Strong collaboration in higher education often depends on the ability to influence, communicate, and align priorities across supervisors, colleagues, and teams. Faculty and academic professionals frequently navigate competing priorities while working with peers, supervisors, and cross-functional groups to move projects, ideas, and institutional goals forward.
Managing Up, Down, and Across is an Academic Impressions course designed to help participants strengthen workplace influence, improve professional relationships, and align their work with team and institutional priorities. Through practical strategies and guided reflection, the course explores how to influence without authority, collaborate more effectively, and better understand workplace dynamics.
Participants explore topics including:
- Understanding the difference between authority and influence in professional settings
- Strengthening strategies for influencing supervisors, peers, and direct reports
- Building stronger professional relationships and collaborative working environments
- Managing up by aligning personal priorities with supervisor and institutional goals
- Identifying mission, vision, values, and priorities to improve workplace alignment and effectiveness
- Developing communication, persuasion, and relationship-building skills to move ideas forward and support shared goals
The course includes practical frameworks, reflection activities, and opportunities to think through real workplace situations related to leadership, collaboration, and influence. Participants gain tools to improve communication, strengthen alignment, and work more effectively within academic and institutional environments.
This resource is especially valuable for faculty, supervisors, managers, department leaders, and higher education professionals seeking stronger collaboration, workplace influence, and leadership effectiveness.
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