While many advisors are working to implement the Appreciative Advising® model on campus, the Dream and Design phases often fall short. Though it may be difficult to easily measure outcomes within the Dream phase, it directly informs the Design phase of the model. Learn how to facilitate the Dream phase of Appreciative Advising to better solidify your students’ aspirations and use the Design phase to outline a plan that will help achieve them.
Learn how you can update your career services reporting strategy with existing resources. You will be provided ideas and resources to help ensure that you are collecting the right data to better analyze your office’s performance. Obtain tips for how to better identify, track, and analyze metrics in order to: Harness the power of analytics in the career center Increase student engagement Develop tailored programming Advocate for resources tied to outcomes Make data-informed decisions
Standardize your framework for naming spaces on campus. Agenda Implementing Naming Policies Calculating space values Determining the baseline and final values of physical space Determining the value of programs, endowed chairs and professorships, and centers Procuring board approval Marketing available opportunities Additional Naming Considerations Duration De-Naming Demolishment/Renovation Getting Started in Developing a Naming Policy Working with academic and advancement leadership Action steps for the next month
Learn how to more effectively move donors through your pipeline. Agenda Evaluating and Managing your Leadership Donor Portfolio Moving donors into, and upgrading within, your leadership giving levels Effectively assessing and managing your leadership donor portfolio Developing goals and strategies for leadership donors Continuous leadership giving Upgrading for higher level annual giving Upgrading from leadership annual gift to major gift Beyond qualification: Identifying who manages the relationship Managing Productive Donor Visits Determining visit expectations and goals Using probing questions to build to a successful solicitation Stewardship Techniques to Effectively Manage and Transition Leadership Donors Engaging donors in continuous conversation Developing a unique stewardship program for leadership donors Tools to gather vital information to strategically build your relationship
Learn how you can better align your student affairs department’s mission, vision, and priorities with your institution’s overall strategic plan. This webcast will show you how to update the way your department works to advance the goals of your institution as a whole. We will focus on analyzing your: Current operations Positions Organizational structure Budget Workflow and tools
Develop tailored student conduct sanctions on a case by case basis. Agenda What is Advocacy Sanctioning Utilization of faculty/staff for advocacy and advisory programs Methods to apply advocacy sanctioning Formalized tools Rubrics Low-cost alternatives to traditional sanctioning
Learn how to better engage, track, and motivate your young alumni volunteers. Agenda Improving 4 Key Aspects of Volunteer Management TRACKING: Measuring progress and behaviors MOTIVATION: Using data and engagement opportunities ALIGNMENT: Providing growth and other outreach opportunities RECOGNITION: Using events, impact reports, and awards
Be more strategic with evaluating each of your events. Agenda Understanding Successful Events Unique identifiers of advancement event success Attendee mix Location Follow-up Concrete ROI evaluation for events Surveying and Data Collection Collecting data before, during, and after the event Leveraging event evaluations to develop unique, meaningful events How to Evaluate and Eliminate a Failing Event Focusing on mission-centric events Engaging event volunteers in other opportunities
Learn how you can improve your advising model to include coaching conversations that go beyond basic course selection. Highlighting Florida Atlantic University, we will show how they created another “level” of advisors who serve as academic success coaches for their at-risk students. We will discuss how to identify and prioritize specific student populations for coaching and how to maximize campus partnerships to increase the odds of success for at-risk students. You will leave this training better equipped to update your advising model to include elements of academic success coaching.
Improve your professional development strategy to better retain gift officers. Agenda Understanding Your Team and Varying Needs Auditing Existing Professional Development Understanding current issues Resource audit In-House Professional Development Models Solutions to enhance retention Tried and true methods Best new practices in retention efforts Sample progression plans Various institutional models Establishing Effective Coaching and Mentoring Programs
Learn about a model in which you can merge master planning processes with comprehensive condition audits in order to reduce deferred maintenance backlogs. Tim Carey, Associate Vice President for Facilities at Ithaca College, will highlight: The power of linking deferred maintenance to campus planning processes The specific tactics Ithaca College used to reduce their backlog How you can begin to experience similar success no matter what your campus context Even if your institution is not getting ready for a planning process, you will leave with tips on how to reduce your deferred maintenance backlog more thoughtfully / systematically. A Short Broadcast This is a short broadcast designed to showcase thoughtful practices in higher education. You will hear a colleague’s success story, learn main successes and challenges of a model, and have the opportunity to ask questions and receive a few pieces of advice about how to proceed on your campus.
