Women's Faculty Association

Leadership Book Club

The Women's Faculty Association (WFA) has a Leadership Book Club aimed at leadership development, mentoring and networking for the WFA members and their mentees. If interested in joining the book club, please contact Kadriye Lewis, EdD, kadriye.lewis@cchmc.org. The Leadership Book Club is sponsored by the Schmidlapp Foundation Grant.

2009 WFA sponsored Activities:

January 26, 2009: Everything You Need to Know about Negotiation by Thomas Dewitt, MD.

Click here to download a PDF version of Dr. DeWitt's presentation.

2008 WFA sponsored Activities:

January 29, 2008: Workshop: Improving Personal Productivity by Amy Bunger and Susan
Sterritt.
February 7, 2008: Leadership Book Discussion: presented by Kadriye Lewis, Nine Shift WA Davies and J Coates
March 24, 2008: Dinner with Grand Rounds Speaker Clarie Doerschuk MD
March 25, 2008: Grand Rounds "Bacterial Pneumonia and Host Defense" and luncheon with speaker about networking and mentoring and grant strategies
April 28, 2008: Leadership Book Discussion: presented by Eman Al-Khadra, Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and HOW YOU CAN HELP THEM STAY. By Freada Kapor Klein.
May 2008: Taking Charge of Your Career Development by Rebecca Phillips and Carol Caldwell. For more information from "Taking Charge of Your Career Development", download one of these documents:

Taking Charge of Your Career Development Resources
The Passion Thermometer - Remember this when you are asked to serve on a committee or something else that takes up your time and energy before replying.
The Road to Tenure

October 2, 2008: Workshop: "Conflict resolution for faculty" by Tonia Murphy and Pamela Smith
October 30, 2008: Leadership bookclub disucssion led by Nives Zimmermann on "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal² by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz.
December 9, 2008: Leadership bookclub discussion led by Pamela Smith on "Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life" by Spencer Johnson, MD

Upcoming Events

February 17, 2009: 12 - 1 pm, Book Club led by Nancy Ratner, PhD on The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Ph.D and Spencer Johnson, MD. (Lunch will be provided.)
February 26, 2009: 12 - 1 pm, Web 2.0: A New Generation of Web-based Tools by Kadriye Lewis, EdD. (Lunch will be provided.)
March 17, 2009: 8 - 9 am, WFA Sponsored Grand Rounds presented by Lori Stark, PhD

Download a list of all of the books reviewed by the Women's Faculty Association on portable document format (.pdf).