Educators

New Deans Seminar (Barcelona) - SOLD OUT

Register now for this "must-attend" event that provides insightful advice on how to handle the first few years in your new role.
Date(s)
February 18​ – 19​
Location
Barcelona, Spain
Event Type
Seminar Icon Seminars
Agenda:
Participants will learn:
  • expected and intended role of the dean as a function of the institution and environment.
  • specific ways to articulate an effective agenda that engages the most important stakeholders early, navigate the (sometimes)-competing agendas, and remain focused on the most critical tasks.
  • how to balance the demands of a deanship with one’s personal life and priorities.
This session will start by dispelling some commonly held myths about strategy and strategic planning. It will challenge participants to think about these two elements in a way that creates excitement around the school’s strategic intent by all stakeholders.
Explore the strategic and tactical aspects of managing external relationships with various stakeholders. Topics for discussion include identifying stakeholders and their interests and developing synergistic and sustainable alliances within industry and academia.
This will be a small group session where participants will first discuss questions most pertinent to their context, and the facilitators will answer questions.
Learn how to establish successful donor relations, fund- and friend-raising approaches, effectively cultivating and managing an advisory council and board development with meaningful engagement with its members.
Deans spend a considerable amount of time leading faculty and staff and managing areas involving personnel, budget, accreditation, etc. The focus of this session is to understand how to develop thoughtful, comprehensive, and strategic approaches to responding to various issues within their school/college and across campus.
Customized degree programs and delivery systems are the norm for students, faculty, and administrators today. Are your current and potential customized programs the right fit for your business school? Are they optimizing resources for sustainability while meeting student demand? We will discuss ways to answer these questions as well as potential new revenue streams based on your mission, strategic priorities, unique qualities and/or local needs, and resource(s)
This session will use the information discussed in the seminar to develop a preliminary roadmap for your role as Dean and create a comprehensive “takeaway” that participants can refer to as a decision framework. The session will also include time for any remaining issues the participants would like to discuss.
A panel of experienced deans will share the insights and best practices they learned during their deanship.