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Start & End Meetings On Time

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Colleges are busy places, and any number of things can come up that might prevent members’ timely arrival and departure. While unforeseen...

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Doers & Inputters: Minimizing Burn Out

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I've argued that typical institutions of higher education have only about three months to work on major priorities (see the article with ...

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Student Success: Food, Grounds, & Janitorial Services Workers

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Imagine a scenario where there is a vice president, academic senate president, faculty from a variety of disciplines, union president, gr...

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Before Implementing, Discover

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Organizations that experience change often need to move at the pace of trust, but it should start with the work. In academia, sitting aro...

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Planning & Implementation: Creating Common Language

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When institutions of higher education launch new initiatives they often neglect to define a process to the broader campus to help articul...

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Structure: Grant Proposal Sanity

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It never ceases to amaze me how manyĀ colleges continue to work hard and not smart in terms of grant development. I often hear how compreh...

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Growth Mindset: Another Flavor of the Month?

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December 10, 2018

It’s difficult to escape conversations about new or relatively new initiatives in both K12 and higher education withou...

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Change

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I’ve come across a multitude of visuals that represent the challenges of managing complex change within an organization. Most are related...

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Facilitator Considerations

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Many years ago I worked with some of the most talented and aspiring educators and researchers formerly of an R&D and services organizatio...

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Doing the Ordinary Extraordinarily Well

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For three years I helped to lead a project to assist community colleges with integrated planning. With so many initiatives and priorities...

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