Paradigm Shifts in Institutional Research

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Paradigm Shifts in Institutional Research

• Dr. Daina Paupe Henry
• College of William and Mary
• SAIR 2005 Charleston, SC

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Or Who Moved My Cheese?By Spencer Johnson,
M.D.
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Who moved my cheese?

• Once, long ago in a land far away, there lived
  four little characters who ran through a Maze
  looking for cheese to nourish them and make them
  happy.
• Their names were Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw.

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Where did the cheese go?
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Sniff
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Scurry
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Hem
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Haw
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Who took my cheese?
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Haws advice to Hem

• Having cheese makes you happy.
• The more important your cheese is to you, the
  more you want to hold on to it (or to get it
  back, when it is missing.)

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Exercise 1

• What is your cheese? What makes you happy? What
  would make you happy? What is the best cheese
  in the world?
• On the paper labeled Exercise 1, make a list of
  three things that make you happy- something which
  if taken away you would want to get back?

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Haws clue on adaptation

• If you do not adapt to new cheese, you can
  become extinct.

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Haws advice on fear

• What would or could you do if you were not
  afraid?
• When you stop feeling afraid, you can start to
  feel good.

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Haw and cognitive dissonance

• Imagining yourself enjoying your new cheese can
  lead you to it.

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Haws advice on environmental scanning

• Smell the cheese often - so you know when it is
  getting old.
• Movement in a new direction helps you find cheese.

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Haws words on getting to your goal

• The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner
  you find new cheese.
• It is better to search in the maze, than remain
  in a cheese-less situation.

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Courage quotes

• When I am holding on to the past, I dont have
  my hands free to reach the future.
• To cross an ocean, you have to leave sight of
  land.

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Haw puts first things first

• Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to
  the bigger changes that are to come.

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Haw puts it into perspective

• Haw started to change as soon as he had learned
  to laugh at himself and at what he had been doing
  wrong.

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NEW CHEESE!!!
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Exercise 2

• The situation just described happens everyday.
  On the paper with the mice, think about a
  business/personal situation you have experienced.
  Label the cartoons Hem, Haw, Sniff and Scurry
  with the initials of the people who fit those
  characteristics. Label the old and new cheese.

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Dictionary definition of paradigm

• a philosophical and theoretical framework of a
  scientific school or discipline within which
  theories, laws, and generalizations and the
  experiments performed in support of them are
  formulated

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What is a paradigm?

• They are a set of assumptions, beliefs,
  philosophies, and ways of doing things.
• They are habits and processes.
• And until they change, we usually dont notice
  them.

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What are paradigm shifts?

• Paradigm shifts are changes from one way of
  thinking to another. It is a different view of
  the same thing. It is a change in perspective.

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How and when do they happen?

• Paradigm shifts happen everyday.
• New technology.
• New knowledge.
• New people.
• New circumstances.

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Thomas Kuhn

• Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Galileo and Einstein
• Process of change in science.

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Why are there paradigm shifts?

• Change happens (!! happens).
• Change is inevitable.

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Exercise 3

• On the sheet labeled Exercise 3, list at least 1
  but no more than five things that never, ever,
  ever change, not in the slightest.
• Compare your list with the person next to you.
  Be prepared to discuss your answers.

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The Handwriting on the Wall

• Change happens
• Anticipate change
• Monitor change
• Adapt to the change quickly
• Change yourself
• Enjoy change
• Be ready to change again

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Change quotes

• For everything there is a season, there is a
  time to reap and a time to sow, a time to live,
  and a time to die.
• We cannot change the wind, but we can adjust the
  sails.

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Exercise 4

• You have been provided with a copy of the Holmes
  Rahe Stress Test. Please take 5 minutes to
  complete the test and grade yourself.
• What knowledge did you gain from this?

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Change is inevitable.

• The Holmes Rahe Test is a test of stress most
  of the items imply a change of some sort to your
  life.
• Notice Christmas and vacations are on the list.

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Break time
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Two types of change

• There are basically two types of change in life
  ones that you can control and ones that you
  cannot.

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Serenity Prayer

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
  cannot change, the courage to change the things I
  can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Exercise 5

• On the sheet labeled Exercise 5, there is a list
  of changes.
• For those you have no control over draw an arrow
  to the left.
• For those you do have control over draw an arrow
  to the right.
• What can you conclude?

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Two types of change

• You cannot control external events.
• You can control internal ones.
• And most importantly, you can control YOUR
  REACTION to external events.

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Psychology of change

• When situations change two things happen
• Assimilation
• Accomodation

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Psychology of change

• Kubler Ross 5 stages of grief
• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance

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Adjusting to change.

• Hem never changed his reaction to an external
  event.
• Hem never became proactive, never took control.

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Exercise 6

• First, on the sheet labeled Exercise 6, what
  would you change about yourself if you could?
• Second, what would you change about the world
  around you?
• Lastly, how could you change to make the change
  in number 2 happen?

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What can we learn from Sniff, Scurry and Haw?
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Sniff
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Scurry
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Haw
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Change comes from within

• You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot
  make it drink.

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Coveys 7 habits and change

• Be proactive I am in control of my world and
  its changes.
• The cheese is gone and what am I going to do
  about it.

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Begin with the end in mind.

• The cheese is gone.
• I want cheese.
• I must therefore find new cheese.
• Visualize what new cheeses you can find.

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Put first things first.

• Start with the first step.
• Take a step into the maze.
• Write on the walls.

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The first step to change is acceptance

• The journey of a thousand miles, begins with the
  first step.
• Beware the first step outside your door, you
  never know where it will lead you.

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Think Win/Win.

• Imagine all the cheese in the world.
• Haw goes back to try to convince Hem to find new
  cheese.
• Sniff and Scurry do not hide the cheese or keep
  Haw from having some also.

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Seek to understand, then to be understood.

• Assess what happened.
• Try to communicate.
• Write on the walls.
• Read the handwriting on the wall.

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Synergize.

• Write on the wall so others can follow.
• Creative cooperation Sniff and Scurry worked
  together.

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Sharpen the saw.

• As Haw wrote on the wall, be prepared to change
  again.
• The cheese will move. Adapt to change.
• Haw laughed at himself as he reflected.

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Change as the precursor to opportunity

• When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
• Bloom where you are planted.

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Exercise 7

• On the sheet of paper, think back on a situation
  when you were without cheese. How did you
  respond?

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Change is relative

• Sometimes it is slow, sometimes it is fast
• Sometimes we dont even know we are changing.
• Sometimes it is big, and sometimes it is little.
• We need to put it in perspective.
• I am sitting still, moving rapidly at a million
  miles per hour

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Even galaxies change
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Henry table of change
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Small change is easier than big change

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Get ready to shift your paradigm.

• Any questions?
• dphenr_at_wm.edu