Gain strategies to engage and direct at-risk students on a path to success. Agenda Making the most of critical timing in your outreach points Improving interdepartmental communication Using data and predictive modeling to inform your practice Engaging students through coaching Maximizing content and delivery in student meetings
Gain the skills you need to address and mitigate common challenges that deans face. Agenda The Academic Leader’s Role Four Leadership Best Practices Common Challenges for Academic Leaders: Scenarios Understanding the issue What would you do as a dean? Speaker’s experience and result Assessing the leadership practices Resources
Learn to develop a program that harnesses your students’ potential, pairs their skills with your shop’s vision and other student philanthropy efforts, and supports their own professional goals. Whether you are beginning a new effort or bolstering an existing program, this webcast will equip you with next steps and an arsenal of templates and resources to get the most out of your student foundation. Throughout the training you will hear how the College of William and Mary was able to successfully combine three dormant and unsuccessful student philanthropy groups into one strong student foundation by: Establishing a rigorous student selection process Providing extensive and specific training Setting transparent and firm expectations
Learn how York University has successfully created a culture of data-informed Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) on their campus through careful planning, meaningful partnerships, and ongoing dialogue with the campus community. Throughout this online training, we will explore how you can build off of the lessons learned at York University to engage your own campus stakeholders and meaningfully advance the conversation around SEM. Specifically, we will focus on how you can: Use storytelling and student personas to begin the conversation Develop a strong partnership between enrollment management and institutional research Build a cross-campus SEM committee and governance structure Continuously analyze and report your process to further refine SEM strategies
Learn practical ways to prepare your institution for an activity-based costing (ABC) model. During this training, we will walk you through how this model works, ways to assess your readiness to make this shift, and key considerations for the implementation process. You will leave better prepared to answer questions such as: How is ABC being deployed for financial and academic decisions? What’s the best way to determine cost/revenue drivers? How can I prepare for the full ABC implementation cycle? What are the system requirements for a successful ABC implementation?
Implement an impact reporting process that targets a wide range of donors. Agenda Improving Your Impact Reports What to include Targeting segments of the donor pyramid Tiering dissemination Strategizing for Your Impact Reporting Process Creating a plan Timelines Scaling based on resources Tracking/ROI metrics What to track after impact report dissemination
Learn how to write more effective and consistent communications to your donors. Agenda Dos and Don’ts of Advancement Communications Common pitfalls Understanding your voice and communication style The Four Pillars of Donor Communications Information Persuasion Gratitude Impact Ensuring Consistency across Your Shop Cross-team collaboration to maintain more uniform donor communications Best practices for ongoing implementation Workshopping Examples
Athletics are an organic opportunity to deepen and strengthen alumni engagement. During this online training, you will learn how an intentional collaboration across athletics and alumni relations offices can: Better engage alumni with your institution Open your donor pipeline to a wider alumni base Save on resources for both your athletics and alumni relations departments Increase giving to your institution Attend this online training to learn how you can better align your alumni relations and athletics fundraising teams to engage alumni and ultimately increase giving. This training focuses on understanding strategic alumni engagement opportunities, but will not go into event planning specifics.
Gain tangible, flexible, and evidence-based methods to immediately begin collecting and using data to inform your learning commons design. Kristin Meyer, User Experience Librarian, will show you how Grand Valley State University collected user driven data to improve its spaces. You will learn how you can adapt those methods to your unique institutional context and improve your own learning commons. Throughout the online training you will have the opportunity to look at photos of learning commons spaces to better visualize the topics discussed.
