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Leadership Resources

Students’ ability to learn has deep roots in relationships. Our learning performance may be deeply affected by the emotional environment in which the learning takes place.
- Dr. John Medina

Leadership Resources

The CTE-BFFL provides ongoing professional and leadership development opportunities to support success for faculty and staff, in every role and at every career stage. We offer various resource materials, workshops, one-on-one consultations, and programs in the following areas: 

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • CliftonStrengths
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Teambuilding and interpersonal development
  • Avoiding and overcoming burnout
  • and more! 
The CTE-BFFL also facilitates a peer-to-peer mentoring program for new faculty each year. If you are interested in becoming a mentor to a new faculty member, reach out to our office.

For More Information...

View our calendar of upcoming leadership events or contact the CTE-BFFL for further details.

Emotional Intelligence Resources

General Overview
Perceiving Emotions and Personal MSCEIT & CliftonStrengths
Ability to accurately identify emotions of people. Used for "reading" people's mood for feedback.

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Emotional Intelligence & CliftonStrengths [Panopto Recording]
Introduction and Perceiving Emotions [PowerPoint]

pdf Articles:

Context in Emotion Perception
The Body Language

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Ways to Increase Your Perception Ability
Using Emotions
Ability to use emotions and solve problems with the emotion. Used for creating the right feeling to assist in problem solving, communicate a vision, and/or lead people.

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Using Emotions [Session Recording]

Using Emotions [PowerPoint]
Understanding Emotions
Ability to understand the causes of emotion. Used for "predicting" how people will emotionally react.

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Understanding Emotions [Session Recording]

Understanding Emotions [PowerPoint]

3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions
Managing Emotions
Ability to be open to emotions and fuse emotions with thinking. Used for integrating emotion and thought to make effective decisions.

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Managing Emotions [Panopto Recording]
Equipped for Service
How to better apply your strengths into service.

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Equipped for Service [Panopto Recording]

CliftonStrengths Resources