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Power, Influence & Negotiation
Instructor: Sarah Staley
Date: October 22, 2009
Time: 9:00-1:00
Register By: Registration deadline for this class is September 25, 2009, inquire as to availability after the deadline
Location: Center for Workplace Development, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA
Would you like to know how to negotiate more effectively at work? Every time you engage in joint problem-solving or decision-making with your colleagues, you are negotiating. Working collaboratively in an academic environment requires skills that include negotiation, positive persuasion, and a keen understanding of organizational politics and practices. Opportunities to negotiate are endless. All of us, regardless of position, whether we use formal or informal organizational power, are negotiating and influencing with and without authority every day.
You will begin to recognize opportunities for creative negotiation and win-win collaborations, while at the same time increasing your own sense of empowerment and organizational engagement.
What you’ll learn:
• To use your own influence in order to change or reinforce other’s attitudes, opinions, or behaviors
• Strategies for developing strong relationships and win-win outcomes through negotiation and clear communication
• To recognize and leverage your sources of power to get things done in your role
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Politics, Power and Influence
Presenter: Mary Shapiro, Associate Professor, Simmons School of Management and Faculty Affiliate, Center for Gender in Organization
Date: October 27, 2009
Time: 9:00-1:00
Register By: October 20th at: http://politicspowerworkshop.eventbrite.com
Location: Simmons College, School of Management, 5th Floor
• Wrestling with politics in your organization?
• Budgets and head-count shrinking?
• Coalitions shifting?
If you said yes to any of these questions, you will want to attend this session. Professor Mary Shapiro will help you reframe politics as the process by which scarce resources are allocated across competing demands, and strategize how to participate in that process. You’ll participate in an experiential exercise to test out uses of power and influence, and then develop strategies for using both in your own organizations.
Register by October 20th at: http://politicspowerworkshop.eventbrite.com/
The Susan Vogt Leadership Fellows Program September — May
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The Susan Vogt Leadership Fellows Program honors the remarkable work and spirit of Susan Vogt, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Wellesley College from 2000 to 2003. The Fellowship carries on her legacy by connecting, developing, and supporting emerging leaders within the schools of The Boston Consortium. The Fellowship seeks to increase awareness of the Consortium’s values and activities at the grassroots level, connect and engage practitioners in meaningful projects, and foster collaboration and camaraderie in the next generation of leaders.
Advisory Board:
| Mark Braun Boston University |
Lauren Turner Northeastern University |
Dr. Joseph Raelin Northeastern University |
Eloise McGaw Wellesley College |
| Colleen Wheeler Wheaton College |
Angela Davis Berklee College of Music |
Phil DiChiara The Boston Consortium |
June Kevorkian The Boston Consortium |
TBC Board Member Liaison:
Rick Wallick
Wheaton College
Program Benefits
Vogt Fellows will have excellent opportunities for development and networking. They will be able to develop their leadership, and reflection skills through self-assessment and a collaborative final project. Along the way, they will build a peer-advising and coaching network that can last well beyond the Fellowship year. Fellows will develop personal learning plans to guide them and will avail themselves of Fellowship sponsors who will support them in accomplishing their goals. To further their development, each Fellow will be paired with an executive coach.Colleges and Universities will enjoy numerous benefits from their participation in the Vogt Leadership Fellows Program, including the ability to:
• foster employee capacity to lead effective and meaningful local change
• initiate an important change project at their school
• retain and reinvigorate highly valued employees
• improve collaboration among individuals in their own school participating in Consortium activities
• develop stronger connections among the Consortium schools
• enhance the value of membership in the Consortium
Goals for Fellows
If selected for the Susan Vogt Leadership Fellows Program, each Fellow will:
• participate in The Consortium Leaderful Series, facilitated by Joe Raelin, The Asa Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University
• conduct a practical, collaborative project
• contribute to a “network of agitators for the good” within and across member schools
• convene, connect, and coordinate Consortium participants within their own school following the extraordinary example set by Susan Vogt at Wellesley College
To support these goals, Fellows will:
• meet with other Fellows as a learning team throughout the year
• develop a personal learning plan customized to their goals and project
• enlist a sponsor from their institution
• have access to higher education leaders in a variety of functions, such as CFO, VP of Human Resources, and CIO
• have access to high-quality training, which will be provided at a reduced cost to the sponsoring school, through the Consortium’s Professional Development Series
Vogt Fellow Candidates
All member schools are encouraged to participate in the Fellowship. Each Consortium school may sponsor two Fellows. Sponsoring institutions pledge to support their candidate’s full participation in the yearlong program by providing release time (approximately two days each month) and normal salary. The institution will also pay a tuition fee of $1,500 per fellow.
Candidates should demonstrate a deep commitment to higher education, their institution, and The Boston Consortium. They should have a strong interest in their personal and professional development and in the development of others. Candidates should be capable of guiding transformative change within their institution.
To learn if your school is participating in the program and their nomination process contact your Human Resources office.
Application deadline June 1, 2009.
Vogt Alumni
Suffolk University
Susan Bonvouloir
Lauri Umansky
Please refer to the brochure for application procedures.