Workshop Themes and Topics

Knowing Yourself

1. Understanding your students -
   • Millennials in general
   • Students at your college in particular
2. Understanding your own styles of
   • Communication
   • Negotiation
   • Conflict resolution
   • Learning
   • Risk tolerance
   • Leadership and followership

Building a Learning Community in the Classroom

1. Writing measurable objectives
2. Engaging multiple learning styles and cognitive levels
3. Using classroom assessment techniques
4. Making a safe place to learn

Cultivating an Allied Community of Colleagues

1. Recognizing and respecting differences
2. Identifying prospects for mutually advantageous collegial interactions
3. Selecting conflict resolution techniques 
4. Planning
5. Serving as a mentor for someone in your organization

Making Change on Campus

1. Situating your vision in your institution's culture and value
2. Identifying characteristics of successful change and successful change agents
3. Managing failure
4. Negotiating
5. Identifying local challenges, opportunities, and resources