Your relationship with your faculty advisor is an essential part of your graduate school experience. Learn practical skills and discover resources to help you communicate effectively and resolve issues with your faculty advisor.
Helen J. Doyle, PhD, associate vice provost for graduate education, VPGE
This interactive workshop will be followed by dinner and networking.
Dine with inspiring leaders from various industries and organizations. At Leadership Dinners, you will interact with proven leaders and a small group of graduate students over dinner at the Faculty Club.
Learn how to negotiate with colleagues, bosses, partners, friends, clients, and many others.
Through a dynamic mix of theory, demonstration, and practice, this two-session workshop provides a solid foundation for more principled, persuasive, and successful negotiation in a variety of contexts.
Negotiation Matters will take place on the following two Tuesdays: Feb. 4 & 11 from 4 - 8 PM. Due to the workshop's interactive format, full participation in both sessions is required.
Every academic institution is structured differently. What do you need to know as a new faculty member to negotiate and work effectively with the leadership at your new institution?
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Could a faculty career be in your future? Attend Academic Chats to explore skills and experiences to help you prepare from Stanford faculty and staff. Lunch is provided.
The ability to involve undergraduates in your research is highly attractive to hiring academic institutions. What are the best ways to engage undergraduates in your research in ways that benefit them, your research group, and your own career?
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Learn how to manage your PhD advisor, postdoc supervisor, and eventually your department chair, dean and anyone else "above" you. Including tips on how to be an effective manager yourself.
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Time management is a challenge in graduate school when you’re balancing coursework, teaching, research, and/or dissertation writing. In this workshop, you’ll learn tools and methods for planning effectively and working with focus. Learn to tailor strategies for planning your quarter, for planning a balanced week, and for setting up your workspace, resulting in greater focus, motivation, and productivity.
Nicholas Santascoy, PhD, academic coach, Center for Teaching and Learning
In this workshop, we will discuss everything from how to identify a postdoc position that fits your values and interests, through to how to apply, interview for, and land the ideal position.
John Boothroyd, PhD, associate vice provost for graduate education, VPGE, and professor, Microbiology and Immunology
This interactive workshop will be followed by dinner and networking.
Attend this session to go over different types of networking, develop your network skills and practice them. Learn how to connect with others, introduce yourself and develop your list of questions to ask.
Join our Diversity Works discussion with JD Schramm, director of the King Global Leadership Program at Knight-Hennessy and lecturer at the Graduate School of Business since 2007.
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