The ATLAS Guide to Leadership in Higher Education

Based on our popular workshop An Introduction to Academic Leadership, this guide discusses the nature of leadership, why academic leadership must be different from leadership in other types of organizations, styles of leadership, tailoring one's style of leadership to a specific organizational culture, and much more.


Ebook $2.99 at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or iBooks. Paperback $5.99 at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

All ATLAS Guides are $2.99 in ebook format or $5.99 in paperback. Other titles include:


  • ​The ATLAS Guide to Emotional Intelligence in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Managing Conflict in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Career Development in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Coaching and Mentoring in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Shared Governance in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Leadership for Introverts in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Work/Life Balance in Higher Education.
  • The ATLAS Guide to Team Building in Higher Education..

The ATLAS Guide to Effective Communication in Higher Education

A concise and practical guide to how administrators and other academic leaders can promote better communication in higher education.  Includes insights into best practices on how to communicate as an academic leader, special tips for oral communication, special tips for oral communication, communicating to defuse conflict, communicating to persuade, and much more.


Ebook $2.99 at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or iBooks.  Paperback $5.99 at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.



The ATLAS Guide to Effective Meetings in Higher Education

Based on ATLAS' new workshop We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This: Conducting Meetings Effectively, this guide provides a six-step process that you can use to conduct better meetings, regardless of your position in higher education.


It includes advice on how to make agendas more effective, how to organize the room properly for different types of meetings, how to deal with meeting disruptors and other difficult personalities, how to assign meeting roles, how to reach consensus more easily, and how to streamline the meeting process.


​Ebook $2.99 at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or iBooks.  Paperback $5.99 at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

​The ATLAS Guide to Promoting Collegiality in Higher Education

Based on Bob Cipriano's popular workshops on collegiality, this guide traces the source of incivility on college campuses today, provides an operational definition of collegiality, discusses the differences between civility and collegiality, examines the concept of the Collegiality Statement, provides practical strategies for promoting collegiality in higher education, addresses how to deal with breaches of collegiality, explores case law with regard to collegiality in higher education, describes how to screen for collegiality in faculty searches, and describes how to deal with matters of collegiality in making tenure decisions.



Ebook $2.99 at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or iBooks.  Paperback $5.99 at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.