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WSU ADVANCE designed COACh Workshops to support women and under-represented minority (URM) faculty by providing communication and leadership strategies for all career stages.  

The Communications and Negotiations Workshop is designed for graduate students and early-career faculty.The aim of this seminar is to build understanding of mutual-interest-based negotiations and solution finding. Participants will be introduced to techniques synthesized from theater, negotiation, and leadership training to help them be more effective.

The Leadership Workshop is geared for tenured faculty, administrators, and staff already established in their careers. The goal of this workshop is to increase their capabilities to effect change within their organization. Topics will include leadership characteristics, the differences between leadership and management, and how to give feedback. Participants will also learn how to differentiate types of challenges, understand how roles determine strategies, identify the pressures behind the resistance to change, and learn how to use alliances.

2015 COACh Workshops

Communications & Negotiations: October 30, 2015, 8:30am-12:00pm
Leadership Seminar: October 30, 2015, 1:30pm-5:00pm
(Lunch will be provided between12:00pm-1:00pm.)

Registration Closes October 27, 2015

Both workshops will be held in the Silver Room at Best Western of Moscow 
1516 Pullman Road, Moscow, ID 83843

Speakers

Jane W. Tucker, Ph.D. has over thirty years of experience in higher education in both the administrative and teaching areas.  She taught negotiations classes in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke and is currently consultant faculty for COACh at the University of Oregon, supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.  She has taught negotiations and leadership in a number of ADVANCE programs at universities and serves as on-call faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership, where she does programs with leaders from both non-profit and corporate organizations.

Nancy Houfek brings nearly forty years of working with performers and public speakers to her consulting and coaching. A stage director, award-winning actor, and nationally recognized theater educator, Nancy presents workshops combining theater, negotiation and leadership techniques for corporations, think tanks, universities, and professional organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada.  At Harvard, where she was Head of Voice & Speech for the Tony Award winning American Repertory Theater from 1997- 2014, Nancy continues to teach in programs at the Kennedy School of Government, the Radcliffe Fellows, the Graduate School of Design and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. The Act of Teaching, a film of her work with Harvard faculty produced by the Bok Center, has been distributed to faculty development centers nationwide. Nancy holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, where she remained as an actor, director and coach for nearly a decade.

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 About ADVANCE at WSU

Our vision is to develop an inclusive research institution whose faculty are supported by a system that promotes career-long excellence for all. To that end, we focus on obstacles to recruiting, hiring, retaining, and advancing an exceptional, diverse faculty. 

Our goals are...

1) To increase the percentage of women faculty in target science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and URM faculty in all disciplines.

2) To support policies and practices to enhance recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and under-represented minority faculty.

3) To foster a positive, inclusive work environment through programs and career-development opportunities that include support at critical work/life transition points for all faculty.

4) To engage the WSU community to further the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation goals

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