The Productive Career Services Leader

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services professionals
Competency: Consulting - faculty/campus community
Fee: $49 (member); $69 (nonmember);

Summary
The responsibilities of a career services leaders tend to be less structured and undefined than more entry-level roles. Our most important work, such as strategic planning, supervision, professional development, and managing long-term projects, requires a different approach to productivity. This session compiles content from five of the most popular books on productivity—Getting Things Done (Allen, 2015), indistractable (Eyal, 2019), Habits (Duhigg, 2014), Eat That Frog (Tracy, 2017), and Deep Work (Newport, 2016)—and applies them to the role of a career services leader. Attendees will learn about unhealthy work habits, mindsets, and strategies to get organized, reduce distraction, and increase productivity, with the ultimate goal of improving well-being.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Identify how unhealthy work habits and mindsets manifest for career services leaders and affect your productivity;
- Create a personal management system that includes strategies for capturing your ideas, planning your work, creating your to-do list, controlling your email, and managing your day/week; and
- Generate strategies to manage (internal and external) distraction and build long-term, healthy habits and mindsets that support well-being.
Presenters

Celeste Spier, Associate Director, University of Nebraska - Lincoln College of Business
Dr. Celeste Spier leads career programs and services for the College of Business Career Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also coordinates the Professional Enhancement Program, a series of four required courses for College of Business undergraduates focused on strengths, career development, internship and job-search strategies, and school-to-work transition. She has 14 years of experience in student affairs, including career services, academic advising, and recruiting, and six years of experience in a career services leadership role. She has a Master of Arts degree in mental health counseling and a Ph.D. in educational administration.