177: When Your Academic Mission Statement Is Too Broad It’s Time To Do This

Today’s episode highlights frequently asked questions or problems that we find our clients have while they are trying to write their academic mission statement.    Academic mission statements are tools to help focus your career. There are ways to integrate multifaceted interests and talents while maintaining a cohesive vision for your work. The academic mission statement is an essential part of our work in the Navigate program. This work is the key to overcoming cycles of burnout and frustration.    So, if you are someone who is multi-talented and has a broad range of interests and ideas, and is unsure how to create a cohesive academic brand message, this episode is for you! Listen in as I share my skills, strategies, and goals method to develop a clear academic mission statement that aligns with what you want to accomplish in academia.    For full show notes visit scholarsvoice.org/podcast/177.   CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION: Our 12-week Navigate: Your Writing Roadmap® program helps tenure-track womxn and nonbinary professors to publish their backlog of papers so that their voice can have the impact they know is possible. Apply here! Cathy’s book, Making Time to Write: How to Resist the Patriarchy and Take Control of Your Academic Career Through Writing is available in print! Learn how to build your career around your writing practice while shattering the myths of writing every day, accountability, and motivation, doing mindset work that’s going to reshape your writing, and changing academic culture one womxn and nonbinary professor at a time. Get your print copy today or order it for a friend here! Want to train with us for free on your campus? Now you can when you recommend our Scholar’s Voice Faculty Retreats to a decision-maker on your campus! Download the brochure with the retreat curriculum and both in-person and online retreat options here.   FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL:  LinkedIn YouTube