putting notion into motion

Putting Notion Into Motion|

Creating and Sustaining Meaningful Change

External Pressures

Fundraising

Faculty

Quality

What Keeps You Up at Night?

Student Recruitment Student Retention Graduation Rates Encroachment by Other

Institutions into Your Market

Inability to Attract a Specific Emerging Market

Enrollment

External Pressures

Faculty

Enrollment

Fundraising

What Keeps You Up at Night?

Student Performance (Learning Outcomes)

Faculty Professional Development

Institution and/or Program Accreditation

Quality

Quality

Faculty

Enrollment

Fundraising

What Keeps You Up at Night?

Institution and/or Program Accreditation

New Administration New State or Federal

Policies Pressure from Alumni and

Boards to Do X, Y, and Z

Pressures

How Are You Dealing with Challenges?

Projects Interventions Policy Adjustments Full Scale Initiatives Data Systems

Implementation

Have or Are You Experiencing Resistance?

Avoiding the Enemy of Change | Memes

Idea Formed into Distinct Memorable Unit

Beliefs Perpetuated by Society

Learned Thought Patterns

Generate Myths about Reality

Myths Produce Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)

Memes|Avoiding the Enemy of Change

Addressing F.U.D.

Recognize Purpose and Limitations

FUD – Impetus to Change FUD – Also Root of

Resistance to Change Think Back to What Keeps

You Up at Night!

Myth 1 | Complete Plan Needed Before Beginning

Myth

All Possibilities and Paths must be explored before beginning!

We cannot begin until ALL issues and concerns are addressed!

We must be READY!

Plans are important and needed

READY Does Not Exist A NOTION IS Sufficient to Start Notion Guides the Plan: Flexible Organic

Reality of Myth 1 | Notion Enough

How Can A Notion Be Enough?

Begin with the End in Mind Where Does the Organization

Want to End Up? Where Will the Journey Take

Your Organization? Getting Lost in Details is

Quicksand of Change

Reality of Myth 1 | Notion Enough

Myth 2 | Need a Lone Ranger

Myth Missing Piece is THE

Expert THE Expert Can Save

the Day If only had this

position/person, that would address our need!

Champion Needed Whole Greater Than Sum of

Parts Change Requires Broad Based

Involvement and Buy In Maxwell – “If you’re alone,

you’re not leading anybody, are you?”

Reality of Myth 2 | Champion Not Enough

Myth 3 | Need More Control to Change

Myth

Don’t have the authority!

Need to be on University Council!

If I only reported to the President / Provost!

Need More Departments to report to me!

“CONTROL is an Illusion!” Smutz 2010

More Control is Not Needed Influence More Important than

Position Power Negotiation and Buy-In Is

Required Herding is Needed

Reality of Myth 3 | Control is an Illusion

How Can You Overcome F.U.D. While Your Iceberg Is Melting?

Lead the Change

2: Pull Together a Guiding Team

Not Just Another Committee

Essential Empowered Mold the Notion

Does It Exist? Is the Need for

Change Unrecognized?

Do You Need to Elevate the Threat Level?

1: Create a Sense of Urgency

Steps developed by John Kotterand discussed in his book

Leading Change.

4: Communicating & Buy - In

K.I.S.S. Transparency Multi-Faceted

Approach Converted are

Selling Message

Vision = Sensible Pic. of the Future

Strategies = Logic to Get There

Feasible, Focused, and Flexible

3: Change Vision & Strategy

Steps developed by John Kotterand discussed in his book

Leading Change.

6: Short-Term Wins

Timed to: Provide

Evidence Reward

Change Agents Build

Momentum

Address Barriers: 4 S’s

Broad Based Involvement -Task Forces

Not Just Buttonology but Sociology

5: Empower Others to Act

Steps developed by John Kotterand discussed in his book

Leading Change.

8: Anchoring New Approach in Culture

Be Aware of Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Cannibalization of Change Unless New Practices Graft

See It Through Continue

Innovating Letting Up = Lose

of Momentum & Regression

7: Don’t Let Up

Steps developed by John Kotterand discussed in his book

Leading Change.

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