Mark your calendar for a one-hour presentation Monday, Nov. 13, to improve your work life. The School of Medicine 's Office of Faculty Affairs invites you to learn about faculty career management strategies from Janet Bickel, well known in academic medicine for partnering with organizations to improve career and leadership development as well as with individuals to build their careers and executive skills.

Are you a faculty member working to advance in your career?

The second presentation, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., " Strategic Career Management Skills," will be oriented toward junior faculty.

Many faculty lack preparation both for maximizing the opportunities presented by a faculty appointment and for taking responsibility for their career development. This session focuses on the following particularly key areas:

• Understanding the opportunities and the realities of career-building in academic medicine
• Formulating professional development goals and strategies for continuing growth
• "Managing Up": Improving their relationship with their boss
• Expanding their professional network
• Avoiding career derailers

Widely respected as an expert in these areas, Ms. Bickel has spoken and consulted at more than 100 academic health centers and universities as well as with dozens of professional societies and other organizations.

Since the 1994 initiation of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Fellowship Program, she has served on its faculty and as learning community advisor and on its advisory and selection committees. She is an adjunct Assistant professor of medical education at George Washington University School of Medicine.

During the 25 years before creating Janet Bickel & Associates, she held positions of increasing national leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges, including Associate Vice President for Medical School Affairs. She established an Office of Women in Medicine, creating a series of professional development seminars attended by more than 4,000 women faculty, and led AAMC's first faculty management and development programs.

Are you responsible for recruiting, advancing, and retaining faculty?

The first presentation, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., is entitled, " Bridging Generational Differences to Improve Medical Education, Faculty Recruitment and Leadership Development."

Now more than ever, faculty recruitment, engagement and retention depend on institutional attention to generational differences in values and preferences. This interactive session will offer tools and support to senior faculty and departmental leaders to increase their effectiveness as developers of faculty, including:

• Responding effectively to differences in career expectations between Baby Boomers and Generations X and Y
• Addressing gender and ethnic differences in career development
• Analyzing strategies in place at other academic health centers for updating faculty rewards and mentoring practices as well as for facilitating leadership development
• Improving mentoring across generational, ethnic and gender differences
• Maximizing the impact of mentors in the limited time available

These events will be in Morse Auditorium, on the fourth floor of Harper Univesity Hospital. Take the elevators across from the cafeteria, near Medical Records.  

For more information, please contact Linda Roth at lroth@med.wayne.edu.