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Integrated Planning−What Does It Take?. Innovations 2012 Phyllis Grummon, PhD Society for College and University Planning. Audience Survey. Have you engaged in creating a strategic, academic, operational, or other plan on your campus?
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Integrated Planning−What Does It Take? Innovations 2012 Phyllis Grummon, PhD Society for College and University Planning
Audience Survey • Have you engaged in creating a strategic, academic, operational, or other plan on your campus? • On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best outcomes possible, how would you rate that planning experience?
What Planning Is Not…. A blue print
What Planning Is Not…. A set of platitudes
What Planning is Not… The personal vision of the president or the board
What Planning is Not… Done once at a retreat
What Is Planning? • Identifying priorities and making sure resources are aligned behind them • Making choices from a host of possibilities • Shaping the future • Assessing where you are in light of your stated goals
What Is Planning? Planning is about making choices
Integrated Planning Creates A Process That…. …Produces a Shared Plan
Integrated Planning Creates A Process That…. Encourages Commitment
Integrated Planning Benefits • More transparency, less feuding • Resources when and where they are needed • Academic planning drives the process • Shared understanding of each other’s world • Owned by a campus
What Does It Take? Six Competencies 6 C
Six competencies • It’s all about the PEOPLE
Six competencies • Speak their LANGUAGE
Six competencies • Know how to manage a planning PROCESS
Six competencies • Produce a shared PLAN
Six Competencies Read the planning CONTEXT
Six competencies • Gather and deploy RESOURCES
Speaking Their Language A Tool to Help You: The Campus Glossary
Planning Language • Net Square Feet • Not Sufficient Funds • National Science Foundation • Nintendo Sound Format • Not So Fast
Planning Language Tool • 30 Second Tool • Write an abbreviation you use. • Pass it to a neighbor, who will write down what she or he thinks those letters stand for.
Planning Language Tool • On campus, use this tool to start a planning glossary. Have functions write down the ‘jargon’they use and share it with others. • Collect the terms and create a shared glossary in Google Docs or other campus web sharing tool.
What Fosters Integrated Planning Inside the Six Competencies 6 C
People, Power, and Politics • It’s all about the PEOPLE
Formal Power • Structural—where you sit in the organizational chart • Resources—what you decide that controls acquisition and distribution • Information—with whom, and how, you choose to share information under your control
Structure Governance Administration
Resources Acquisition Distribution • Hiring • Fund Raising • Grants • Auxiliary Services • Equipment • Other…. • Positions • Equipment • Undesignated Funds • Athletic Tickets • Parking • Other…
Information Access Distribution • Security • Analysis • Use—reward, punishment, monitoring • External Surveys • Program Evaluations • Timeliness • “User Friendly” • To whom, for what purposes • Dashboards
Informal Power • Networks—connections you have to others with power; access • Influence—reputation, knowledge, skills in facilitation and negotiation • Performance—person/task fit
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Influence Reputation
Influence Wisdom Judgment Knowledge Evaluation Information Analysis Data
Influence Relationship Skills
Influence Person/Task Fit
Where Do You Fit? Formal Power You Informal Power
Your Power Map • What sources of power do you have? • Which sources of power do you use regularly? • Any you should rely on less frequently? • Are there any sources of power that you could use more effectively?
Your Power Map Family and Friends Positions Outside of Work People You Supervise
Resources • Society for College and University Planning—www.scup.org • Jeffrey Pfeffer, Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations, 1993, Harvard Business Review Press • Ernest Boyer, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professorate, 1997, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Resources • Don Norris and Nick Poulton, A Guide to Planning for Change, 2008, Society for College and University Planning • George Keller, Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education, 1983, The John Hopkins University Press • The SCUP Planning Institute—www.scup.org/pi