Coaching is often lauded as a skill excellent leaders need to empower their people and create healthy, productive work environments. Carla B. Swearingen’s 2020 article explores in detail what coaching is, its benefits, and several ways it can be used to develop faculty “one conversation at a time,” and in her April 2022 article on coaching for academic leaders, Susan Robison explores one framework and two tools academic leaders can use to guide important conversations with their faculty.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and