Tuesday, July 15, 2025
2:00 – 3:15 pm ET

Help Eliminate Fear, Ensure People Feel Heard & Create a Culture of Trust

Times are tough on college campuses. Federal Executive Orders have turned higher education work on its heels, resulting in so many unknowns, coupled with staffing limitations and budget shortfalls. Due to the lack of certainty, administrators, staff and faculty are feeling a lack of psychological safety and fatigue and burnout as they try to adapt to rapid changes. Communication breakdowns, erosion of team cohesion, and difficulty maintaining motivation and morale are all too common among staff and leaders alike.

Join us on July 15, 2025 when our presenter will help participants normalize feelings and experiences, and outline ways to create a culture of shared leadership and staff resilience. The information shared will be based on current evidence-based research, as well as three decades worth of practical lived experience leading both small and large teams.

By creating a connected work environment that fosters meeting challenges head-on, participants will prioritize resilience, even as internal and external pressures mount. Help eliminate fear, ensure people feel heard, create a culture of trust, and prioritize well-being. 

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Recognize that you are not alone in feeling challenged by needing to boost staff resilience.
• Communicate with clarity and compassion.
• Open the door to solutions and opportunities by tapping into real-life examples, proven strategies and tools that work.
• Model risk taking and learning from mistakes.
• Create a culture of shared leadership – give voice and choice.
• Feel empowered to try new strategies for boosting your team’s resilience – carve out time and space for informal bonding, re-establish boundaries, focus on our “why” and celebrate progress.
• Be authentic and create a “community of care” (as opposed to reinforcing victim blaming through suggesting “self-care”).
• Tap into experiences you may have put on the back burner due to external pressures. 
  

Presenter

Jody Donovan, Ph.D. (she, her, hers) serves as the associate vice president for student affairs at Colorado State University. She also teaches and advises graduate students in the Student Affairs in Higher Education master’s program and the Higher Education Leadership doctoral program.
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Included When You Register

Invite your entire team for one low price!

• Live 75-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
• Access for your entire team for one low price
• Unlimited access to view webinar recording on demand (available after live event)
• Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
• Certificate of completion for each participant
• Weekly newsletter – What's Working on Campus

Instructions for live webinar access for your group are provided to you immediately upon checkout. Instructions for accessing the on-demand recording will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours following the live webinar. Feel free to contact us at info@paper-clip.com or 1-866-295-0505 with any questions. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.

PaperClip Communications welcomes persons with disabilities to join our webinars. If you anticipate needing an accommodation or have questions about the online access provided, please email info@paper-clip.com at least two weeks in advance of your participation.