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• Summer Series: Certificate Program for Activate and Inspire the Manager in You.

  • Start
    11 Jul 2024
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    (EDT)
  • End
    22 Aug 2024
  •  
    (EDT)
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    online

  Register

  Activate and Inspire the Manager in You. 

  Join us this summer to grow your skill sets in this critical area!  This series consists of 4 webinars delivered online and recorded for your convenience PLUS a unique certificate program where you can earn a credential from The League.  

  This certificate program is offered to League members as a complementary outcomes driven capstone to our Summer 4-part webinar series.  You do not have to be enrolled in this certificate to attend the webinars.  Be sure to register for all webinars you plan to attend.

  To receive this certificate, participants will be expected to complete the following:

  1.  Attend in person or listen to all FOUR webinars by the expected completion date.  

  2.  By the end of the program, complete the workbook for this program and submit via email by Friday, August 30, 2024. 

  3.  Attend TWO virtual chats that are one week after each webinar to discuss your thoughts on the material, engage with others, work through challenges you may have and learn from others.  

  Participant workbooks will be reviewed by League guides for this program and certificates will be issued virtually with a LinkedIn badge as part of the award. 

  MORE INFORMATION: The Global Leadership League and our Advocate partner CIS Abroad have teamed up to offer a virtual webinar series and certificate this summer to help you enter the new academic year empowered and ready to rock-n-roll. 
  

  As international educators, our roles encompass a range of skills that contribute to the overall success of our team and achievement of our goals. Many of us are thrust into managing people or budgets without any formal training or education. What to do? 
  

  We must understand our own strengths and challenges, know how to use our connections, learn how to analyze the right data to inform decisions, and ultimately apply our skills to advocate for change for ourselves or our organizations. 
  

  In this webinar series you will learn how to:
  

  • Vanquish Imposter Thoughts by learning the 5 strategies to address them. 
  • Leverage Your Networks through understanding the barriers you face and why.
  • Harness the Power of Data so you have the info you need to make decisions.
  • Advocate for What you Need by building a business case that appeals to logic AND emotion

  This series consists of 4 webinars PLUS the opportunity to complete a certificate program where you will engage with a personal learning workbook and meet in a few chat rooms to discuss. This is an amazing way to showcase your knowledge and also network and learn from others.  You do not have to be signed up for the certificate to attend any of the webinars.  The webinars are only available (and free) to League members and the certificate will cost $99 USD for League members.

  Please note you must register for EACH webinar you plan to attend PLUS register and pay the nominal fee for the certificate so that we can ensure you receive all the appropriate log in details. Start your registration for each event at our events page. 

  Your guides for this amazing Summer Workshop and Certificate Series

  Kris Holloway, President and CEO, CIS Abroad

  Sarah Spencer, Founder, Onpoint Global Strategies & Consulting and Sr. Leader at the Global Leadership League

  Cynthia Banks, Faculty Director, U. of Colorado Boulder and Sr. Leader at the Global Leadership League

  
  

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• Summer Series: Webinar #3 Activate and Inspire the Manager in You.

  • When
    31 Jul 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

  Register

  Activate and Inspire the Manager in You. 

  Join us this summer to grow your skill sets in this critical area!  This series consists of 4 webinars delivered online and recorded for your convenience PLUS a unique certificate program where you can earn a credential from The League.  Learn more about the certificate HERE.

  Webinar #3  Harness the power of using the right data.

  The Challenge: It’s hard to know how to find, analyze and use data to see if you are being successful in achieving your goals or in making your case for more resources. We may have heard the term “data-informed decision-making” but not know how it applies to our work. With so much data at our fingertips, it’s hard to know what data to pay attention to that help us work smarter and not harder.

  The Impact of not addressing it: Digital technology has given us unprecedented access to data. If we don’t know what information to look at, we risk making decisions based on the wrong information OR WORSE, we don’t make decisions due to analysis paralysis.

  Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn key data terminologies such as conversion rates, KPI’s, etc, as they relate to our field.
  • Understand what it means to analyze and mine data.
  • Identify tools and strategies related to data that can help you address your barriers to success.

  Host: Scott Tayloe, COO, CIS Abroad

  Guest Star: Marci Heidt, Assistant Director of Advising and Programming, Global Carolina Education Abroad Office, University of South Carolina

  MORE INFORMATION: The Global Leadership League and our Advocate partner CIS Abroad have teamed up to offer a virtual webinar series and certificate this summer to help you enter the new academic year empowered and ready to rock-n-roll. 
  

  As international educators, our roles encompass a range of skills that contribute to the overall success of our team and achievement of our goals. Many of us are thrust into managing people or budgets without any formal training or education. What to do? 
  

  We must understand our own strengths and challenges, know how to use our connections, learn how to analyze the right data to inform decisions, and ultimately apply our skills to advocate for change for ourselves or our organizations. 
  

