Presenters: Tracy Pascua Dea and Verna Bowie
Session Description: Organizational change is often initiated by crisis, new leadership, personnel turnover, policy, or compliance. Managing change and uncertainty have become seemingly expected responsibilities and norms for staff within UC Berkeley’s academic units. Their institutional memory and collective experiences are especially relevant in change management and are often underutilized. Their knowledge of campus administrative procedures and their perspectives and insights can help inform many new and existing strategies, such as new financial strategies, student enrollments, and faculty, staff, and student experiences. Established mechanisms focusing on individual units (while maintaining a campus-wide perspective) are effective ways for staff to intentionally participate in discussions that will impact their unit. One such mechanism is the academic program review (APR) process, which will be reviewed in detail in this session. Participants will also engage in an interactive component to assess their strengths and conflict style, learn strategies and resources to manage change and chaos, and leverage positionality and organizational context to transform culture and climate, move the needle, and disrupt the status quo.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn strategies and resources to strengthen change management and coalition-building skills
- Leverage your and your colleagues' strengths and current organizational context to affect culture
- Understand the relevance of APR to campus, to you, and to your unit, and use it as a lever to enact positive change within your unit
Materials:
- Presentation Deck
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