have a potentially detrimental impact on the research office.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Debra Schaller-Demers, MSOM, Director, Research Outreach and Compliance Tri-I RCR Course Director Administrative Member, Tri-SCI ESCRO IACUC, IBC, and Export Control Administration, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center The online Windows XP simulator runs in a web browser and its operation imitates the operating system. You can use it to prank someone.

2. Change Management

Required Concurrent Session

T404: Accelerating Change: Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Possibilities

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 3:15pm to 4:30pm

Content level: Intermediate

Change initiatives struggle to get traction. Collaboration is elusive and lack of support or resistance to change is common. in this 75 minutes session you will be introduced to John Kotter's powerful proven 8-Step model to lead change in your department and some of the core skills build buy-in.

Learning objectives:

  1. Utilize Kotter's 8-Step Model to lead change in your Department.
  2. Identify core skills to build buy-in and collaboration: art of explanation to inspire others to act.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Stan Sack, PhD, Psychologist Consultant, Persona

3. Metrics

Required Concurrent Session

M106: The Role of Research Administration in the Data Driven Accreditation Process

Date and Time: Monday, April 29, 2019 - 9:30am to 10:45am

Content level: Intermediate

During the accreditation process, the Council for Higher Education Initiatives (CHEA) asks colleges and universities “Is the institution fulfilling its mission and achieving its goals?” The answer to this question lies within both academic and administrative units campus-wide. Goals must be related to the institution’s overall strategic plan and must be measurable. Sponsored Programs offices are no exception to this process and many research administrators are now being asked to present their yearly objectives in a strictly quantifiable manner. This is a change for many, and impacts everything from staff evaluations to application and award projections. This interactive session, for those who have and will go through this process, will provide useful tips for successfully meeting institutional needs.

Learning objectives:

  1. Create realistic and measurable goals as you relate to the institutional strategic plan.
  2. Create “unit level” strategic plans for sponsored programs offices that relate to the institutional mission.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Dominic Esposito, CRA, Director of Corporate, Government and Foundation Relations, The College of New Rochelle Use the online HTML, CSS, JavaScript tool collection to make websites easily.

4. Communication

Required Concurrent Session

T103: Speaking Effectively To a PI (Principal Investigator) Even When You Are Married To One

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 9:15am to 10:30am

Content level: Basic

There are many times through our communications when we wonder if the PI doesn't understand our role as Research Administrators and vice-versa. This session will provide insight on how to communicate effectively to a PI as well as how we can train our PI's to communicate so that we can support them.

Learning objectives:

  1. Decode the science language and how to effectively communicate to their PIs.
  2. Provide a basis of support to effectively work with each other.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Jason Claes, MBA, MSM, GRCRA, Assistant Director, Research Accounting, University of Cincinnati

T303: Storytelling With Data: Data Visualization in Research Administration

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 1:45pm to 3:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

Sharing information effectively is a critical skill in the research administration field. We all need to be pushed to think more critically and creatively about communication and presentation as it is necessary to be able to share ideas clearly to grow as leaders. Yet communication and presentation skills and resources are not necessarily top-of-mind when we think about our work. This discussion session will provide a forum for interested and like-minded data enthusiasts at all levels to share a variety of innovative ways to communicate and disseminate data and information to different internal and external stakeholders, curated from leaders in the field.

Learning objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of best practices in data communication and presentation techniques.
  2. Access resources and inspiration for effective communication and presentation of data and results.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Kimberly Pratt, MA, CRA, Sponsored Projects Officer, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital Never forget to clean your HTML code and double check your content before publishing the articles!

5. Diversity in the Workplace

Required Concurrent Session

W105: Team Science: Strengthening Teams through Diverse Approaches to Collaboration

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 9:15am to 10:30am

Content level: Basic

Based upon principles laid out in the NIH’s “Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide,” this session is designed for research administrators who work in teams to support research efforts – and that’s all of us! This session will enable participants to identify their strengths profile in the areas of reacting, thinking, and relating, and begin to extend that understanding to other members of the team. Through active participation, we will explore how understanding our own and others’ strengths can help to increase our personal effectiveness and ability to collaborate and strengthen team dynamics in order to meet our ultimate goals.

Learning objectives:

  1. Learn how your personal strengths impact approaches to problem-solving, communication, and personal interactions.
  2. Learn how to create stronger, more inclusive teams by seeking to understand the perspective of all team members.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Kimberly Pratt, MA, CRA, Sponsored Projects Officer, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

6. Delegation

Required Concurrent Session

T202: Effective Delegation

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 10:45am to 12:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

Positive delegation skills are one of the most effective ways for research management leaders to enhance their organizational position. However, leaders frequently find themselves at odds when it comes to delegating; after all, what made them a leader was their ability to get the job done and giving their strength away seems counter-intuitive to success. This session will teach you some of the important aspects of effective delegation that will make your office more successful and effective in the research management workplace.

Learning objectives:

  1. To recognize when it is appropriate to delegate tasks to others.
  2. To explore, assess, and adapt various methods of delegation to meet your research office needs.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s):

Debra Schaller-Demers, MSOM, Director, Research Outreach and Compliance Tri-I RCR Course Director Administrative Member, Tri-SCI ESCRO IACUC, IBC, and Export Control Administration, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center