Managing From the Middle Learning Collaborative

Effectively Communicating as a Supervisor

Overview:

Whether you are a supervisor of professional staff or of students, we all benefit from strong communication skills. This session will focus on strategies for effectively communicating as a supervisor, including how to have difficult conversations.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify appropriate channels for communicating with staff and students depending on the desired outcome
• Practice giving and receiving feedback
• Identify strategies for engaging in difficult conversations with staff and students

Managing Up: How to Lead When You Aren’t the Boss

Overview:

All of us likely report to someone on our campus or within our organization. Managing up, or taking steps that help make your supervisor’s job easier, can help to strengthen your relationship with your manager and make it easier to move priorities forward. This session explores what managing up is and is not, as well as skills to effectively do it.

Learning Objectives:

• Define what it means to “manage up”
• Identify effective strategies for managing up with supervisors
• Demonstrate how to provide solutions to your supervisor when presented with a problem

Making the Case for Prevention & Recovery with Administrators

Overview:

Although we, as AOD professionals, know the value of our work, it can sometimes be challenging to make the case to others. Join us and a panel of higher education administrators as their share their tips for how to engage administrators around prevention and recovery to increase your likelihood of success.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe strategies for engaging leadership around AOD related issues
• Identify data sources that can influence administrators to support AOD programming

Putting it Into Practice

Overview:

Now that you have heard from senior administrators, it is time to put it into practice. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss lessons learned from the panel and work with your peers to develop a strategy for engaging your own administration around an issue or need that your campus is facing.

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a strategy for engaging your own administration around an issue or need that your campus is facing
• Demonstrate how to use data to support requests to administrators

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