Manager Forums
Manager Forums are a way for you to gain insights from university and industry leaders, connect with other managers, learn more about the resources available to support you, give input to new or changing workplace programs, and share your learnings from approaches with your teams that had fantastic results—and approaches that didn’t work so well.
Format and participants: Live (no cost) sessions are held via Zoom. Registration through STARS is required. Enrollment is limited to ensure breakout sessions are a size conducive to sharing. All people managers from across the university are invited to participate in Manager Forums.
April 23, 2024 | 1 -2 p.m.
Leaders as Trustees of Others' Time
Hosted by Robert Sutton, Organizational Psychologist and Professor of Management Science & Engineering (emeritus).
Join us for April’s Manager Forum where Bob Sutton, Organizational Psychologist and Professor of Management Science and Engineering, will lead a session on ‘Leaders as Trustees of Others’ Time’.
Bob will discuss highlights from “The Friction Project,” his new book with Graduate School of Business Professor Hayagreeva (Huggy) Rao. Their main insight is that skilled leaders are friction fixers, trustees of others’ time who are bent on making the right things easier and the wrong things harder for others, and adept at helping them to move fast AND to slow down (or come to a screeching stop) at the right times. Bob will share how a friction fixer’s work is "part therapy and part organizational design." He will also dig into the causes and remedies for common friction traps including oblivious leaders, addition sickness, and fast and frenzied people and teams. Much of this conversation will be devoted to the little things that you can do to make life better for your colleagues, students, and others who work with and are served by the university.
Upcoming Manager Forums
Note: Dates are subject to change based on guest leader availability. All times are Pacific Time (PT).
- Tue., April 23, 2024 | 1 - 2 p.m. | Leaders as Trustees of Others' Time
- Tue., May 21, 2024 | 1 - 2 p.m. | TBD
- Tue., June 18, 2024 | 1 - 2 p.m. | TBD