Improve your Productivity and Professional Success

• Faculty 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.
• Pathways for PTK Women: Leadership and career development for professional track women faculty.

Prepare to Come Up for Tenure and/or Promotion

• APT Workshops
• AEP Workshops
• PTK Promotion Bootcamp
• Advancing to Full: Workshop for Associate Professors
• "Going Up” for Tenure: Workshop for Assistant Professors
• Keeping Our Faculties

Learn More about Policies and Emerging Issues on Campus

• Faculty Forums
• Provost Dialogues
• University Senate

Learn about your Colleagues and their Research

• Silver Terp Seminars
• Awards and Promotion Workshops
• 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 office
• 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.