Summer Seminar
Meeting of the Minds: Create an Engaging, Productive Workplace Culture
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Deans, directors, and senior faculty are invited to meet in the the Colorado Rocky Mountains, far away from the pressures of daily administration, for AACN’s 2020 Summer Seminar. Join us for an invigorating program that will sharpen individual leadership skills, reinforce team relationships, and magnify the impact you can have on moving an agenda forward and leading change. This year’s Summer Seminar will take place at the Sonnenalp Hotel, at the base of the Vail, Colorado ski resort. AACN invites academic nursing leaders, individually and in teams, to discover the keys to creating a positive organizational culture that celebrates the individual and bonds the collective.
Speaker
Dr. Frances Lucas
Dr. Frances Lucas is nationally known for her humorous keynote speeches and interactive, powerful workshops. As an Advanced Associate with Emergenetics International, she will be leading us on a three-day journey to better understand how we prefer to think and behave, how to build strong teams, and how lead change.
Dr. Lucas is a woman of firsts. She was named President of Millsaps College in January 2000, becoming the first female college president in Mississippi history. Prior to that post, Dr. Lucas served Emory University as Senior Vice-President for Campus Life, becoming the first woman to hold a vice-presidential role in that university’s 160-year history. At age 29, she was the youngest Vice-President for Student Affairs in the country and the first female Vice-President at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio. Dr. Lucas also served as a faculty member in Human Capital Development, Education, and Communications.
Without self-aware faculty and staff, high-performing teams and a positive culture, your nursing program will experience challenges in communication, collaboration, productivity and employee retention. Through the Meeting of the Minds, leaders are empowered to use their strengths to achieve their potential and organizations are given the tools to maximize performance and create positive cultures.
Agenda
4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Registration Open
6:00 - 7:00 pm.
Wine-and-Cheese Networking Reception
Guests are welcome and encouraged to attend.
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Registration and Light Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:30 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Meeting of the Minds
Academic leaders will perform far better if they better understand themselves and others. When people feel truly seen and heard, their job satisfaction and productivity will rise. This morning you will gain an understanding of the various ways you and others prefer to think. Helpful information and tools on how to approach various behavior styles, interpretation of other peoples’ differences, and cognitive diversity to improve outcomes will be elucidated. Strategies to enhance communication and collaboration for effective problem solving will be explicated.
Break from 10:15-10:45 a.m.
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Meeting of the Minds and Building Strong Teams
As leaders we tend to interpret the behaviors of others through our own lens, which can often be inaccurate. There are more productive and positive ways to respond to those who don’t behave like us. This session will offer insights into understanding of behavior styles aimed to strengthen team development, maximize the benefit of diversity in behavior and thinking, and examine current individual and team interactions. Examination of behavior to improve team functioning, communication and culture will be explored.
Break from 10:15-10:45 a.m.
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Light Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Leading Change
Colleges and universities are undergoing many changes and nursing programs are rarely fully understood by those who have power. Our leadership needs to be able to adjust and cope with unwanted changes and more importantly, understand how to lead change within our areas. Few leaders know how to lead change well. Therefore, it is important to learn how to do so by understanding that people support what they help create. There are some essential steps a leader can take to be far more successful at getting faculty and staff support for the changes. This session will offer the opportunity to recognize the stages of change, apply the wisdom of the attributes to manage change, and become open to different approaches for navigating change. Further, this session will address coping with unwanted change.
Break from 10:15-10:45 a.m.
