The Cumberland University 's History And Its New Partnership Initiatives

Defining an effectively and efficiently executing an organization strategy. Closely observing the working and monetary results against arrangements and spending plan of the firm. Prepare the staff for future key leadership role. Promote, support and reward and motivate service contribution and engagement activities of academic staff. Work with Faculty Manager and Vice President Finance to develop local financial/business plans.

Boards of Trustees at community colleges play a key role in the hiring of a new president. It is important that before the hiring process begins, the board develop a model that they would like to follow to achieve this goal. As a liaison for the board, I will ensure that the critical steps needed in order to have a successful process are accomplish. There are several components needed to create this model. The steps include, identifying the qualities that the board would like to see in a president, establishing the hiring criteria, creating a job description, recruiting measures, and the selection process.

I would like to share a few of my experiences successfully leading organizational strategic planning processes. My leadership of those strategic planning processes supported the movement of the organization in the direction that was appropriate for a changing economic environment. My ability to think strategically and develop collaborative relationships contributed greatly to my ability to successfully implement new organizational initiatives as well.

Often times, leadership and management can easily be confused although they are very different on a fundamental level. More so, leadership is a process focused on making organizational changes. Leadership directs its focus towards, “tomorrow”. Additionally, leadership is transformational, consultative, and participative. It is geared toward leading people, having followers, and is often times regarded as people-oriented. Management on the other hand is about controls and results, it focuses towards, “today”. Management is authoritative, autocratic, consultative, and democratic. Management focuses on administering work that is to be completed. Also, managers have subordinates and is task-oriented. In relation to strategic planning both leadership and management have very different jobs. Effectiveness in an organization is directly dependent on the leaders. Strategic planning is crucial when clarifying where your organization is going and what measures you may be taking to reach your goal. Leaders are the ones who assemble the strategic plans to reach the goal. Through implementing the strategic plan, leaders influence people so that they are able to do their job willingly and enthusiastically. The leaders central focus is on the principles and guidelines. They work to ensure the strategic plan encourages any change that is needed. On the other hand, management organizes and coordinates the necessary steps of the strategic plan. They bring stability to plan and help regulate any policies and procedures that may be necessary in the strategic plan process. Managements attempts to have a firm basis on the control of what might be essential for the strategic plan. A few questions I might have for the management team at Oakwood Health Services are: “What criteria will we use to

Regional – To be the most effective Provost for Capital University, I need to become familiar with Columbus and Ohio in terms of the higher education landscape, and the business and governmental environment. This would help me position Capital and its students in the best position and contribute to Capital’s visibility. Therefore, I would seek membership and participation in local and regional meetings and organizations across these

As associate provost, Dr. Morris has overseen the successful implementation of the strategic plan, including providing critical support for the Council for the Progress of Cities, the Urban Studies Institute, the Global Studies Institute, the Global Partnership for the Development of Cities, CMII, IBMS, the College of the Arts, the co-op program, the entrepreneurship program, the

For most organizations that goal is profit and financial gain. In order to achieve this goal there are steps that need to be taken. The lack of these steps often result in a chaotic atmosphere. In an effort to avoid such an atmosphere the Walton Art Center appointed Anita Scism as the President of the organization and challenged her with the responsibility of reviewing the company’s mission statement and attaining the goal of the company. There was an exercise for the company and its members that included a 2-day retreat. In order to prepare for the company event and meet the challenge that was received she needed to employ strategic planning. Strategic planning is used to explore approaches that managers and business owners can use in order to construct resilient organizations. Anita used strategic planning in order to consider different options for moving the company into the future and revamping the mission statement of her predecessor Bill Mitchell. The finances of the company had improved and she found herself in the position of having to reduce the staff for budget reasons. She showed her commitment to the company and others by doing any and every job that needed to be done despite her title or position. This was a really good way to rid the atmosphere of negativity. . A way to remove the negative thinking is the four D’s of strategic planning. The four D’s are Destiny, Design, Discovery and Dream. These are envisioned to take organizations away from negative thinking and into thoughts of strength, aptitudes and opportunities. Anita should look for tasks and games that incorporate the four D’s for the retreat and the reformulation of the mission

Today's organizations face difficult challenges in order to remain competitive the quickening pace of change, increasing uncertainty, growing ambiguity, and complexity. To meet these challenges, organizations must broaden the scope of leadership responsibility for strategic leadership and engage more people in the process of leadership. In Becoming a Strategic Leader Rich Hughes and Kate Beatty from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) offer executives and managers a handbook for implementing a strategic leadership process that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations. Based on CCL's successful developing the Strategic Leader Program, this book outlines the framework of strategic leadership and contains practical suggestions on how to develop the individual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutions to become more adaptable, flexible, and resilient. The authors also show how individual managers can exercise effective strategic leadership through their distinctive and systemic approach thinking, acting, and influencing. The author calls our attention to engage us and help us to become strategic, helping and understanding how to help others build strategic teams. The book helps us

Selecting a candidate to serve in the president position for a community college is a critical responsibility. Governing boards need to first decide on what qualifications they are looking for in a president. In order to gain an accurate list of the qualifications, it is important to obtain information from various areas and departments on campus. Faculty and staff members, students and alumni should all be included in the process of identifying what is important to their areas. A search committee will be formed which includes representatives from each of these areas.

Abstract: For this assignment we will examine how strategic management plans are established and redefine to keep the organizations moving forward in growth. Management promotes and brings about a change in the structure to keep it active and efficient in the approaches to achieving its goals and objective. The strategy behind the approaches correlation is what leads to actually implementing and providing data to analyze on an ongoing basis to enhance the strategic plan of the organization.

Strategic leadership is associated with the organization's vision, as well as with the ideas and actions that make the

The failure or success of any company/organization is relied on its power to function effectively together as a team. A strategic leader that brings and leads the team effectively towards the organization goals is very important. PepsiCo will be the focus of this essay.

The education industry is ripe for disruption. Private equity funding is surging into the education market (Bryant & Sarakatsannis, 2015). In order for a large multinational education company to both disrupt itself, and fend off disruptive technologies within the education market, the company must increase the leadership teams abilities to collaboratively plan and adjust to market changes. The company has used agile development practices for many years, and began strategic planning in an agile fashion for the technology divisions. To be able to respond to disruptive market forces, the company should embrace strategic agile planning across their traditional publishing arm as it merges with technology development (Parker, 2012). This proposal for senior leadership includes an overview of the organization with a discussion on current challenges in cross-functional strategic planning, and operational execution, given the current business and internal climate, an overview of four leadership theories which provide specific perspectives in helping senior leadership in solving cross-functional planning challenges, with a recommended action plan aligned with the organization mission, vision, ethics and globally diverse workforce.

Thru the course I have learned that Strategic Management builds on many processes and that various companies and organizations with diverse backgrounds can teach us valuable lessons. To be on the lookout for what can be considered a beneficial development in an organization or perhaps what can be a bad plan plausibly implemented at the wrong time.

Discouragement of innovations was the main concern of the critics. The financial pressure imposed on deans was forcing them to be concern about the financial aspects of their decisions rather than focusing on main mission as leaders of an academic institution. This critique could be validated because the main objective of each academic organization is encouraging and expanding the new ideas which might not be profitable in the short term. However, neglecting these ideas will threaten the university’s long term profit.