Pre-Conference Workshops

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
10:00a.m - Noon

AIRUM is pleased to offer Pre-conference workshops free to conference registrants.  

Focus & Flow: Productivity for IR Professionals

Carole Chabries, PhD.Presenter: Carole Chabries, PhD 

As an Institutional Research (IR) professional, your work is critical to the success of your university. Yet IR offices are often under-resourced despite the high (and sometimes urgent!) demand for your expertise. You're constantly being asked to provide essential data under tight deadlines, with limited context, and numerous competing priorities—all of which pile on the stress.

But here's the good news: your mind and body are powerful tools for relieving that stress. In this workshop, we’ll show you how neuroscience, productivity techniques, and communication skills can work together to ease the daily pressures you face. You'll discover practical strategies for taking control of your well-being, giving you tools to manage your campus stresses more effectively.

This isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. You'll design your own personalized solution to fit  you and specific challenges. By the time you finish the workshop you'll have clear, actionable strategies for reducing stress at work, all backed by evidence and research. You'll leave ready to create calm amid the chaos—armed with new tools you can apply right away.

Speaker Bio: 

Dr. Carole Chabries has spent more than 25 years leading teams of faculty and staff in higher ed. Whether designing complex initiatives or guiding departments through tough transitions, she has built a reputation for helping teams achieve the seemingly impossible. Her secret? Strong relationships that foster collaboration, trust, and joy in the work.

Carole is passionate about coaching campus colleagues to develop the skills needed for leading with confidence and connection. These aren’t magic tricks, but practical, teachable strategies grounded in her experience as both a leader and educator. Her approach builds camaraderie, inclusion, and purpose—helping teams do meaningful work together and stay connected long after.

She’s excited to bring some of this magic to life with you.

Prerequisites:  Download these files

Become an Excel Pro Quickly and on a Budget

Mustafa TageldinPresenter: Mustafa Tageldin

Excel is an essential tool in IR, and some users don’t feel comfortable/have the skillset to use Excel in an efficient way. Kutools can be used to accomplish complex tasks in Excel in seconds with little to no cost.

In this session

  • Participants will need to bring personal laptop( have admin right to install the add-in)
  • Will go through the following
    • Selecting cells with min and max values
    • Selecting unique and duplicates
    • Compare two lists for similarity or difference
    • Find and select a certain value/text/date
    • Combine worksheets/workbooks
    • Merge two tables based on a specific look up value 

Prerequisites: TBD