Stream 3: Institutional Leadership

3.1 Institutional Culture

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
9:00am - 12:00pm
Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic)

Session Description

Have you ever wondered how decisions are made at Queen's? This session will both the formal and informal structures and processes for making decisions and influencing change at Queen's.

Session Objectives

Participants will:

• understand formal decision making bodies at Queen's; and
• learn effective strategies to bring issues forward for resolution.

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3.2 Strategic Planning

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
9:00am - 12:00pm
Douglas Reid, School of Business

Session Description

This session will introduce participants to the main concepts in strategy as it is practiced in organizations. Any leader must have conversance with the major concepts of strategy if he/she has ambitions to change or redirect an organization.

Session Objectives

• Participants will be introduced to the basic concepts and applications of strategy. These can be applied readily to settings in higher education, or indeed, any organization.
• The session will show the linkage between the concept of strategy and implementation of strategy. In so doing it will differentiate between strategy and tactics.
• Participants will be introduced to the core ideas of strategic planning as it is practiced in leading organizations. From this, the challenges faced by leaders in deciding and implementing strategy will be made more vivid by considering the process of securing consensus and driving change.

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3.3 Leadership Learning Networks

Wednesday, April 10, 2013
9:00am - 12:00pm
Michelle MacDonald, Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network (Tech Value Net)

Session Description

As institutions, we don’t work in isolation. Leaders must engage with other stakeholders both internally and externally to achieve results. This session will explore the value of networks within the institution and externally with industry, government and not for profits.

Session Objectives

Participants will:

• Gain a better understanding of the benefits of networking;
• Explore the challenges and complexity of networks; and
• Provide concrete strategies for forming, growing and maintaining networks.

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3.4 Trends and Issues in Higher Education

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
9:00am - 12:00pm
Chris Knapper, Director Emeritus, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Session Description

This session will explore the meaning of leadership in the context of higher education in the twenty-first century. We will identify several of the issues that have emerged with the massification of higher education and concomitant resource scarcity, particularly issues related to access, quality and accountability. Our discussion will include student enrolment management geared towards the engagement, retention and success of students characterized by diversity, internationalization, and exposure to and familiarity with a wide range of complex, sophisticated information and communication technologies from birth. Participants will identify challenges and barriers to effective institutional leadership in this context and explore innovative strategies for overcoming them at both the institutional and individual levels.

Session Objectives

Participants will create the outline of a targeted leadership intervention for addressing a challenge associated with one of the trends and issues in higher education identified during the session.

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