Workshop #1: Coaching Strong Women in the Art of Strategic Persuasion

Session A

This workshop will help professional women be more effective when leading or participating in discussions, meetings, or group negotiations. Learn about strategic rather than reactive behaviors and effective speaking voices, while tuning out stress and tension, to make yourself heard. How one presents oneself and one's ideas is a key to their acceptance and your success. This workshop, which combines self-presentation, leadership training, and faculty development in an interactive format that encourages highly personal learning, is designed to enhance women's abilities and confidence in such situations. It will 1) teach participants techniques used in theater and leadership programs to enhance performance, 2) use role-plays of their own cases, and 3) coach participants in strategic management of discussions and negotiations.

Session B

This presentation will be centered on professional negotiation skills and its multi-faceted approach includes some pragmatic learning content, case studies, and incorporates the real issues facing those attending the sessions. With the intended outcome being professional growth, development of individual success through teamwork or the "Power of Partnerships" at the departmental, campus, and professional organizational levels will be discussed. The speakers are experienced professionals in human resources, leadership training, teaching, and higher education administration, with successful presentations in many venues including academia. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes. This is the first in a series of workshops sponsored by COACh. These workshops are intended to provide professional training for women in academic chemistry as well as to provide a forum for networking with other women faculty.

Here are some statements from former participants of this workshop:

"The workshop was excellent, and it was a great opportunity to meet other women in chemistry and to hear some of their experiences."

"I feel that I came away with a much better understanding of myself and how to position myself in different situations."

"This was not what I expected! Their approach to negotiation was very new and interesting to me."

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Workshop #2: The Chemistry of Leadership: A Women's Leadership Development Program

This program is designed to give participants some basic concepts and tools to further develop their leadership skills. Participants will learn about various concepts of leadership (including their own), explore what is known about gender and its role in leadership situations, reflect on their own leadership challenges, and do some self assessment and planning to identify/develop areas for skill enhancement. The program will involve a variety of instructional approaches, including presentation, small group discussion and experiential learning.

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Workshop #3: Professional Skills for Postdoctoral Associates Considering Academic Careers

This workshop is targeted for women currently in postdoctoral associate positions that are interested in an academic career in the chemical sciences. It involves training in professional negotiation skills and its multi-faceted approach includes some pragmatic learning content, case studies, and incorporates the real issues facing those attending the sessions. With the intended outcome being professional growth, development of individual success through teamwork or the "Power of Partnerships" at the departmental, campus, and professional organizational levels will be discussed. The speakers are experienced professionals in human resources, leadership training, teaching, and higher education administration, with successful presentations in many venues including academia. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes. These workshops are intended to provide professional training for women in academic chemistry as well as to provide a forum for networking with other women faculty.

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Workshop #4: Advanced Faculty Negotiation Skills

This advanced skills course begins with a review of the foundation understandings of negotiations or problem solving. Participants refresh knowledge of interest based approaches, alternatives to a negotiated solution and the styles most common to negotiation scenarios.

Building on these basics, participants explore the nature of difficult conversations and learn their diagnosis. Once understanding the diagnostic process, the group examines how their personal approach contributes to both the problem and the solution. Together, attendees determine possible means of changing the tone of difficult conversations in order to achieve more productive outcomes. One of the potential approaches is to develop enhanced listening and responding skills; participants practice rounds of a case that makes clear the impact of communication skills and deficits. In both diagnosis and communications skills, it becomes clear that recognizable tactics are often used by some parties in negotiation situations. These tactics are named and responses to them suggested and discussed in this advanced course.

Participants exercise their skills by working through a challenging case of their own choosing. The case is examined in at least two rounds of practice with a coach and observer so that finding positive alternatives and successful solutions can be developed.

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Workshop #5: COACh: Transforming the Careers of Women Scientists

Session A

Session B

This presentation will be centered on professional negotiation skills, and its multi-faceted approach includes some pragmatic learning content, case studies, and an incorporation of the real issues facing minority faculty members. The intended outcome is professional growth and development. Individual success through teamwork, or the "Power of Partnerships", at the departmental, campus, and professional organizational levels will be discussed. The speakers are experienced professionals in human resources, leadership training, teaching, and higher education administration, with successful presentations in many venues including academia. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes. This is the first in a series of workshops sponsored by COACh. These workshops are intended to provide professional training for women in academic chemistry, as well as to provide a forum for networking with other women faculty.

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Workshop #6: COACh Traveling Workshop

Would you like to bring COACh Workshops to your institution, group or regional ACS meeting? Do you have a small budget and could use some match money to make it happen? COACh has received funding through NSF/NIH to help defray a portion of the cost to bring a workshop to you.

COACh is offering a competitive program that can assist organizations or institutions in bringing COACh workshops to their campuses or professional meetings. We are particularly interested in regional ACS meetings or other professional meetings where there are a large number of graduate students, postdoctoral associates and faculty that might benefit but where funds are limited for such activities. COACh would cost share the facilitator fees and travel expenses for the workshop. The host site would need to demonstrate a need for and commitment to the workshop by guaranteeing 12-20 workshop participants per workshop and providing a meaningful contribution to the facilitator costs.

Each site would be responsible for providing space, faculty assistance, recruitment, and registration. COACh will prepare and evaluate the pre and post surveys to be completed by participants. The host organization will provide a final report to COACh containing the evaluations and the names and institutions of the participants. A follow-up report 1-2 years after the workshop will be expected.

Each site would decide which workshop is best suited for their needs, the postdoctoral associate workshops, the graduate student workshops, workshops for minority students or choose between junior faculty and senior faculty workshops. One facilitator or several, depending on the facilitator availability can conduct the traveling workshop depending on the resources and size of the group. We are able to assist in sponsoring 4-5 of these traveling workshops per year.

You provide the space, AV equipment, food (if you like) and the remaining facilitators fees and their travel expenses. Contact COACh for more information regarding the fees and expected expenses.

All applications must be received by December 1, 2006 for the 2007 workshops. All workshop schedules and arrangements will be made through COACh and we will try to accommodate your preferred dates for the workshops.

For more information contact COACh by email at coach@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-0116.

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COACh's Rockin' Reunion

Calling all COACh workshop attendees of the past 9 years for a Rockin' Reunion at the Boston ACS meeting. Join us as we share stories, savor successes, strategize about new challenges, relax with old and new friends, plan for future COACh ventures - all while enjoying good food, music and women's laughter. It's a party you won't want to miss! Mark your calendars for Sunday, August 19, 6:00 - 9:00 pm at the Hilton Boston Financial District.

RSVP on the COACh website: http://coach.uoregon.edu

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