Leadership Essentials is an OFD workshop series for all faculty and librarians interested in enhancing their leadership and management skills. Leadership Essentials workshops are foundational for all faculty and librarians and particularly helpful for individuals who are spearheading a working group, running a lab, serving as a graduate or undergraduate program director, mentoring new hires, or chairing a committee. 

Programming for this series builds the foundational leadership and management skills that enable you to fly, including understanding your leadership style, time management, running effective meetings, moving from committee member to chair, and finding pathways to leadership. 

Foundational

Foundational leadership skills support faculty and librarians in all aspects of work. These workshops are offered every two to three years. Please email @email for more information about any of these topics. 

Communication & Work Relationships

In order to effectively advance your initiatives, faculty and librarians need to be able to advocate, negotiate, and lead from a place of collaboration and respect. These workshops, offered every two to three years, help you develop your ability to lead, even in challenging moments. 

  • Negotiation
  • Advocating for Your _______
  • Change Management
  • Difficult Conversations
  • Building High Quality Connections at Work
  • Dealing with Corrosive Connections at Work 
Angela De Oliveira, a white woman with brown hair and glasses, smiles in front of windowed wall.

Program Contact

Angela de Oliveira

Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Professor of Resource Economics

Dr. Angela C.M. de Oliveira provides vision and leadership for the Office of Faculty Development, focusing especially on leadership development, mentoring, mid-career, awards and recognition, as well as community, inclusion, and wellness programs to support healthy, equitable, thriving faculty and departments.
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