Improve Your Productivity and Professional Success

• Faculty Writing & Productivity Groups
• Sharpen My Saw: Professional development workshops to strengthen faculty skills and productivity.
• CliftonStrengths Programs: Strengths-based workshops focused on professional growth and leadership development.
• Thrive Thursday: Connect with faculty colleagues through informal networking events.

Prepare to Come Up for Tenure and/or Promotion

• PTK Promotion Bootcamp: Annual, all-day workshop for professional track faculty preparing for promotion (Typically held in February)
• Advancing to Full: Workshop for Associate Professors: One-day, in-person workshop designed for associate professors preparing for promotion to full professor (Typically held in Spring)
• OFA Programs (posted to Event Calendar throughout academic year)
  • APT Workshops (Fall & Spring)
  • AEP Workshops (Fall)

Learn More About Policies and Emerging Issues on Campus

• University Senate
• OFA Programs (posted to Event Calendar throughout academic year)
  • Faculty Forums 
  • Provost Dialogues

Learn About Your Colleagues and Their Research

• Silver Terp Seminars
• PTK Symposium
• TerrapinSTRONG Symposium

Improve Your Hiring Skills

• Faculty Search Coaches Program / Train-the-Trainer Course: Training for faculty who serve on search committees to support equitable and effective hiring practices.

Navigate Conflict

• Ombuds Services
• Brave Conversations Intensive: Workshops that help faculty and administrators navigate difficult conversations and improve departmental climate.

Improve Your Communication Skills

The Office of Marketing and Communications (OMC) offers tailored media and messaging workshops designed to help faculty members better communicate about the impact of their research, scholarship and expertise.

These workshops are designed to be as interactive as possible and OMC makes every effort to ensure each session meets specific needs of faculty. The following are general topics typically included:

• Communicating research impact to a general audience
• Storytelling
• Considering different audiences
• Developing key messages
• Changing media landscape
• Interacting with the media
• Preparing for and conducting interviews
• Building relationships with members of the media
• Partnering with communicators
• Positioning yourself as an expert
• Utilizing social media to increase impact
• Op-eds and self-authored works
• Amplifying research through UMD channels

To inquire about scheduling a workshop, please contact the communications lead in your school or college, or reach out directly to Sara Gavin, Director of Research Communications, at sgavin@umd.edu.