If you attended Summer Institute 2011, please follow the link to complete our brief feedback form. It would be a great help in letting us improve future sessions. It will take you no more than five minutes. Thank you. LOT is proud to host our third annual Summer Leadership Institute on June 13. This year's theme is: Tools and Techniques for High Performance, Cross-Disciplinary Teams. This
professional development opportunity is open to leadership educators
and practitioners both within the U of T community and beyond. The registration deadline has passed. Thank you for your interest.Event Description | 
To view our full-sized poster, click here.
| Do you lead a research , educational, or administrative team? Are you involved in cross-disciplinary collaborations? Would you like to improve your skills in team building and navigating conflict?
This
session offers tools and techniques for enhancing collaboration across
disciplines, sectors, and industries, in order to work more effectively.
Outcomes of the session include learning tools for:
- Creating a culture of learning.
Obstacles and difficulties are ripe with opportunities for innovation,
if we know how to leverage the learning implicit in conflict
- Facilitating complex interactions:
effective leadership on cross-disciplinary teams requires leaders who
are facilitators, and capable of orchestrating complex interactions and
managing conflict
- Finding the lingua franca—bridging
the distance depends on the facility with which collaborators are able
to learn from and understand each others’ perspectives and methodologies
- Knowing your strength—and
that of others. Competition rather than collaboration happens when
there is too little differentiation. Identifying and using the gifts and
talents you bring to the team is essential to success.
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Complex problem solving within and beyond universities requires cross-disciplinary collaboration among scientists, administrators, policy makers, business leaders, engineers, government agencies, and community groups. Yet cross-disciplinary collaboration itself is a complex problem; conceptual distance between disciplines, a lack of common language, differing methodologies, and an attachment to one perspective or framework are just some of the challenges facing cross-disciplinary teams.Cost: $25.00
About the Facilitator Julie Diamond, Ph.D. Dipl. P.W. is a trainer, facilitator and consultant who has worked in the field of human and organizational change for over 25 years. She consults and trains internationally on leadership development, group dynamics, team development and conflict facilitation for organizations, businesses, government agencies, NGOs, schools and universities. Past and current clients include New Zealand Health Funding Authority, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Macedonian Trade Union, Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau, New South Wales (Australia) Department of Education and Training, The North Face, Nike, Cascade AIDS Project, and Community Services Northwest. She currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Process Work Institute of Portland, and is the author of A Path Made By Walking: Process Work in Practice, a widely used a text book on the process-oriented method of facilitation. Julie writes about the problems of leadership, learning and change on her blog: A User's Guide to Power.Contact UsIf you have further questions about LOT's Summer Institute 2011, please email us at lot.engineering@utoronto.ca or give us a call at 416-978-3018.
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