SAIL Workshops
Invite SAIL to your campus to deliver any of the following private workshops. Train up to 50 participants without the need to travel. This list of workshops is not complete – SAIL partners with campuses to design and deliver custom workshops based on your needs. Submit a workshop request so we can learn more about you.
Crucial Conversations Training
A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people
where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. These conversations—when handled poorly or ignored—lead to strained relationships and dismal results.
At our Crucial Conversations training, you will learn skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics—at all levels of your organization. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you’ll surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality
decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment.
We are offering an in-person training November 6-7 in Syracuse, NY, as well as a series of online sessions beginning October 15.
Leadership Resilience
Perhaps the greatest challenge that leaders in higher education endure is their ability to rebound from adversity. This workshop will explore the art and science of building resilience as well as a methodology for increasing resiliency skills through dialogue and understanding. This includes the ability to face the realities of situations, seek meaning and purpose, and re-invent mental models of success for the future.
Neuroscience in Higher Education Leadership
Recent findings in neuroscience and the field of leadership converge to offer spectacular insight and substantial evidence to how anxiety, emotions, and behavior influence performance and our ability to be emotionally nimble through times of stress. This hands-on, interactive workshop will explore how five frameworks (Organizational, Behavioral, Biological, Cultural, and Evolutionary) come together to shape our workplaces into spaces of creativity, or crisis.
Leading High Performing Teams on Campus
Improving your skills as a leader will inspire both you and the individuals on your team striving to achieve the team’s objectives. You will leave this session with strategies for team building, coaching your team, creating an inclusive environment, addressing the challenges facing higher education, setting expectations, and keeping accountability at the forefront.
The Emotionally Intelligent Higher Education Leader
Lead and manage others at your campus and beyond, using the Emotional Intelligence model, with a focus on your strengths and opportunities for growth in: Self-awareness, motivation, empathy, social skills, and self-regulation.
Assertive Communications: Leading Difficult Conversations on Campus
In this session we will explore personal communication styles, discuss how to deal with aggressive and passive individuals, be more assertive in times of conflict and handle manipulation and defensiveness. Participants will better understand the impact of their non-verbal cues as well and get tips on how to give feedback quickly and easily to seek win-win results. This interactive session will give you hands on practice and practical techniques to improve your communication and confidence in handling any difficult conversation.
Empowered Supervision for Organizational Performance in Higher Education
In order to be an effective supervisor it is critically important to understand all the dynamics involved. This session will engage participants in discussions surrounding the difference between staff supervision and staff development, the basic needs of people in groups and how to meet them, and the stages of group development and how they interplay with how the organization changes. Working in a unionized environment is another dynamic that must be considered, and will be a focus of the workshop. We will review a staff coaching model, effective ways to give feedback, and motivation techniques. Participants will develop a 21 day action plan to implement with their teams to increase their overall effectiveness.
Discovering My Leadership Voice
Shifting Mindsets for Successful Leadership in Higher Education
As leaders traverse their career, they carry with them specific experiences which shape their perceptions in many ways. One of the challenges that leaders endure is the mindset that is reticent to shift directions. If leaders are to make any inroads with colleagues and students, the ability to pivot from one framework of thinking to another, in quick and seamless fashion, requires an open mind and a nimble approach. The ability to reframe the mind toward actionable resolutions and high levels of engagement requires that leaders work to listen, learn, and lead accordingly. This engaging, hands-on workshop will equip leaders with the necessary tools to return to their campuses with a renewed sense and vision of potential for themselves, and those that they lead.
Pricing: $6,000 one-day rate
Call or email us to learn more and discuss the possibilities.
Note: Additional topics and custom workshops are also available.
Carolyn Mattiske, Director
SAIL Institute for Academic & Innovative Leadership
The State University of New York
353 Broadway, Albany, New York 12246
Tel: 518.445.4201