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In this final post of our “back to school” theme for September, I encourage you to take a fresh look at caring for yourself and encourage you to take a Tiny Sabbatical.

A New Kind of Self-Care

In the US we host approximately 55 million work-related meetings a week. 71% are considered unproductive and 65% of employees agree that meetings prevent them from completing their own work. This is expensive, and soul-crushing, and I think we should knock it off.  

I’m betting you also would like to kick “meeting malaise” to the curb on your campus. In today’s episode I talk about the differences between traditional meetings and meaningful gatherings, and list four steps you can take to combine them in order to bring purpose and meaning to your campus meetings. 

#14 Making Meetings Matter

Boring meetings are a bad habit. They are expensive, and soul-crushing, and I think we should stop holding them already.

But change is hard, and requires understanding what to stop doing as well as what, and how, to start doing. So I’m kickstarting this for you by dissecting traditional meetings and comparing them to meaningful gatherings. I also list four steps you can take to shift your meetings into purpose gatherings, bringing clarity and possibly even joy to your campus meetings. 

If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands folks around the country who want to kick “meeting malaise” to the curb on your campus, read on!

Making Meetings Matter

three happy, smiling women sitting at a table with their laptops open working on something together.

In this post I share four guidelines and more than 20 actionable strategies for creating THE BEST FIRST DAY EVER! for your students and colleagues.

#13: How to Have the Best First Day Ever

In this post I share four guidelines and more than 20 actionable strategies for creating THE BEST FIRST DAY EVER! for your students and colleagues.

How to Have the Best First Day Ever

When PWIs use “race” as the primary signifier of diversity, we burden our colleagues with black and brown skin and reify structural and behavioral racism. We can do better.

Unleashing the Creative Power of Diversity by Creating Psychological Safety

If you’ve been following me anywhere on social media or listening to the podcast, you know I’m low-key obsessed with the Dobbs ruling and the way it will affect our college campuses. To my mind, there is no question of whether it will affect colleges…the question is when and how we’ll see those effects: how […]

Planning for an Uncertain Future Through Storytelling 

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You have a strategic plan. You work with focus on your institutional goals and priorities. But when sudden and surprising, big paradigm-shifting stuff happens, you’re still not prepared.

#7: Planning for an Uncertain Future Through Storytelling

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As international students worry about their safety, international enrollments in US states that restrict rights may suffer. This does not bode well for the diversification of higher ed as an industry.

Could Dobbs Mean Trouble for International Admissions?

i had a plan, but the world kept burning so i tossed the plan and instead talk about liz cheney, brett kavanaugh, a person’s right to privacy and bodily autonomy, and what you can do about it as a leader on a college campus.

i share excerpts from a few statements made by inspiring campus leaders around the country – including a student association – and help you prepare to lead from your values as students and colleagues return to campus.

#6. Power. Competence. Courage. Perception.