2. What Keeps You Up at Night?
Faculty Student Recruitment
Student Retention
Enrollment Graduation Rates
External Encroachment by Other
Pressures
Institutions into Your
Fundraising Market
Inability to Attract a
Quality
Specific Emerging Market
3. What Keeps You Up at Night?
Enrollment
Student Performance
Quality (Learning Outcomes)
External
Faculty Professional
Pressures Development
Faculty
Institution and/or Program
Accreditation
Fundraising
4. What Keeps You Up at Night?
Enrollment Institution and/or Program
Accreditation
Pressures
New Administration
Quality New State or Federal
Policies
Faculty
Pressure from Alumni and
Fundraising
Boards to Do X, Y, and Z
5. How Are You Dealing with Challenges?
Projects
Interventions
Policy Adjustments
Full Scale Initiatives
Data Systems
Implementation
9. Memes|Avoiding the Enemy of Change
Beliefs Perpetuated by Society
Learned Thought Patterns
Generate Myths about Reality
Myths Produce Fear,
Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD)
10. Addressing F.U.D.
Recognize Purpose and
Limitations
FUD – Impetus to Change
FUD – Also Root of
Resistance to Change
Think Back to What Keeps
You Up at Night!
11. Myth 1 | Complete Plan Needed Before Beginning
Myth
All Possibilities and
Paths must be
explored before
beginning!
We cannot begin
until ALL issues and
concerns are
addressed!
We must be READY!
12. Reality of Myth 1 | Notion Enough
Plans are important and
needed
READY Does Not Exist
A NOTION IS Sufficient to Start
Notion Guides the Plan:
Flexible
Organic
13. Reality of Myth 1 | Notion Enough
How Can A Notion Be Enough?
Begin with the End in Mind
Where Does the Organization
Want to End Up?
Where Will the Journey Take
Your Organization?
Getting Lost in Details is
Quicksand of Change
14. Myth 2 | Need a Lone Ranger
Myth
Missing Piece is THE
Expert
THE Expert Can Save
the Day
If only had this
position/person,
that would address
our need!
15. Reality of Myth 2 | Champion Not Enough
Champion Needed
Whole Greater Than Sum of
Parts
Change Requires Broad Based
Involvement and Buy In
Maxwell – “If you’re alone,
you’re not leading anybody, are
you?”
16. Myth 3 | Need More Control to Change
Myth
Don’t have the
authority!
Need to be on
University Council!
If I only reported to the
President / Provost!
Need More
Departments to report
to me!
17. Reality of Myth 3 | Control is an Illusion
“CONTROL is an Illusion!”
Smutz 2010
More Control is Not Needed
Influence More Important than
Position Power
Negotiation and Buy-In Is
Required
Herding is Needed
18. How Can You Overcome F.U.D. While
Your Iceberg Is Melting?
20. 2: Pull Together a
Guiding Team
Not Just Another
1: Create a Sense of Committee
Urgency Essential
Does It Exist? Empowered
Is the Need for Mold the Notion
Change
Unrecognized?
Do You Need to
Elevate the Threat Steps developed by John Kotter
and discussed in his book
Level? Leading Change.
21. 3: Change Vision &
Strategy
4: Communicating &
Vision = Sensible Buy - In
Pic. of the Future
Strategies = Logic
to Get There K.I.S.S.
Feasible, Focused, Transparency
and Flexible Multi-Faceted
Approach
Converted are
Steps developed by John Kotter
and discussed in his book Selling Message
Leading Change.
22. 6: Short-Term Wins
5: Empower Others
to Act Timed to:
Provide
Address Barriers: Evidence
4 S’s Reward
Broad Based Change Agents
Involvement - Build
Task Forces Momentum
Not Just
Buttonology but Steps developed by John Kotter
and discussed in his book
Sociology Leading Change.
23. 7: Don’t Let Up
8: Anchoring New
See It Through Approach in Culture
Continue
Innovating Be Aware of Self
Letting Up = Lose Fulfilling
of Momentum & Prophecy
Regression Cannibalization of
Change Unless
New Practices
Steps developed by John Kotter
and discussed in his book
Leading Change.
Graft
27. For More Information| Stay Connected
Dr. Luke Dowden
337-482-6022
luke.dowden@louisiana.edu
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