Building and Leading Successful Research Teams
Audience: faculty at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: This workshop provides attendees with practical skills for developing efficient and productive research teams, managing the work of the team, and creating a collaborative culture across members of a research team. The presenter will draw on her experience managing staff and student members of several different research teams. From concrete, practical issues such as creating and assigning work tasks to conceptual and ethical issues related to dealing with conflict, the workshop will provide an overview of the work involved in running research teams from hiring to project completion.
Mentoring Grad Students and Postdocs for Diverse Careers
Audience: advisors, mentors, PIs, department chairs, directors of graduate study
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants develop an understanding of the diverse career paths open to and increasingly pursued by PhD students. Drawing on her research on the career paths and outcomes of PhDs across disciplines, along with her experience in the graduate student career and professional development field, Dr. Simula shares strategies and resources for effectively advising, mentoring, and supporting PhD students for diverse careers beyond the traditional faculty path. Participants leave the webinar with resources and tools they can immediately begin using in their work with graduate students.
Preparing and Revising Academic Manuscripts
Audience: early career faculty
Length: 60 minutes
Description: Drawing on her own experience publishing numerous academic articles and book chapters, as well as her experience as a reviewer and editor of several special issues and edited volumes, Dr. Simula shares strategies for preparing academic manuscripts, identifying potential manuscript homes, communicating with editors, and responding to reviewers. Participants will take away from the workshop a clearer understanding of the academic review process, tools for effectively communicating with editors and reviewers, and strategies for managing and responding to critical feedback.
Developing and Running a Research Agenda and Publication Pipeline
Audience: early career faculty
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn strategies for developing an intentional, focused research agenda and tools for developing a realistic publication pipeline and timeline. The workshop will address how to build a research agenda that moves forward multiple projects in different phases of research (e.g. development, data collection, drafting, revising), how to effectively manage collaborative projects, and how to set realistic, sustainable research and publication goals.
Creating and Sustaining Your Mentoring Network
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how mentoring can help advance their scholarly and/or professional goals and contribute to personal and professional flourishing. The workshop covers how to develop a mentoring network, including identifying one’s areas of mentoring needs, understanding the distinctions among different types of mentoring roles, identifying and approaching potential mentors, setting mentoring relationship expectations, and navigating challenges in mentoring relationships. Participants will leave the workshop with a map of their own ideal mentoring network and concrete strategies for developing and sustaining their mentoring network.
Project Management for Academics
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 90 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, attendees learn the basic principles, concepts, and tools of project management and how to apply those to academic projects, from dissertations to books to course design and preparation and beyond. Focusing on project management techniques that maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing burnout, rework, and overwhelm, this workshop provides concrete strategies for managing academic life and work, including time management and organization. Participants will leave the workshop having learned how to develop and use a project management plan to keep work organized and on track and will complete their own project management plan for a project of their choice.
Cultivating Professional and Personal Flourishing as an Academic
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants will identify their core values and learn how to use those values to set goals. Participants will identify practices and strategies for developing and sustaining work-life balance and holistic well-being while enhancing professional productivity and achievement. Attendees will learn about the common limiting beliefs and ruts that lead to burnout and overwhelm among academics and strategies for addressing those challenges. Workshop attendees will take away their personal plan for cultivating their own individual flourishing.
Developing Your Semester Strategic Plan
Format: 60-minutes
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, participants will develop a personalized strategic plan for the semester ahead. The workshop covers how to set productive, realistic goals, developing an individual strategic plan that supports both professional and personal flourishing, translating big-picture goals into actionable steps, and how to use strategic planning to guide day-to-day work and prioritizing commitments. Participants will leave the workshop having developed their own personal semester strategic plan.
Setting Boundaries and Saying No: How to Protect Your Productivity and Well-Being
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants learn how to set and honor boundaries that prioritize their own productivity and well-being. The workshop discusses when and how to say no, the importance of intentionally assessing requests and invitations to take on additional work, and strategies for saying no while preserving relationships. Designed to help faculty and administrators recognize the common barriers to establishing healthy boundaries and limiting beliefs that lead us to overcommit, this workshop addresses the culture of academia and practical strategies for avoiding over commitment, overwhelm, and exhaustion.
Developing Effective Writing Practices
Audience: faculty at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants learn concrete strategies for more productive, efficient, and stress-free writing. Rather than advocating a limited set of practices, the workshop focuses on helping participants identify strategies, practices, and habits that are most effective for their personal working styles and schedules. The workshop presents practical tools and strategies, and helps participants identify common roadblocks, barriers, and limiting beliefs that interfere with effective writing practices.
Academic, Organize Thyself!: Tips and Tools for an Organized Scholarly Life
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants learn concrete tools and strategies for organizing email, materials, and files related research and scholarship. The workshop focuses on introducing both practical tools and free or no-cost software that supports academic organization, including both paper and digital materials. The workshop also provides strategies and tools for keeping organized on collaborative projects.
Flourish While You Write: A Virtual Writing Retreat
Audience: faculty at all career stages
Length: 3 hours
Description: In this three-hour retreat, participants identify concrete, achievable goals for a writing project of their choice to work on during the retreat, receive structure and support in achieving those goals, learn tips and strategies for simultaneously deepening their flourishing and productivity while you work, and spend 2 ½ hours making progress on the writing project they bring to the retreat.
