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Please join us for the professional development workshop "Fostering Institutional Collaboration: Mastering the Skills You Need to Successfully Collaborate,” presented by Jonathan Hulbert, director of leadership and organizational development, and Todd Benzin, educational technology specialist, on Thursday, April 18, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Chase Hall 109.

Within institutions of higher education, invisible (and sometimes visible) boundaries between units and people are organically created based on rank, class, seniority, authority, power, expertise, and function. We unintentionally create these buffers or boundaries to protect our job duties and the responsibilities of our units from outside influences and demands; however, to effectively meet institutional goals and compete in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous higher education market, it is imperative that all stakeholders work together across these boundaries to address institutional, divisional, and departmental challenges that cannot be solved in organizational silos. This workshop is for staff, faculty, and administrators who want to improve how they collaborate with others or different units.

During this workshop, participants will learn how to do the following: 

• Create a safe environment for collaboration
• Develop the skills to effectively collaborate
• Identify how to manage collaborative projects with other units, colleagues, or institutional stakeholders
• Identify campus technology tools that can make collaboration easy, effective, and productive

One-on-one collaboration using campus technology training sessions will be offered by Todd Benzin upon request.

Light snacks will be provided. Please register through the Workshop Registration System.