Southeastern Museums Conference - Leadership Institute

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

September 10, 2020: DUE TO COVID-19, the SEMC Leadership Institute: Leading for Today's Challenges, will pilot as a virtual program in November 2020.

February 1, 2020: Applications for the 2020 Leadership Institute have closed

SEMC Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges

The Southeastern Museum Conference (SEMC) will offer a professional development program for future museum leaders that supports diversity and inclusion. SEMC Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges has been re-scheduled as a virtual program to be run November 8 - 16 2020.

SEMC is proud to partner with the the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) to pilot this new program clearly focused on leadership training for staff of small- and mid-sized institutions.

SEMC Leadership Institute will develop a diverse and inclusive group of future museum leaders who:

Can identify and build on their existing personal strengths
Assess how to maximize these strengths internally in an organization and externally as part of a community
Identify methods to capitalize on their strengths and their environment to move an institution forward

The curriculum, taught by leaders in their fields, covers six areas:

Reflecting Your Best Self
Building Inclusive Cultures
Strategic Communication and Thinking
Leadership Challenges
Adaptive Leadership
Creating Your Best Self as an Organization

SEMC Virtual Leadership Institute tuition will be $1,500 for SEMC and AAAM members and $1,600 for non-members. Tuition will includes Institute resources, and a pre-workshop for Institute cohorts on Sunday, October 24, 2021 in Chattanooga, TN. Conference registration for SEMC 2021 Annual Meeting in Chattanooga will be complimentary for the 2020 Virtual Institute cohort.

SEMC Virtual Leadership Institute: Leading for Today’s Challenges will equip a new generation of museum leaders with outward-looking skills and strategies that increase their effectiveness as leaders and ability to create a productive and inclusive environment within the museum and among the museum’s board.

OBJECTIVES

The Southeastern Museums Conference Leadership Institute will develop a diverse and inclusive group of future museum leaders who: • Can identify and build on their existing personal strengths • Assess how to maximize these strengths internally in an organization and externally as part of a community • Identify methods to capitalize on their strengths and their environment to move an institution forward

CURRICULUM AREAS

The curriculum, taught by leaders in their fields, covers six areas:

• Reflecting Your Best Self*

• Building Inclusive Cultures

• Strategic Communication and Thinking

• Leadership Challenges

• Adaptive Leadership

• Creating Your Best Self as an Organization

*Using the Reflective Best Self Tool

Meet the Faculty.

APPLY HERE. (**The application window for the 2020 Virtual Leadership Institute has closed)

SEMC is grateful for the support of our generous sponsors and partners for the