Innovation and Professional Development: A Premier Professional Development Initiative Jamie Justice, Kentucky Community and Technical College System

Performance Based

Professional Development

Leadership Development

Institutes

New Employee Development

Program

Engagement Strategies

INNOVATIONCOLLABORATION

Blended Modalities

System-Level PD

Premier PD ProgramCommon Vision

Portal, Repositories, Badges

Random Thoughts on Professional Development

The Reaction

Strategic Plan or Reactive Response

What is “Premier” Professional Development?

Change Management Mechanism

Question: What is the first reaction that is most common when “Professional Development” is mentioned or announced?

Why this response?

Why this reaction?

Professional Development: The Reaction

Vision for Professional Development

What is the most common approach to professional development planning?

Reactive

Strategic

Think About It

• Think of a time in your past when you attended a professional development program or training and everything just pulled you in, engaged you and when you left you were really excited and charged to apply what you learned.

• Now think about what it was that made that experience so powerful?

Change Management Mechanism

• Professional Development for Change and Innovation:

• ADKAR• Innovation Talent Development• School for Innovators• TED Talks• Technology Applications

Climbing Mt. Premier: KCTCS Office For Professional Development and Innovation

• New Model and New Vision for KCTCS

• Collaboratively Designed and Delivered Professional Development Activities

• Innovation Focused

• Leadership, Service and Support

Climbing Mt. Premier

• Begin by Beginning• Establish a Vision• Create a Structure• Maximize and Utilize Resources• Plan Collaboratively• Identify the Pain• Innovate, Plan, and React• Implement and Adapt

The Pain• System-level Professional Development occurs in

One Annual Conference• Limited Leadership Development and Supervisor

Training • Inefficient use of Limited Training Resources• No System-level Leadership or Coordination

Supporting Colleges• Duplication of Professional Development across

System• Limited Professional Development Opportunities• Lack of Support for New Employees

What has Happened to DateThe Process• Formation of the KCTCS PD Peer Team• Initial Charter and Charge- Climbing Mount

Premier• Created the Office for Professional Development

and Innovation• Peer Team meetings and planning, benchmarking,

survey, R&D, and plan proposal• Pain Tour 2013/14 –• System-wide Survey• Operational Plan Development• Final Peer Team Recommendations

Summary Results

• Areas of Need: Leadership Development and System-level PD.

• Survey: 1100 responses• 70% say PD for their position is offered• 83% say they have participated in at least 1 PD per semester

• Top 5 PD requested from pre-determined list• Leadership workshops (488)• PeopleSoft Topics (432)• Microsoft Excel (431)• Conflict Resolution (379)• Student Services Topics (343)

Recommendations

• Create an Enterprise-wide Leadership Development Program

• Create an Enterprise-wide Professional Development Program • Performance Based PD Program and Institutes

• General Professional Development Program and Institutes

• Create a New Employee Development Institute

• Create a one-stop portal

• Establish process for validation and quality of offerings.

• Provide regional professional development institutes

• Gaining expertise to boost efficiency and effectiveness

• Initiatives: Positive Impact and System-wide Impact

• Identify Skill Gaps: Align Learning Activities and

Development Plans

• Continuous Learning

• Innovation Pathways

• Foster Continuous Learning and Improvement

• Increase Productivity and Work Relations

Enterprise-wide Leadership Development

Enterprise-wide Leadership Development

What will this look Like

• Year Long for Faculty and Staff• Dedicated Management Team• An Academy Approach• Programs and Specific Pathways • Current and Emerging Leadership Training• Faculty Staff Programs and Paths

Enterprise-wide Professional Development• KCTCS Certified Trainer network • Emphasis on hands on, learner engagement and hi-impact

training methodologies• Delivered through a coordinated network of certified

master trainers.• Enhance overall professional development through highly

focused, hi-impact managed regional institutes• Ensure system-level trainings are consistent across the

System• Employees participate through a variety of delivery

modalities

KCTCS Performance Based Institutes

• ASTD Certified Master Trainers • Participation Based Delivery• Hi Impact, Hi Demand Focus• Standardized/Modularized

Program• Certifications/Badges/Other• Training Pathways • Scalable, Measurable and

Sustainable

New Employee Development Institute

• Enterprise-wide Support of New Employees

• Role of KCTCS Colleges in the Commonwealth

• Improved Training for first Time Faculty

• Reduced Costs through a Standardized Program

• Peer to Peer Developed and Delivered Programs

Premier Professional Development• Needs Based• Accessible and Ongoing• Quality Assurance for Content Design and Delivery• Collaborative – PD Peer Team and OPDI Close Working

Relationship• Performance Based• Tied to Specific “Pain” and System Initiatives• Cost Effective• Efficient• High Impact Service and Support

New Vision for Professional Development

• Transition from Attendance-based to Performance-based PD

• Transform from Conference Model to Institutes• Accessible, multi-modality, performance based

offerings• Minimum Quality Standards • Content and Learning Management Structure• Innovation Focused – Jumping Gaps• Proactive and Responsive

• One-stop Portal for All PD• Coordinated PAIN focused

Offerings• Collaborative Planning and

Offerings• Faculty and Staff Driven• Badges Model • Collegial Learning Models• Innovation and Research Focused

New Vision for Professional Development

OPDI Immediate Response

• Peoplesoft Regional Trainings (ARR)

• Excel Regional Trainings

• KOILS: Innovation T & L (pedagogy & tech day)

• April T & L Regional Institutes

• Leadership Institutes

• Master Trainers/Certified Trainers

• Continue to Look for Trends (locally, regionally,

statewide)

QuestionsJamie Justice, System Director for Professional Development and Innovation

Kentucky Community and Technical College System

859-256-3295 Office859-333-9142 Celljamie.justice@kctcs.edu