Reaching across the Quad: Building Relationships across the Entire Organization and Communicating Effectively
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | 1:30PM–2:30PM CT | Great Lakes C, Fourth Floor
Session Type:
General Session
You are communicating all the time, whether you intend to or not. Throughout this session, we will explore ways to be more intentional about formal and informal communications with all campus constituents. Having a deep understanding of university players and politics and acceptable communication channels, methods, and tone is critical to successful leadership. We will identify key university/college stakeholders and create an action plan for strategically developing relationships across the institution. An important part of leadership is having difficult conversations, so we will explore strategies for tackling communication challenges.
Outcomes: Create an action plan for fostering good working relationships through proactive communications * Gain a perspective on strategic communications to campus leadership and understand the importance of formal and informal communication methods across all levels of the institution * Recognize and practice tackling the challenges of delivering difficult or bad news in a constructive way * Create a communications plan for a large project, including different communication content and style for different audiences
Outcomes: Create an action plan for fostering good working relationships through proactive communications * Gain a perspective on strategic communications to campus leadership and understand the importance of formal and informal communication methods across all levels of the institution * Recognize and practice tackling the challenges of delivering difficult or bad news in a constructive way * Create a communications plan for a large project, including different communication content and style for different audiences
