Skills-Building Workshops

OFDD’s skills-building workshops are designed to teach the skills needed to develop faculty careers. Offered free of charge, these cover a range of topics necessary for advancing faculty careers.

These workshops are held throughout the year and have covered the following topics:

  • Acting with Power
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Delegation Strategies
  • Delivering Dynamic Presentations
  • Design Thinking
  • Effective Time Management
  • Effective Virtual Presentations
  • Giving and Receiving Feedback
  • How and When to Say "No and "Yes" in Career and in Life
  • Knowing and Using Your Strengths
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Overcoming Unintended Bias and Other Cognitive Errors

OFDD also provides an “On-Demand Series” of workshops on topics including mentorship, team-building, bias, and inclusion seminars to departments and groups across Stanford Medicine upon request.

Other skills-building workshops are offered across Stanford from the main campus Office of Faculty Development and from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

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For more information on workshops or suggestions for workshop topics: