Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Key Points

Useful these leadership mindsets in crisis:

Your have permission to be more directive than normal — and be sure to make space for listening.

Acknowledge where people are right now, even it might not calibrate with where you “think” they might be.

Embrace a bit of the humor that comes from all of this.

Create useful structures for both your family and you.

The spontaneous interactions won’t happen as easily. Be intentional about creating the kinds of human interactions that are important right now.

Establish the boundaries you need to care for yourself.

Resources Mentioned

Transitions* by William Bridges

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living* by Dale Carnegie

Social Intelligence* by Daniel Goleman

A Thousand Miles

Related Episodes

How to Engage With Humor, with David Nihill (episode 245)

The Way to Have Conversations That Matter, with Celeste Headlee (episode 344)

Getting Better at Empathy, with Daniel Goleman (episode 391)

How to Reclaim Conversation, with Cal Newport (episode 400)

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