Leadership Development Series: Planning 101 – Academic and Strategic Planning

This series is intended for department chairs and academic center directors, along with associate deans and others in management positions.

Strategic planning describes the – more or less – systematic process of figuring out where a department needs to go, and how to get there. Whether it is the revision of a curriculum, making decisions about whom to hire, or getting the different areas of a department to think together rather than as discrete groups, planning is part of the intellectual process of a unit, and doing it strategically is ideal.

The session will help chairs and directors define the planning process, and to understand what should be in place before embarking on a planning process in the first place. It will be led by individuals who have done planning before in a host of different settings, and will give chairs a chance to ask questions, work through problems, and figure out what kinds of planning might be right for their units.

Lunch will be provided.

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The Leadership Development Series, sometimes known as “chairs chats,” offers a variety of workshops and seminars for department chairs and academic center directors, along with associate deans and others in management positions. The sessions – some of which follow the peer-to-peer (“chat”) model, and some of which will be led by experienced chairs and other academic leaders – emphasize the development of aptitudes and skills associated with academic leadership. The offerings can be categorized into four main areas:

• Strategic planning
• Supervision and management
• Budgets and finance
• Climate and inclusion

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