Peak Performance Practices of Highly Effective and Happy Faculty Faculty are hardworking professionals who do good, yet sometimes forget to discern which activities are worthy of their time and energy. Drawn to fit into academic culture by complaining about how hard they work, faculty secretly worry that they are not working effectively. This practical, interactive workshop designed for faculty and administrators and based on studies on faculty productivity, peak performance, work-life balance, and work satisfaction will distill the work habits and practices of the most successful and engaged academics. Help your faculty get in charge of those to-do lists so they can teach well, produce the research that one's institution requires, and achieve life balance.
Participants will:
- Develop their Pyramid of Power, a vision about their careers and lives.
- Anchor time management to their Pyramid to focus power on important tasks producing results with high job satisfaction.
- Achieve congruency between intended and actual time use through six accountability methods.
Faculty implementing a Peak Performance System will practice these work habits of Highly Effective Faculty:
- Focus on teaching methods that result in high learning from students (Bain, 2006; Walvoord, 2007).
- Write regularly and improve scholarly production through colleagues’ suggestions (Boice, 2000; Gray, 2005).
- Apply social/emotional intelligence skills to develop and maintain a network of mutually supportive colleagues/students with whom they share responsibilities, thus decreasing work load while increasing connection in their spheres of influence (Robertson, 2003).
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