Enhancing Institutional Leadership: Preparing staff for supervisory and leadership roles

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Enhancing Institutional Leadership Preparing
staff for supervisory and leadership roles
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LEADERSHIP

• What does the word mean to you?

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Agenda

• What weve learned from related Leadership
  Development processes
• What we are currently doing to meet Leadership
  development requirements
• Lets do more - a plan for enhancing Leadership
  Development opportunities for APOs

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• Companies that emphasized leadership development
  outperformed others by 15 times over the past 60
  years.
• Centre for Creative Leadership

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Our Leadership Challenge

• Universities today face many challenges
• attracting and then retaining top quality faculty
  and staff
• meeting the changing expectations of students,
  parents and employers
• responding to growing demands for transparency
  and accountability from governments
• funding agencies and the public

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Our Leadership Challenge

• Research tells us that effective leadership is
  what makes the difference in an organization's
  ability to deal with pressures for change.
  However, what effective leadership looks like in
  practice is also changing.
• We are seeing dramatic shifts in the roles and
  skills required of leaders, at all levels in an
  organization. Traditional managerial
  competencies must be accompanied by new
  competencies

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Themes Recommendations

• Leadership programs are best when they
• Connect to the Organizations Strategic Plan
• Have strong commitment and involvement of Senior
  Leaders
• Include evident links to HR systems such as
  Performance Development, Succession Planning,
  Recruitment

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Themes Recommendations

• Leadership programs are best when they
• Utilize a Branded (customized in-house)
  approach
• Incorporate a variety of learning methodologies
  and extensive use of Assessment, Action Learning,
  Coaching and Mentoring

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Leadership in Context at the UofA

• Increase the cause and effect relationship
  between leadership development and institutional
  success (execute UofA strategic plan)
• Attract and retain top UofA talent (employer of
  choice)
• Reduce liability and limit risk

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Leadership in Context at the UofA

• Increase the capacity and capability of
  Leadership at UofA now and in the future
• Embed a leadership philosophy respectful of the
  UofA culture
• Many leaders dont know they dont know

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• What we are Trying to Accomplish

• To create a UofA Leadership Development system
  that
• is desired by all levels of UofA leaders,
• supports the UofA culture, and
• meets the changing needs of UofA leaders.

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Engaging the Community

• Responding to needs assessments
• Enhancing Leadership Development Programs and
  Workplace Learning Calendar offerings
• Establishing a Human Resource Strategic Plan that
  reflects the importance of Leadership Development
  on Campus
• One-on-one interviews with executives
• Invitations to Councils

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Where to from here..?

• Where we started from
• Where we ARE
• Where we want to be?

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Our Top Challenges at the UofA

• Breakout in groups
• Brainstorm and prioritize the top 3 Challenges
  around Leadership Development at the UofA

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Moving to Strategy

• Possible thought provoking strategies to enable
  Leadership Development on campus in a more
  deliberate way..

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