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Explore the essentials of integrated planning in higher education, from creating shared plans to fostering commitment and effective resource deployment. Learn the six key competencies and how to navigate power dynamics for successful outcomes.
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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
A Faculty Network Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science PLoS ONE | www.plosone.org March 2009 | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | e4803
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