VIRTUAL: Women Faculty Forum Workshop Series: Tools and Tricks for Thriving in the New Normal, Part 2: Difficult Conversations

Event time: 
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
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Calendar Speaker/Performer: 
Laura Freebairn-Smith
Event description: 

WFF is excited to launch a four-part, interactive workshop series with Laura Freebairn-Smith: “Tools and Tricks for Thriving in the ‘New Normal.’” The series will guide faculty in developing new strategies to effectively manage the added time pressures of doing it all—teaching, advising, serving on academic committees, and conducting research from home—during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic. Laura currently teaches leadership at Yale’s Drama School, and diversity and team building in the Executive MBA program at Yale’s School of Management.

Part 2: Difficult Conversations: In this workshop, we explore how to navigate difficult conversations – ranging from how to ask a colleague to carry their weight on a project to dealing with microaggressions and harassment. We will discuss how to decide whether to engage in the conversation in the first place, what stance to take when communicating, and when to consider the alternatives. As a result of the Difficult Conversations workshop, you will be able to recognize the following:

-How to define the learning and judging stances of a conversation
-How to identify intent and impact within a conversation
-When it is worthwhile to confront an issue, and when it is not
-The many ways a confrontation can go wrong, how to maximize chances that it goes right, and how to course-correct when it doesn’t

Please contact Oana Capatina at wff@yale.edu for more information.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance