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LIFTTM UW offers certification in the LIFT Curriculum.
LIFT Leadership
One size fits all leadership is not effective. Developing one leadership and motivational style for everyone does not work as effectively as designing strategies for each person, project and team that one leads. In school, in our work, and in our personal lives, we are and will be leaders. The leaders who are the most compelling and inspiring are often those with the courage to lead in a way that nurtures the human spirit - the whole person. This seminar provides the tools and concepts that form the foundation for these courageous acts.
This seminar provides participants the opportunity to
- understand the relationship between what is important in life and leadership
- explore fear and its debilitating role in research and teaching
- learn the dangers of dualist thinking and study techniques for leading through a both/and management style
- explore practical and compassionate ways to manage a project, build a team, lead the whole person, resolve conflicts, improve interpersonal skills, and lead a diverse research group
- understand the conceptual foundation for the Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (LIFT)
WORLDS: The Importance of Understanding
Whether you plan to stay in academics or pursue a career in industry or government, knowing how to think about key relationships in professional and personal lives will increase your effectiveness and influence.
WORLDS offers participants an opportunity to reflect deeply upon their relationship to understanding and its key role in leadership. This program is also used as a prerequisite for diversity training in universities and other organizations. Indeed, if people are not open to being open-minded or understanding, then diversity training will not accomplish what it is indended to do. WORLDS helps leaders adapt quickly and efficiently and in the midst of a changing and challenging world landscape, create trusting organizational communities.
Through multimedia and discussion, we will learn
- why humans become rigid in their point of view
- which institutional messages reinforce this process
- the dangers of being closed-minded in research and beyond
- the relationship of perception, fear, and love to understanding and leadership
- insights and ways to improve effectiveness regarding team dynamics and personal relationships
- methods to better develop and sustain trusting professional partnerships that move beyond unhealthy competition
- effective ways to enhance and utilize diversity in organizations
- how to elegantly work with different points of view
Communication Skills... Essential Tools for Success
This seminar, a popular program with graduate students around the country, is an in-depth and practical workshop on important communication skills central to one's success in laboratory, research, and industry settings.
In this seminar, we will explore how to
- improve effectiveness in laboratory and project teams by reducing misunderstanding
- implement proven approaches to understanding and to being open-minded ... key leadership, engineering, and scientific skills
- more easily reduce and eliminate disagreement and resolve inevitable and challenging conflicts elegantly
- hear what people are really saying and convey your viewpoint more accurately
- enhance your personal and professional relationships by preventing confusion and unnecessary arguing
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: A Foundation for Enhancing Professional and Personal Relationships
This fast-paced program, one of the most popular in the LIFT curriculum, has improved the lives of many students and offers a meaningful experience while having fun at the same time.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the most widely used instrument of its kind in the world. If you have already taken the MBTI, we encourage you to attend again... past participants report that the material is even more useful after a second experience.
In this seminar, we will explore how to
- improve effectiveness in academic, organizational, and project teams
- identify leadership & communication preferences in yourself and others
- improve work and personal relationships
- more easily reduce unnecessary disagreement and resolve inevitable and challenging conflicts elegantly
- better develop and sustain trusting professional partnerships that move beyond unhealthy competition
- better understand teaching, learning and research styles
- increase your awareness about giving and receiving feedback
- increase your productivity
How to be Influential in Graduate School and Beyond
This popular and active seminar enables participants to be influential communicators, better equipped to affect change in their research and work environments.
In this seminar, we will investigate
- developing strategies for improving your relationship with your advisor
- creating solutions for difficult advisor-advisee relationships
- building and sustaining more effective and productive relationships with fellow graduate students and postdocs
- leading and mentoring undergraduate colleagues
- why assertion training is so easy to understand and often difficult to implement
- understanding the world of faculty
Personal Leadership: Moving from Time Management to Life Management
Do you find yourself:
- not getting as much done as you'd like?
- easily distracted or distracting yourself?
- wasting time?
- completing lots of tasks, but not the stuff that you need to do to graduate?
- rationalizing your non-research activity too much?
- cleaning your home before studying and then not getting that much work done?
- wondering if this is what you really want to be doing?
In this final seminar of the LIFT core curriculum, participants reflect upon what is important in living a life well, and in this context learn critical skills to becoming more efficient and successful through improved self-management.
Beyond the Podium: The Deeper Side of Presenting Research and Teaching
This program covers not only typical presentation tips, but goes beyond to create a deeper understanding of what is occurring in an academic talk. Participants will discover how to create a compelling connection with their material and their audience. This workshop complements the core series of workshops.