Application Is Open for 2020 Strategic Communications Academy for UF Leaders and Scholars

UF’s College of Journalism and Communications and UF Training & Organizational Development are pleased to offer a unique professional development program for faculty and staff ready to take their communication and leadership skills to the next level.

Participants will be selected via a competitive application process. The deadline to submit an application for the 2020 program is January 22, 2020.

Please see the Strategic Communications Academy Application webpage to apply.

For more information, see https://leadership.hr.ufl.edu/programs/sca/.

Designed for UF employees working to advance positive change in academic or professional areas of interest, this program will help participants achieve the following goals:

• Build and manage relationships with the individuals and organizations crucial to helping them achieve their goals.
• Hone storytelling skills to inspire support for a department’s mission and vision.
• Create a strategic communications framework.
• Develop thought leadership in their fields of study.
• Use design thinking and systems thinking to create meaningful calls to action.
• Communicate inclusively to build connections with diverse audiences.
• Write with confidence, clarity, and charisma.
• Create memorable and compelling TED-style presentations.
• Facilitate high-stakes meetings with “influentials” such as high-level administrators, policy makers, and funders.
• Interact with the news media to build credibility and call people to action.
• Think quickly in challenging communication scenarios.
• Leverage social media to develop a meaningful digital network.