The
2018 Graduate Program and Practitioner Workshop (formerly known as Leaders Conference) will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago on Tuesday, March 27, in conjunction with ACHE’s Congress.
In addition to the keynote speaker,
David B. Nash, MD, MPA, Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health, the Workshop will feature a program focusing on difficult conversations – both those planned and unplanned. As educators, we have a special role as facilitators when those conversations involve students or colleagues regarding student issues. Most of us, however, have little or no training in how to handle these conversations as they arise. We dodge them or handle them poorly, missing an opportunity for important learning among our burgeoning managers and leaders who will undoubtedly need these skills. This year’s program will provide an interactive session in which participants will learn tools that they can apply to familiar difficult conversations. Following the joint breakfast keynote,
Ann Rosser, experienced coach, mediator, and management trainer, will discuss how to prepare for planned difficult conversations and offer a checklist that can be used both for these conversations and as a foundation to think about responses to difficult conversations that arise spontaneously. She will lead a discussion of two classroom scenarios involving polarizing comments by a student and reactions by the students who are most affected by them. The session will conclude with small group discussions of a third scenario involving a student complaint about a faculty member to an advisor.
Take advantage of early rates by
registering before rates increase on February 26th.