[ie-announce] Final Call: Register for the Informatics Europe Academic Leadership Development Course until 1 September

[Franziska Hauffe]

Dear Colleagues,

This is the final call for the Informatics Europe Academic Leadership 
Development Course:

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*Academic Leadership Development Course
* <https://www.informatics-europe.org/services/academic-leadership.html>

*Six Online Workshop Sessions:**
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*15 & 29 September, 6 & 20 October, 3 & 17 November (Tuesdays)
*10:00-11:30 CEST//*
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*Registration Deadline: **1 September 2020*
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Strong academic leaders in Informatics and Computing disciplines are 
needed now more than ever as Informatics has become a key driver in 
innovation and has become entangled in all aspects of society. Academic 
leaders in our field play an increasingly critical role in educating 
future computing professionals to engage in this work, in shaping the 
research that will deliver novel technologies that underpin future 
products and services and in effectively collaborating with diverse 
colleagues, partners, stakeholders, and disciplinary areas. But leading 
successfully in an academic environment is very challenging, in 
particular, due to the steadily increasing performance pressures in 
academia, for example, increasing competitiveness and accountability 
metrics, expanding workload, delivering on novel research topics, and 
recruiting young talented students to pursue a PhD position.

How do you address these challenges as an academic leader in a complex 
academic environment? How do you ‘do’ academic leadership? And how do 
you not just survive but thrive as a leader? Those and further questions 
will be addressed by Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/services/academic-leadership/facilitators.html> 
and Prof. Austen Rainer 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/services/academic-leadership/facilitators.html>, 
who both are senior Informatics/Computing academics with strong 
leadership backgrounds and experience and who complement that experience 
with evidence-based approaches to positive leadership practice.

With this 6 online workshop sessions, you will:

  * Appreciate the unique opportunities and challenges of academic
    leadership;
  * Evaluate your own strengths as an academic leader, to provide the
    foundation for a positive strengths-based approach to your leadership;
  * Locate your academic leadership within its wider context, so as to
    frame your decisions and actions as a leader;
  * Identify and practice simple techniques for helping you to survive
    and thrive as an academic leader;
  * Integrate evidence-based recommendations with reflection on your and
    others’ experience with individual, pair and small-group activities;
  * Develop a plan of action for growing as an academic leader.

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*Dates & Agenda *

This course will take place virtually via Zoom on *Tuesdays from 10:00 
to 11:30**(CEST)**/*/.*
Participants will need a device with video and audio and the ability to 
run Zoom live over an internet web browser.

The sessions are scheduled as follows:

  *
    *15.09.2020* Session 1: Intro/overview
  *
    *29.09.2020* Session 2: Leading Informatics in academia
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    *06.10.2020* Session 3: Knowing ourselves, leading ourselves
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    *20.10.2020* Session 4: Leading others - building collegial environments
  * *03.11.2020* Session 5: Leading others - having effective conversations
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    *17.11.2020* Session 6: Connecting leaders & where next

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*Target Audience
*

This course is intended to develop *new and emerging leaders in 
Informatics and Computing*. This is particularly appropriate *for 
early/middle career academics who have recently taken on substantive 
leadership roles*. Indicative examples are project leader, group leader, 
theme leader, or head of an institute, school, faculty, department (or 
equivalent in your institution); or any other academic leadership 
service roles. It will also be beneficial for those considering such roles.

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*Format*

This will be a highly interactive, practical, experiential course by 
computer scientists for computer scientists, co-led by two experienced 
facilitators, *Prof. Dr. Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Prof. Dr. Austen 
Rainer* (see bios here 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/services/academic-leadership/facilitators.html>). Each 
session will involve some form of the following as relevant to the topic:

  * pre-work (short videos, readings, exercises, etc.),
  * 90 minutes online group session (including break out groups),
  * post-work (to practice and reflect), and
  * use online tools (e.g., Zoom, Miro) as appropriate to the session.

The course will combine participants’ experiences of leading in academia 
with evidence-based positive leadership research. There will be 
opportunities for reflection through individual conversation, 
small-group activity, larger group discussion, and pre- and post-session 
activities.

This is an important time and space you are giving yourself. Because 
your time is important, we strongly encourage you to make a firm 
commitment to actively participate in the full 6-session course, i.e., 
attending all sessions and engaging in the pre- and post-work 
activities. These are important for building a trusted peer cohort and 
for time to engage, do, reflect, learn and grow.

The course will also encourage the emergence of a professional network 
in which attendees from the course can support each other in their 
post-workshop academic leadership and career progression.

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*Intended Outcomes
*

Takeaways from this course will include:

  * A clearer sense of your own leadership identity and style;
  * Strategies for self-care, self-management, life hacks, cognitive
    hacks, work-life integration, being a good role model;
  * An understanding of what makes people tick;
  * Strategies for identifying and developing people’s strengths and
    building a collegial culture;
  * Strategies for communicating powerfully through good attention,
    questions, listening, and dealing with challenging conversations;
  * An action plan for what to do next;
  * Opportunities to continue to engage with participants upon
    completion of the course.

All participants of the course will receive an *Informatics Europe 
Certificate* recognising their participation and engagement with the 
course.

There will be also opportunities to continue discussion with the 
facilitators and participants after the course has completed so as to 
support participants in their continued leadership development.

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*Registration
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**Registration Fees**: **

  * € 300 - Informatics Europe Members
  * € 350 - Non-Members

The registration fee must be paid by 4 September 2020.

The registration will close on *Tuesday, 1 September. *

*To register, please fill in this online form.* 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/survey/index.php/survey/index/sid/782815>

/* Please note that the course will take place provided that the minimum 
number of participants is reached./
/** Please note that the amount of the bank transfer will have to 
include any bank fee related to the transfer and/or processing./

In case you have any further questions regarding the course, please do 
not hesitate to contact our office (administration at informatics-europe.org).

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