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The Office of Professional Development and Faculty Affairs (PDFA) Campus Wide Leadership Series served over 500 participants in the spring of 2006, with an average audience range of 125 to 150. According to Robert M. Klein, PhD, Associate Dean for Professional Development and Faculty Affairs, "The leadership series has been one of our most consistently well attended programs. We look forward to a spectacular spring season again this year." All events are held on the 1st Friday of the month with the kick-off presentation in 2007 being the exception, January 12. The series, which is co-sponsered by KU Hospital, KUSON, KUMCHR, KUPI, KUSAH, KU Office of Graduate Studies and KUSOM, is provided at no cost to the participants and lunch is provided to the first 125. For those unable to attend, video links are available next to each session and PowerPoint presentations are linked to each presenters name (if available). Six sessions are available from previous years too. |
 Robert M. Klein, PhD |
JAN 12 , 2007
Mindi McKenna, PhD, MBA
Assistant Professor, Rockhurst University Health Care Leadership
MBA Program and Executive Director, Healthcare Leadership Group
Handout | PowerPoint slides
OBJECTIVE: To explain how expectations and communication skills vary in a workforce/patient base, based on "generation," gender, work style preferences, and other factors; and to recommend ways of adapting your communication skills, whatever your generation, for successful encounters with your, staff, students or patients.
FEB 2, 2007Phyllis Kritek, RN, PhD, FAAN, Author: Negotiating at an Uneven Table
OBJECTIVE: This session will address the root causes of conflict and how negotiation becomes an essential strategy to resolve conflict. Power differentials will be examined, including those that come from positions of hierarchy, gender, and age differentials.
Video | PowerPoint slides
Mark Meyer M.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs SOM
Amy O'Brien-Ladner M.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division Director
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Patricia Sanders Hall
Vice President Ancillary Care
Hospital Executive Offices
KUMC
Moderator:
James (Jim) Dugan, PhD
Psychologist, Counseling and Educational Support Services
OBJECTIVE: To allow each member 10 minutes to present their style or method of leading in a multi-generational workforce/patient/academic environment. Each member of the panel will be selected to present a multigenerational range of methods. The narrator will then direct questions and answers at the end.
Video
APRIL 6 , 2007
RIEKE, Noon-1:00 p.m.
“How to Network for Success”
Denise Upah, President
Six Degrees Solutions, LLC
OBJECTIVE: To present tips, techniques and justification for the successful tool of using networking to advance ones career from any level to the next. (Regardless of which generational group characterizes one best, anyone can enrich their job experiences and overall career satisfaction by watching and listening to their colleagues, students, patients, and employees regardless of age. We all have a lot to share — and much to learn.)
MAY 4 , 2007
SON G013, Noon-1:00 p.m.
“How to Get Your Jayhawks to Fly as a Team”
Photo gallery of Bill Self's visit to the University of Kansas Medical Center
Bill Self, KU Men’s Basketball Coach
OBJECTIVE: Coach Self began his career as the KU Men’s Basketball Coach in April of 2003. To present the challenges and solutions to keeping everyone focused on the goal simultaneous to overcoming inherited handicaps, obstacles and limitations imposed on the job/task, public scrutiny, and the challenges one faces from multigenerational communication issues. This speaker will “fill the house and raise the roof” in an auditorium that seats 230.
Spring 2005 & 2006 presentations are available for viewing on-line.
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