  In this webinar series you will learn how to:
  

  • Vanquish Imposter Thoughts by learning the 5 strategies to address them. 
  • Leverage Your Networks through understanding the barriers you face and why.
  • Harness the Power of Data so you have the info you need to make decisions.
  • Advocate for What you Need by building a business case that appeals to logic AND emotion

  This series consists of 4 webinars PLUS the opportunity to complete a certificate program where you will engage with a personal learning workbook and meet in a few chat rooms to discuss. This is an amazing way to showcase your knowledge and also network and learn from others.  You do not have to be signed up for the certificate to attend any of the webinars.  The webinars are only available (and free) to League members and the certificate will cost $99 USD for League members.

  Please note you must register for EACH webinar and the Certificate program so that we can ensure you receive all the appropriate log in details. Start your registration for each event at our events page. 

  Your guides for this amazing Summer Workshop and Certificate Series

  Kris Holloway, President and CEO, CIS Abroad

  Sarah Spencer, Founder, Onpoint Global Strategies & Consulting and Sr. Leader at the Global Leadership League

  Cynthia Banks, Faculty Director, U. of Colorado Boulder and Sr. Leader at the Global Leadership League

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• League Lasso Writer's Circle: Finding the Story

  • When
    06 Aug 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

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  Writing well helps you advance in your career, not just because people are persuaded by the insights you convey in a piece of writing but because writing helps you generate those insights in the first place. Writing helps you think. Whether you want to start a Substack, write for academic journals, produce a report, design a program, create a social media campaign, you need to start with telling a story.

  Which means you need to find the story. Not just an opening anecdote to set the scene, but the story that illuminates your project—that is, the story of what drives you to write about this particular subject.

  In this workshop, attendees will engage in ‘find the story’ writing exercises from the field of creative nonfiction that can help your writing in any project become more composed: clearer, more textured, more meaningful.

  Presenter: Dr. Amy Muse

  
  

   Dr. Amy Muse is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. She teaches courses in essay-writing, professional editing, and dramatic literature and has written books on playwrights Sarah Ruhl and Annie Baker and essays on theater and travel. She has presented on the use of reflective writing in study abroad at the Forum on Education Abroad; directed over a dozen study abroad programs in Athens, Rome, Istanbul, and Glasgow; held a Fulbright award in Greece; and currently serves on the editorial board of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.

  About the League Lasso:
  The League Lasso, launched in 2021, offers quarterly programs to support writing development, and skill-building for a variety of genres. The League Lasso is a trusted space for League members to inspire, create, and share their writings with others.

  Event Host/Facilitator: Dana Tottenham
  Director, League Lasso
  Emory University
  Email: dana.tottenham@emory.edu

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• Summer Series: Webinar #4 Activate and Inspire the Manager in You.

  • When
    14 Aug 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

  Register

  Activate and Inspire the Manager in You. 

  Join us this summer to grow your skill sets in this critical area!  This series consists of 4 webinars delivered online and recorded for your convenience PLUS a unique certificate program where you can earn a credential from The League.  Learn more about the certificate HERE.

  Webinar #4  Advocate for what you need

  The Challenge: It’s hard to know how to advocate for our own or our office’s needs, especially in a resource-scarce environment. Those needs might be: more staff, higher payer, more benefits or a change to office culture, or other tangible/intangible resources. No matter what, we have to be willing to get uncomfortable, be okay with uncertainty, and build a business case for support.

  The Impact (of not addressing this): If we do not know how to harness our power (ourselves, our networks, our data, our resources) to ask for what we need, we will stay exactly where we are. That’s the opposite of progress and the opposite of how we learn and grow.

  Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn about Cialdini’s “Six Principles of Persuasion” and set your priorities.
  • Understand what influences decision-making in you and in the person/s you are trying to influence.
  • Learn how to use verbal and nonverbal language for positive effect.
  • Learn how to build your business case through appealing to logic AND emotion.

  Host: Kris Holloway, President & CEO, CIS Abroad

  MORE INFORMATION: The Global Leadership League and our Advocate partner CIS Abroad have teamed up to offer a virtual webinar series and certificate this summer to help you enter the new academic year empowered and ready to rock-n-roll. 
  

  As international educators, our roles encompass a range of skills that contribute to the overall success of our team and achievement of our goals. Many of us are thrust into managing people or budgets without any formal training or education. What to do? 
  

  We must understand our own strengths and challenges, know how to use our connections, learn how to analyze the right data to inform decisions, and ultimately apply our skills to advocate for change for ourselves or our organizations. 
  

