Agenda

Your registration fee includes full access to all conference sessions and materials, breakfast, lunch, and access to the networking reception on Monday, breakfast and lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as refreshments and snacks throughout the conference.

8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

Anytime you bring together groups of people, you will have multiple perspective and working styles. We’ll use the Hermann Brain Dominance Inventory as a lens for looking at engagement and creating the conditions for collaboration.

Conceptual Framework: 3 Questions
Why do some people readily engage in change efforts while others hold back? We’ll introduce you to the three questions people ask themselves as they decide whether or not to personally invest in a group. These also serve as lenses for creating the conditions of participation and commitment.

 

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We often approach change efforts from a deficit mentality, trying to fix what’s wrong or not working. In this session, we’ll introduce appreciative Inquiry, a strength-based approach to planning and innovating as a more productive means of engaging stakeholders and moving change efforts forward.

 

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This case will demonstrate how the faculty in a school of public health was meaningfully engaged in the redesign of their Master's in Public Health degree.  

 

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In our second case, we’ll explore an example of a large and decentralized community college that had two campuses and was coming together under a single governing structure for the first time. Using the techniques presented in this program, they gathered more than 200 faculty and campus leaders to identify the big issues and compelling themes that would guide their new strategic plan.

 

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Collaborative meetings can accelerate your strategic change initiatives. We’ll introduce the underlying structure of a good, collaborative/participatory meeting. We’ll use the work we’ve done together to illustrate the Flow Model and how its use helps you people engaged and committed to the discussion.

 

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This is an opportunity to “go to the balcony” and shift from active participant to reflective observer and do sensemaking of the material presented. This will be an opportunity to consider implications and discuss emerging questions.

Homework: Scan the design book and see what catches your attention/piques your interest. Be prepared to discuss this on Day 2.   

 

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This informal reception is your chance to decompress, have some refreshments on us, and expand your network of connections. Our programs are intentionally designed for smaller groups, so this is a great time to catch-up with attendees and speakers whom you may not have connected with yet.

 

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8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

 

We’ll explore additional methods by which you can engage stakeholders across silos and across the campus to move a change process forward.

 

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While silos serve a functional purpose, they reinforce fragmented or partial views of the whole. We’ll walk through multiple ways to create a holistic view of the institution and use it to establish relevance and generate momentum towards the new initiative.

 

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As a way of applying the concepts and tools, small groups will be given a design challenge. This will highlight both the structure and flexibility in designing a collaborative meeting or process.

 

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This case focuses on the use of a one-day faculty/staff retreat to refocus and re-energize a strategic plan.  

 

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We often divide up a strategic effort by forming committees or task forces to take on different pieces of the whole. These groups do their work and then have the challenge of selling (or getting buy in) to their recommendations from others. In this mini case study, we’ll explore how we flipped this dynamic.

 

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We’ll provide templates to help you scope out a real situation where convening and engaging campus stakeholders would be critical to moving a strategic effort forward.

 

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8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

We’ll explore additional methods by which you can convene large groups to gather data, synthesize information, and make recommendations to move a change process forward.

 

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Time to translate the tools into a useable, meaningful back-home application is an essential part of the learning process. We’ll designate time in the session for individuals (or teams) to draft a collaborative design and get feedback from small consulting groups. This is an opportunity for individual integration and for learning from and supporting the efforts of others.

 

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Alone and with a thought partner, you will identify specific steps that you can take when you return to your campus.

 

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We’ll reflect on the last three days and distill the most important lessons and takeaways about working with larger groups to tackle your institution’s most difficult challenges.