The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® & Leadership Practices Inventory
Participants will develop their understanding of leadership as an observable set of skills and articulate how the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership significantly impact their organization and team to increase commitment, engagement, and performance.
In this interactive session, the focus is on you. Using the results from the Leader Practices Inventory 360 assessment (LPI), participants will analyze the frequency of leadership behaviors as perceived by colleagues, staff, and supervisors, and describe how the frequency of leadership behaviors contributes to gaining organizational and staff buy-in. Participants will draw a correlation between personal values and leadership philosophy to construct an action plan for continued professional development.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Understand and describe the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership;
- Evaluate leadership rankings of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership;
- Develop understanding of the LPI as a leadership development tool;
- Discuss areas and measurement methodology for the LPI;
- Describe emotional intelligence and its impact on leadership;
- Recognize the meaning and value of individual leadership;
- Identify your own leadership strengths;
- Identify areas for improvement;
- Discuss the opportunities to take risks needed for growth; and
- Create an action plan for the next steps in your development as a leader.
Presenter: Branden Grimmett, Associate Provost, Career and Professional Development, Loyola Marymount University
Ethical Issues in Career Center Management
Practitioner consideration and understanding of myriad ethical and legal issues is vital for successful career center management, particularly in policy development and implementation. This session will consider key ethical issues in professional practices, and related NACE resource and case studies will be presented for policy development exercises.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Differentiate between legal and ethical issues;
- Understand the salient NACE resources for addressing ethical issues in professional practice; and
- Examine case studies for key ethical issues and develop related policy recommendations.
Presenter: Ja’Net Glover, Senior Director of Career Services, University of Florida – Career Connections Center
Strategic Planning for Career Services: Laying a Foundation for Success
Like many practitioners, you may find yourself faced with increasing demands and deliverables. The key to meeting those demands is through strategic management and planning. Attendees will explore the strategic planning process and develop an understanding of core components necessary to increase organizational effectiveness and success using a collaborative leadership approach. Attendees will develop a strategic framework that will identify current organizational issues, including barriers to the process, and learn methods to overcome obstacles.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Understand basic elements of strategic planning;
- Apply strategic planning concepts to the unique challenges in your own career center; and
- Develop the foundation for your strategic plan.
Presenter: Suzanne Helbig, Associate Vice Provost, Division of Career Pathways, University of California – Irvine
Transformative Leadership by Design
Current and future trends in higher education require career services directors to exhibit transformative and impactful leadership skills beyond day-to-day operational management activities. Tomorrow’s career services leaders are expected to articulate a vision for the future of their program, design a strategic roadmap for their campus community, activate internal teams and external networks and resources around a common purpose, scale-up efforts and maximize engagement through innovative technology and data integration, and use creative branding and communication methods to communicate the story of their program successes and challenges to their various stakeholders. Using the tenets of transformative leadership and design thinking as a backdrop, this interactive course will focus on building the essential knowledge and skills to lead future paradigms of college career services.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Articulate steps to develop a vision for the future and strategic plan using transformative leadership and design thinking methods;
- Use effective methods of communication to lead others toward institutional vision and strategic goals;
- Identify and apply different styles of situational leadership; and
- Implement steps to lead change.
Presenter: Branden Grimmett, Associate Provost, Career and Professional Development, Loyola Marymount University
Strategic Financial Planning and Budget Management for Career Services
As the economic model for higher education comes under increasing scrutiny from many quarters, becoming an adept financial planner and budget manager is critical to the success of career services leaders . Understanding the fundamentals of college and university budgeting practices, developing savvy financial management skills, exploring creative ways of generating new resources and integrating budget with annual and strategic planning are essential to leadership in career services. Drawing from current events, case studies, and interactive problem solving, participants will improve budget and finance strategies for departmental success.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Explore pricing, ROI, and financial climate for higher education and its impact on career services;
- Identify best practices for financial planning and budget management in the current context;
- Generate creative solutions for stewarding current resources and cultivating new revenue opportunities; and
- Develop and align connections within budgeting, annual goal setting, strategic planning and resource advocacy.
Presenter: Ja’Net Glover, Senior Director of Career Services, University of Florida – Career Connections Center
Pathways to Student Success with Competency Development
How will the revised career readiness competencies move us forward in building a successful workforce? Two years in the making, the revisions reflect the work of a member task force, research conducted by NACE in partnership with SkillSurvey, and recommendations gathered through the NACE membership. The session will provide an overview of the revisions, share highlights about the work of the task force and the research into behaviors associated with the competencies, and review implications for developing talent.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Understand the eight core competencies that employers seek in job applicants;
- Develop a framework for incorporating the competencies into career readiness curriculum;
- Create a plan to communicate competency development to campus and university stakeholders.
Presenter: Tim Harding, Asst. Vice President, Career Development and Engagement, The University of Tampa
Strategic Communications & Brand Marketing
Successfully marketing your career center involves an integrated communications and marketing plan along with cohesive brand messaging and innovative approaches. This session reviews the required fundamentals for launching a long-term approach to your strategic communications and marketing efforts.
Following this session, you will be able to:
- Develop or refine a strategic communications and marketing plan;
- Explore innovative marketing approaches and best practices;
- Apply design thinking to storytelling for influence;
- Identify strategies to strengthen and leverage your career center brand; and
- Assess results and make data-informed decisions.
Presenter: TBD
External & Employer Relations
External and employer relations partnerships are an essential and valuable part of career services. As participants think about enhancing these relationships, you’ll be asked key questions: Why should these employers want to work with you? How will you reach out? What will you say? How do you organize and track outreach? This interactive session will bring clarity to these dilemmas to help participants identify opportunities to enhancing their relationships with employers.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Create an outreach campaign with criteria for identifying employer targets;
- Consider and incorporate diversity and inclusion as core components to relationship management;
- Asses and track outreach efforts; and
- Interpret data to create leverage with your college or university.
Presenter: Larry Jackson, Associate Director, Counseling & Programs, University of California – Berkeley
Personal Development for Professional Growth
In today’s rapidly changing environment, personal and professional success depends on the collective capacity to understand what is meant by building on the best , imagining what can be, and creating what will be. Participants will be introduced to a method of positive planning that is rooted in a process of discovery.
To achieve this self-directed plan, participants will use a tool that is new to most people—appreciative inquiry. Appreciative inquiry is a way to rediscover and tap into our core strengths and highest potentials. Appreciative inquiry helps us develop our self-talk in a constructive way; encourages us to bring out the best qualities in serving our organizations; and helps us develop the goals, dreams, and action steps that support the future of our careers.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Create an outreach campaign with criteria for identifying employer targets;
- Assess and track outreach efforts; and
- Interpret data to create leverage with your college or university.
- Identify the principles and processes of positive planning;
- Use appreciative inquiry to examine your best qualities in service to your organization; and
- Develop a self-directed plan for mapping your goals, dreams, and action steps to move your career forward.
Presenter: Théres W. Stiefer, Ed.D., Higher Education Consultant
*Presenters are subject to change.