Leadership

Leadership Certificate Program

EVERY FRIDAY, WINTER QUARTER

Humanities-Social Sciences | Room 259

The Division of Graduate Studies offers graduate students a Leadership Certificate Program (GSLP), consisting of a sequence of classes on leadership theory and practical skills. The program takes place every Friday of winter quarter, 1:00–4:30 p.m. Pacific Time, with the exception of the first meeting, January 5, which meets 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Pacific.

To join the program, your faculty adviser or principal investigator must recommend you with an email to Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies Peter Biehl at vpdgs@ucsc.edu and state in the email that you are in good academic standing and able to commit to attending every meeting.

Certification of completion of the GSLP will be provided by the Division of Graduate Studies. The UCSC Academic Senate Graduate Council has reviewed and approved the program, and completion of the program is recorded as an official credential on your student record and transcript.

Zoom virtual attendance is available to those attending classes or conducting research remotely or needing to attend virtually for accessibility or to accommodate their schedules.

The maximum number of graduate students in the program cohort: 25

Values-Driven Leadership

The first meeting, an all-day workshop, focuses on exploring personal values and learning how you define and prioritize them. Interactive work will probe how definitions and the priorities of values vary among us. Drs. De Ciantis and Hyatt will guide the cohort in learning ways to stay connected to, communicate, and demonstrate your values as a leader, while also being open to learning about and understanding different value definitions and priorities among your colleagues.

Executive Public Speaking

As a leader, it’s important to understand how to leverage key moments to connect with and empower your team. This workshop will cover how to help folks open up and engage in meaningful dialogues, conduct impactful meetings, and encourage collaboration between teammates.

Collaborative Teamwork

This interactive workshop begins by drawing on the collective wisdom of participants with a brainstorm on the essentials of a successful team. It continues with an exploration of collaboration best practices for both group leaders and contributors. The content draws on the presenter’s experience, Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, and Successful Manager’s Handbook by Susan Gebelein et al. The closing segment invites participants to reflect on their strengths and challenges with collaborative work practices and identify a specific area they can focus on improving.

The Power of Clear Communication: Building Effective Performance Management Practices

This workshop focuses on creating a culture of clear expectations, in which all parties understand their roles and responsibilities, increasing productivity and professional growth while building trust. In this class you will discuss the importance of clear two-way communication for productivity and performance management, strategize for effective check-ins, and understand the importance of documenting employee work.

Conflict Resolution for Leaders

An overview of de-escalation methods and conflict management skills. Participants will gain a greater understanding of how conflict works, why it happens, and practical skills and steps to address conflict. Participants will engage in an informative, interactive, and fun process that aims to improve our capacity to listen without defensiveness, speak without offending, de-escalate anger, and have greater potential for reaching mutually satisfying solutions.

Recruiting, Interviewing, Developing, Retaining Talent

Learn best recruiting and interview practices, gain practice interviewing with role play as interviewer and interviewee, and learn best employee retention strategies, such as providing employee professional development programs and using proven motivational and engagement strategies.

Listening, Mentoring, Coaching, Advising | Negotiating

Listening—actively, intentionally, and with empathy—is essential for developing the skills of mentoring, coaching, and advising. Listening well also aids team performance and enhances professional and personal relationships. In part one of this two-part interactive workshop, learn how to listen conscientiously and the differences between mentoring, coaching, and advising.

In part two, we will explore negotiation theories and strategies, create space for dialogue and preparation for an upcoming negotiation, and offer ample opportunities to practice and apply learning. Through case studies and real-world scenarios, this workshop will empower you with the tools to communicate and lead effectively, build win-win scenarios, and leave a lasting impact.

Burnout: Recognizing, Preventing, Managing in Yourself and among Your Team

Burnout is a state of exhaustion that can impact our work, personal lives, health and overall sense of well being and purpose. As a leader, you not only need to recognize and take steps to prevent your own burnout, but you also need to aid your team members in doing the same. In this meeting, we’ll discuss how to recognize burnout, as distinct from lesser but easily recovered from fatigue, common causes and symptoms, and learn strategies to recognize, prevent, and manage burnout and how to help your team members do the same.

Lessons from the History of Leadership Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

An overview of the history of DEI efforts in the U.S., including the latest legal efforts to end affirmative action at universities and to end DEI programs at educational institutions and in government and private industry in our society.

Proactive Leadership Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Lorato Anderson will continue the leadership DEI topic with interactive discussion and strategies to proactively engage in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging from a leadership position and perspective.

Cultivating Mindful Leadership in Times of Change and Possibility |

Psychological Safety: Creating a Safe Place for Connection and Innovation

In these times of continuous change the world is calling us to lead ourselves and others in a different way. Mindful leadership is about taking initiative in and with your life with authenticity, awareness, and confidence. Practicing mindfulness cultivates our ability to pay intentional attention to our experience from moment to moment, teaching us to become patiently and spaciously aware of what is going on in our mind and body without judgment, reaction, and distraction. In this experiential session of the first half of this meeting, you will learn three body-mind practices that will help you introduce mindfulness in your everyday life and work, while further developing internally driven leadership.

The second half of this meeting in workshop format aims to provide both a theoretical understanding of psychological safety and practical tools for leaders to use to implement psychological safety within their teams and organizations. The workshop encourages self-reflection, open communication, fostering a culture of trust, collaboration, and innovation. At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define psychological safety
• Understand the four stages of psychological safety
• Recognize the primary components and effects of safe environments
• Understand the tools to reframe thinking and check practices

Academic Leadership

Lori Kletzer, Ph.D., Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

Join CP/EVC Lori Kletzer for a conversation about her journey into academic leadership, the choices her journey entailed, and the responsibilities of leadership.

Lori Kletzer, Ph.D., is campus provost and executive vice chancellor and professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz. She was provost and dean of faculty at Colby College from 2010 to July 2017. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Vassar College. She has been affiliated with UC Santa Cruz since 1992, and she has contributed to the campus as chair of the Economics Department, chair and vice-chair of the Academic Senate, and vice provost and dean of Graduate Studies. She has held teaching and research appointments at Williams College, the University of Washington, the Brookings Institution, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Global Network for Advanced Management, and at UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She is the author of two books on the impact of trade in manufacturing on employment, jobs, and workers and numerous journal articles. Her research focuses on the domestic labor market effects of globalization and policy responses.

Certificate Awarding Party

Peter Biehl, Ph.D., Vice Provost and Dean, Division of Graduate Studies

VPDGS Peter Biehl will award the leadership certificates, following which we will enjoy a party!

Peter Biehl, Ph.D., vice provost and dean of the Division of Graduate Studies, held numerous leadership positions at the University of Buffalo in support of graduate and international student education prior to his position at UC Santa Cruz. His last position at the University of Buffalo was in the Office of the Provost, where he worked to enhance the national and international recognition of the university’s faculty, a project supported by a fellowship from the American Council on Education.

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