Founder and Principal Jeremy Goodman Consulting, Massachusetts, United States
Session Abstract: Most IR directors and other management staff move up from within the field. But when we are promoted into management positions, we rarely receive any formal or structured learning opportunities on what management means and how to do it well. Allocating resources, managing workflow, and leading a team require different mindsets and skills from the individual contributors we used to be. In this workshop, we will focus on building, managing and communicating with your team and effectively managing resources such as staff time and budget to achieve your office goals, including exercises designed to consider how you might apply what you’ve learned when you return to your institution. Whether you are new to managing an office or just never had the opportunity to learn about it in a structured way, this may be the experience for you.
As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Discuss the shift in mindset needed to move from an IR/IE staff member to the office leader.
Discuss management techniques like staff hiring, staff retention, managing office workload, and budgeting.
Discuss the difference in strategies between office staff management and “managing up”.
Discuss how to adapt/adopt the knowledge shared in this workshop to their unique IR/IE office setting.