Audience: faculty at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: This workshop provides attendees with practical skills for developing efficient and productive research teams, managing the work of the team, and creating a collaborative culture across members of a research team. The presenter will draw on her experience managing staff and student members of several different research teams. From concrete, practical issues such as creating and assigning work tasks to conceptual and ethical issues related to dealing with conflict, the workshop will provide an overview of the work involved in running research teams from hiring to project completion.
Mentoring Grad Students and Postdocs for Diverse Careers
Audience: advisors, mentors, PIs, department chairs, directors of graduate study
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants develop an understanding of the diverse career paths open to and increasingly pursued by PhD students. Drawing on her research on the career paths and outcomes of PhDs across disciplines, along with her experience in the graduate student career and professional development field, Dr. Simula shares strategies and resources for effectively advising, mentoring, and supporting PhD students for diverse careers beyond the traditional faculty path. Participants leave the webinar with resources and tools they can immediately begin using in their work with graduate students.
Preparing and Revising Academic Manuscripts
Audience: early career faculty
Length: 60 minutes
Description: Drawing on her own experience publishing numerous academic articles and book chapters, as well as her experience as a reviewer and editor of several special issues and edited volumes, Dr. Simula shares strategies for preparing academic manuscripts, identifying potential manuscript homes, communicating with editors, and responding to reviewers. Participants will take away from the workshop a clearer understanding of the academic review process, tools for effectively communicating with editors and reviewers, and strategies for managing and responding to critical feedback.
Developing and Running a Research Agenda and Publication Pipeline
Audience: early career faculty
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, attendees will learn strategies for developing an intentional, focused research agenda and tools for developing a realistic publication pipeline and timeline. The workshop will address how to build a research agenda that moves forward multiple projects in different phases of research (e.g. development, data collection, drafting, revising), how to effectively manage collaborative projects, and how to set realistic, sustainable research and publication goals.
Creating and Sustaining Your Mentoring Network
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants will develop an understanding of how mentoring can help advance their scholarly and/or professional goals and contribute to personal and professional flourishing. The workshop covers how to develop a mentoring network, including identifying one’s areas of mentoring needs, understanding the distinctions among different types of mentoring roles, identifying and approaching potential mentors, setting mentoring relationship expectations, and navigating challenges in mentoring relationships. Participants will leave the workshop with a map of their own ideal mentoring network and concrete strategies for developing and sustaining their mentoring network.
Project Management for Academics
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 90 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, attendees learn the basic principles, concepts, and tools of project management and how to apply those to academic projects, from dissertations to books to course design and preparation and beyond. Focusing on project management techniques that maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing burnout, rework, and overwhelm, this workshop provides concrete strategies for managing academic life and work, including time management and organization. Participants will leave the workshop having learned how to develop and use a project management plan to keep work organized and on track and will complete their own project management plan for a project of their choice.
Cultivating Professional and Personal Flourishing as an Academic
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants will identify their core values and learn how to use those values to set goals. Participants will identify practices and strategies for developing and sustaining work-life balance and holistic well-being while enhancing professional productivity and achievement. Attendees will learn about the common limiting beliefs and ruts that lead to burnout and overwhelm among academics and strategies for addressing those challenges. Workshop attendees will take away their personal plan for cultivating their own individual flourishing.
Developing Your Semester Strategic Plan
Format: 60-minutes
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
In this interactive workshop, participants will develop a personalized strategic plan for the semester ahead. The workshop covers how to set productive, realistic goals, developing an individual strategic plan that supports both professional and personal flourishing, translating big-picture goals into actionable steps, and how to use strategic planning to guide day-to-day work and prioritizing commitments. Participants will leave the workshop having developed their own personal semester strategic plan.
Setting Boundaries and Saying No: How to Protect Your Productivity and Well-Being
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants learn how to set and honor boundaries that prioritize their own productivity and well-being. The workshop discusses when and how to say no, the importance of intentionally assessing requests and invitations to take on additional work, and strategies for saying no while preserving relationships. Designed to help faculty and administrators recognize the common barriers to establishing healthy boundaries and limiting beliefs that lead us to overcommit, this workshop addresses the culture of academia and practical strategies for avoiding over commitment, overwhelm, and exhaustion.
Developing Effective Writing Practices
Audience: faculty at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants learn concrete strategies for more productive, efficient, and stress-free writing. Rather than advocating a limited set of practices, the workshop focuses on helping participants identify strategies, practices, and habits that are most effective for their personal working styles and schedules. The workshop presents practical tools and strategies, and helps participants identify common roadblocks, barriers, and limiting beliefs that interfere with effective writing practices.
Academic, Organize Thyself!: Tips and Tools for an Organized Scholarly Life
Audience: faculty and administrators at all career stages
Length: 60 minutes
Description: In this workshop, participants learn concrete tools and strategies for organizing email, materials, and files related research and scholarship. The workshop focuses on introducing both practical tools and free or no-cost software that supports academic organization, including both paper and digital materials. The workshop also provides strategies and tools for keeping organized on collaborative projects.
Flourish While You Write: A Virtual Writing Retreat
Audience: faculty at all career stages
Length: 3 hours
Description: In this three-hour retreat, participants identify concrete, achievable goals for a writing project of their choice to work on during the retreat, receive structure and support in achieving those goals, learn tips and strategies for simultaneously deepening their flourishing and productivity while you work, and spend 2 ½ hours making progress on the writing project they bring to the retreat.