Driving Excellence at the University of Minnesota

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• Driving Excellence at the University of Minnesota

Thursday, January 31, 2008 McNamara Center 1000
a.m. 3 p.m.
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• This years Quality Fair highlights efforts to
  achieve the Universitys four strategic
  objectives.

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• Creating a Poster Session

For high impact and engagement
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Why Present a Poster at the Quality Fair?

• Its FUN!
• Celebrate your units progress
• Reflect on elements of your success
• Connect with others from across campus
• Help others learn from your experience to solve
  their challenges and propel University into a
  more successful future

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Criteria for an Effective Poster

• Clearly articulate opportunity/challenge
• Illustrate method used to address the challenge
• Demonstrate benefits to your unit and/or across
  campus
• Visual display of the project/process
• Flowcharts
• Before and after pictures
• Graphs
• Project Improvement Charter Form
• Show how the approach might be applied in other
  units (if appropriate)

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Highlight Potential Benefits

• Enhanced service to students, faculty, staff
• Advanced the campus strategic priorities
  exceptional students, exceptional faculty and
  staff, exceptional organization, exceptional
  innovation
• Saved time and/or resources
• Improved campus climate
• Increased effectiveness and/or efficiency

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ProjectImprovement Charter
Documenting Your Improvement

• The Charter template will help you document your
  project/process improvement
• Once completed, you have a tool to organize your
  poster exhibit
• Project Improvement Charter can be found at
  www.umn.edu/osci

• DRAFT

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Who Is My Audience?

• Campus Leaders and Administrators
• Faculty
• Staff
• Students

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Basic Poster Session Example

• 36 x 48 foam core poster, 6 or 8 foot tables.
• We encourage Creative Ideas / New ideas welcome.

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Design Tips

• Keep things simple
• Use graphics
• Limit the amount of text
• Use fonts that are easy to read

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Assembly Options

• Cut and paste
• Create your visual display in PowerPoint or Word
• Print each component in finished size
• Attach components to poster board

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Poster Resources
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Sources for Materials

• Printing Services (print small quantities of 12
  x 18 or smaller posters on Docu-color machine
  for reasonable rates)
• U Sign Shop (large format printing, mounting,
  laminating, banners, etc.)
• Copy Centers for color and black and white output

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Handout Materials(50-75 copies should be
sufficient)

• Completed summary of Improvement Charter
• Additional handouts are only necessary if they
  will help to further explain or clarify your
  improvemaent

Suggestion have a sign-up sheet available for
materials that you may run out of.
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Set Up and Tear Down

• Arrange for 2 to 3 people to staff your booth
  from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (you can trade off and
  view other poster sessions and attend breakout
  sessions)
• Bring your poster materials and set up between 7
  a.m. and 930 a.m. Posters and other materials
  may be dropped off between 1 and 430 p.m. the
  day before in the Maroon room
• McNamara Center doors open at 700 a.m.
• Exhibit/Demos should be fully set up at McNamara
  Center by 930 a.m. on Thursday, January 31
  (Poster exhibits and demos open 10 a.m.-3 p.m.)
• Take exhibit down after 3 p.m. Materials can be
  stored in the Maroon room until 430 p.m.,
  Thursday, January 31.

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Layout of Great Hall
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More Information

• To explore ideas for a poster exhibit, please
  contact
• Joyce Wascoe
• 612-626-7682
• jwascoe_at_umn.edu
• Poster exhibit information will also be available
  at http//www.umn.osci