HOTLINE COACHING
To request ACES Hotline Coaching please contact Diana
Bilimoria (dxb12@case.edu) who evaluates requests and
coordinates with coaches (usually a first contact is made
by the coach within a few days of the original request).
Recently, at our first University-wide meeting of women faculty (convened by ACES to share our research findings and intervention results to date with the campus-wide group of women faculty as well as to initiate discussion
of institutionalization beyond ACES), women faculty
from ACES and non-ACES departments asked the ACES
co-PIs to create an ACES hotline for emergency-type
coaching that would be available to all campus women
faculty on an as-needed basis. This would allow women
faculty facing unique opportunities and challenges to
receive short-term and quick-turnaround coaching
advice from a professional executive coach that would
help them to optimally address and resolve whatever
issue, opportunity or problem they were facing.
Accordingly, ACES Hotline Coaching was established in
February 2006. The main goals of the ACES coaching
hotline are to assist individual women faculty to
comprehensively analyze and contextualize an emergent
issue, opportunity or problem, prioritize preferences,
and initiate a plan of action that will ultimately result in a
decision about or resolution of the issue.
Eight women faculty across the university have availed
themselves of this opportunity, and received 1-2 Hotline
Coaching sessions as needed.
Issues for which Hotline Coaching was
sought by women faculty included:
- (1) considering departmental chair position after the
resignation of the current chair
- (2) negotiations with the dean regarding the possibility
of departmental chair postition
- (3) assistance with preparation for a formal grievance
- (4) job negotiations regarding role as Committee Chair
- (5) research funding supervision and budget
management issues
- (6) career choice questioning, and career development
and planning issues.
The coaches used for Hotline Coaching are the same
as those employed in the executive coaching of women
faculty in the ACES departments; these are the same
professionals who have been working as coaches with
S&E women faculty at Case over the first 3 years of the
ACES award.
Women faculty members who have received Hotline
Coaching have indicated that they received great benefit
in addressing their unique issue from their interactions
with their Hotline Coach.
To request ACES Hotline Coaching please contact Diana
Bilimoria (dxb12@case.edu) who evaluates requests and
coordinates with coaches (usually a first contact is made
by the coach within a few days of the original request).
Testimonial
[My hotline coach] and I met and talked yesterday. It was
enormously helpful. Our discussion ... has really helped me
to sort some things out. I think that this will help me be
more productive and effective.
She has given me some “homework” and we plan to have
our second meeting in a month or two when I’ve had a
chance to finish the homework and do some more thinking.
Thank you, and ACES, so much for making this possible. It
still blows me away that the university is willing to make
such an investment in me.
— Heather Morrison, Professor and Chair,
Department of Astronomy
