Work-Life Balance for Engineering Faculty

1. Minority Faculty Development Workshop Susan Robison 410-465-5892 Work-Life Balance for Engineering Faculty

2. Triple-threat job description Introducing: the one, the only…. Why balance is hard for minority faculty

3. Goals for this workshop: Increasing your productivity and happiness through 2 practices in each area: *Work- balance *Teaching *Researching *Serving *Home life

4. Balance

5. What is Needed for Balance Define it. Design a life management system that brings it.

6. What does work-life balance mean for you?

7. What is your biggest challenge to living that balance?

8. Balance

9. Productive and happy – managing goals and enjoying life. Peak Performing Faculty

10. Productive Through Great Work High impact work that uses your strengths, flows easily from a deep sense of meaning and purpose, and benefits the college.

11. Happy Through a Great Life Meeting your needs for ________ while meeting other people’s needs for ________.

12. Happy People Work Differently Great Work/Great Life Flow: challenge + mastery Balance: Pulse -> pause -> pulse -> pause.

13. What faculty need to build? A life management system Gives you resources (time, money, energy) for high productivity and high happiness. Driven by more “wants” than “shoulds.” Only as complicated and organized as it needs to be. Brings balance between work and life. Keeps track of everything in one place.

14. A life management system: Prevents feeling overwhelmed. Figures out what strategies bring productivity and happiness. Replicates them in a reproducibly effective manor. Helps you enjoy the process.

15. Creating Great Work and a Great Life through the Pyramid of Power. Managing it through use of the Dream Book. Energize yourself by:

16. Goals Vision Mission Purpose Pyramid of Power

18. Goals Vision Mission Purpose Pyramid of Power

19. Goals Goals Goals

20. Goals: What tasks lead to live #1-3? • Vision: What will result? • Mission: What will I do about it? • Purpose : Why am I here? Goals Vision Mission Purpose Pyramid of Power

21. Commitments Goals Vision Opportunities Mission Opportunities Purpose Opportunities Pyramid of Power

22. Purpose Pyramid of Power

23. Power – Purpose My purpose in life is:

25. Teaching

26. Teaching Create great course designs. Pace yourself.

27. Create Great Course Designs Ask the Big Questions. Think learning activities not lecture. Structure yourself with a great syllabus. Develop assessment methods that are meaningful but not labor intensive.

28. Pace Yourself Pace your assignments. Connect with your students yet set limits as well. Use breaks well. Start small, build momentum. Use the 1/1 class preparation formula. Assess the learning and teaching. Collect, analyze, & report data (SoTL).

29. Class prep in one hour or less • Mindmap all you know about the class topic. • Ask yourself the Big Questions. • Write class goals (objectives) related to Big Questions. • Turn into a class outline of topics to be covered. • Decide on learning activities. • Design assessment tools.

30. Grading in your spare time • Purpose of grading: • Find out what learning has taken place. • Meet college requirements. • Ask yourself the Big Questions: what do I want the students to learn and how can I meet my job requirements? • Coordinate the course goals to methods that will measure them. • Use class time for pedagogically sound assessment methods. • Design assessment tools that minimize your time. • Use and communicate rubrics.

31. Writing/ Researching

32. Writing Develop a long-term vision. Break it into small steps.

33. Writing Write regularly. Set up CARS for writing sessions. Write quickly; revise slowly. Satisfice. Develop accountability with yourself and others. Get help and support. Think programmatically.

34. Serving

35. It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? Thoreau

36. Serving Discernment. Connection.

37. You can’t do it all. So what can you do? What can you do well?

38. I have to. I chose to. I commit to____ instead of ____.

39. Serving Tie to Pyramid. Have an agenda. Connect with others by using social intelligence. Have an escape strategy. Set time limits. Develop successors.

40. Does it fit my long term goals? What resources are needed? What is the opportunity cost – the loss/gain of this and other opportunities? Is this the right time in terms of my vision? How do I get the time to do this project: get rid of other tasks or say “No” to other opportunities? How to decide to take on new opportunities:

41. Increase your “No”s Strengthen your “Yes”s.

42. The invitation The discernment The action plan The encounter Say “No” without feeling guilty

43. Networking Clarity Connect with like-minded colleagues for mutual support.

44. Home Life

45. Design a life management system for home. Think: human sustainability Home Life

46. Commitments Goals Vision Opportunities Mission Opportunities Purpose Opportunities Pyramid of Power

47. Wellness Well-being Wisdom Sustainability

48. Bonus

49. Backwards Planning Barbara Sher

50. Tracking System