  In this webinar series you will learn how to:
  

  • Vanquish Imposter Thoughts by learning the 5 strategies to address them. 
  • Leverage Your Networks through understanding the barriers you face and why.
  • Harness the Power of Data so you have the info you need to make decisions.
  • Advocate for What you Need by building a business case that appeals to logic AND emotion

  This series consists of 4 webinars PLUS the opportunity to complete a certificate program where you will engage with a personal learning workbook and meet in a few chat rooms to discuss. This is an amazing way to showcase your knowledge and also network and learn from others.  You do not have to be signed up for the certificate to attend any of the webinars.  The webinars are only available (and free) to League members and the certificate will cost $99 USD for League members.

  Please note you must register for EACH webinar and the Certificate program so that we can ensure you receive all the appropriate log in details. Start your registration for each event at our events page. 

  Your guides for this amazing Summer Workshop and Certificate Series

  Kris Holloway, President and CEO, CIS Abroad

  Sarah Spencer, Founder, Onpoint Global Strategies & Consulting and Sr. Leader at the Global Leadership League

  Cynthia Banks, Faculty Director, U. of Colorado Boulder and Sr. Leader at the Global Leadership League

  
  

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• Workshop: Lead Better, Live Better with Mindfulness

  • When
    15 Aug 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

  Register

  As we prepare for the end of summer and the beginning of the fall, take time to pause and reflect. Self-care is not an indulgence; it is part of effective leadership.

  Join us in this transformative workshop, where you'll refine and elevate your leadership through the integration of mindfulness practices. Whether you're an established or emerging leader, or just starting your mindful leadership journey, this workshop provides a unique opportunity to enhance both individual and workplace effectiveness and resiliency, including:

  • The essence of mindfulness: Understand how mindfulness fosters focus, self-awareness, compassion, and empathy. Learn practical strategies to incorporate into your leadership routine.
    

  • Mindful practices - The breath as a foundation: Recognize the pivotal role of breath in mindfulness, bridging personal and professional realms. Explore various breathing techniques and their application in leadership contexts.
    

  • Workplace mindfulness: Learn practical approaches to implementing mindfulness in the workplace. Address challenges and resistance to mindfulness adoption in a professional environment.

  Outcomes for this workshop include:

  Increased Self-Awareness:  Gain a deeper understanding of yourself, leading to increased self-awareness. Recognize your strengths, challenges, and potential triggers, enabling you to make more conscious choices in your professional and personal lives.

  Improved Resilience: Participants learn practical strategies to build resilience, enabling one to lead or participate in teams more effectively through times of uncertainty and change. Mindfulness develops the ability to remain calm and composed under pressure, adapt more readily to change, and bounce back from adversity with greater ease 

  Foster a Culture of Well-Being: Understand how to cultivate a culture of well-being within your organizations by promoting mindfulness practices among teams. By prioritizing employee well-being and creating a supportive environment for mindfulness practice, you will have a healthier, more engaged and productive team.

  Leadership Effectiveness: Ultimately, as a participant, you will emerge from the workshop with refined or new leadership skills and a deeper understanding of how mindfulness can elevate your effectiveness. You will be better equipped to make decisions, inspire and motivate your team and support colleagues to create a positive impact within your organization and community. 

  Your Facilitators: 

  
  

  Julie L. Bryant, Vice President for student success at Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL), leads the team providing student success solutions for colleges and universities across North America.  In addition, Julie is a certified yoga and meditation teacher who leads regular mindfulness sessions for RNL co-workers and other groups.  She has been a yoga student for over 25 years.  Julie has been a member of RNL Women’s Networking group, a past member of the Women Lead Change steering committee and has moderated several Women in Higher Education panel sessions at RNL’s National Conferences.  She is a graduate of Cornell College (IA).

  
  

  
  

  With a career spanning over 25 years, Dr. Theresa Ricke-Kiely has made significant contributions to nonprofit leadership, management, and mindfulness. Her early work involved supporting and advocating for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, leading to her role as director of a large residential program in New York. In academia, she has taught and administered programs at Marist College, the University of South Carolina Upstate, the University of St Thomas, and the University of Notre Dame. Now, she is a faculty member at the University of Arizona's School of Government and Public Policy, teaching leadership and nonprofit management. She is also a “coach-sultant”, providing mindful leadership coaching and nonprofit consulting. An accomplished author, her recent publication, "The Path to Mindful Leadership: Practices for Nonprofit Success," underscores her expertise and commitment to the field.

  
  

  
  

  Sarah E. Spencer is the founder of OnPoint Global Strategies & Coaching, supporting global education with strategy and solutions, leadership and team development and professional coaching. She partners with established and emerging leaders and managers, and mid-career professionals who want to advance or improve their leadership skills, or move in or out of the sector through the entire employment process. She is also a founding member of the Global Leadership League and held a variety of leadership positions at the University of St. Thomas. She continues to play an active role in the global education sector with trainings and thought leadership after serving on diverse committees and elected board positions, including NAFSA, Forum on Education Abroad and advisory boards.

  
  

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