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Navigating Change: The Podcast from Teibel Education
123: Reflections on volunteer leadership, engagement & becoming an instrument of inspiration
We’re back and settled into our post-EACUBO rhythm, so this week we thought we’d take a few minutes to reflect on lessons learned, lessons (hopefully!) taught, and leave you with some insights on the value of volunteer leadership. The big question: How do we engage the people we’re calling on as volunteers to marshal their energy, enthusiasm, and trust to get them to help us move our institutions forward? From boards to academic teams, this challenge cuts across leadership and calls on us to be at our most clear and creative.
122: Live from EACUBO 2015 — Gregg Goldman and Dave Button on Common Interests, Common Challenges of CBOs
This week on Navigating Change we're once again recording live from the Cheers Lounge at the EACUBO Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Howard Teibel hosts a conversation this week with two esteemed guests: Gregg Goldman, SVP and CFO at The University of Arizona and Chair of NACUBO, and Dave Button, CBO at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan and past president of CAUBO. Each brings a unique perspective on the state of CBO readiness for complexity in the coming year, and they uncover a series of fascinating parallels in the state of higher education between the US and Canada.
121: Live from EACUBO 2015—The Regional Presidents Gather!
This week on Navigating Change we’re recording live from the Cheers Lounge at the EACUBO Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Howard Teibel has gathered the regional presidents for a conversation on the state of higher ed after a day of learning in sessions.
120: Yes, you can own your own Disruptive Innovation
Today on the show, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright talk about the role of disruption, and the power of leading from a position that embraces it as part of the engine of change.
119: EACUBO’s Lynne Schaefer on Strategic Conversations and Leading Change at the 2015 Annual Meeting
Incoming EACUBO chair Lynne Schaefer joins us to share her insights into "Facilitating Strategic Conversations" as we prepare for EACUBO 2015 in Philadelphia.
118: Building the Organization you Want with NACUBO's Sue Menditto at the 2015 Planning and Budgeting Forum
On September 28th the NACUBO 2015 Planning and Budgeting Forum kicks off in Austin, Texas and today Sue Menditto — NAUCBO’s director of accounting policy — joins us to help us gear up for the conference with a discussion about crafting the organization you really want.
116: The Five Unbelievable Things You Don't Know are Broken in your Leadership Teams!
Hard skills and soft skills. We’ve certainly discussed them before. Your organization is likely full of competent leaders, managers, and team members well qualified to perform their functions, expert finance leaders, marketing and enrollment specialists, academic leaders, and beyond. This week, Gail Gregory and Howard Teibel share their insights into the challenges they’re seeing across institutions.
114: Helping Leaders Transform to Guides at AGB
This week on the show, Howard Teibel shares his experience leading a small portion of the AGB Conclave, and offers insight into the challenges and opportunities ahead of us as we work together toward a strengthening higher education environment.
113: Presumptions, Assumptions, and New Realities: The NACUBO Economic Models Project
Thanks to research led by Senior Fellow of Finance and Campus Management Bob Shea, NACUBO is taking the lead in creating a definitive set of factors and a common language around the way institutions exist in the economic landscape. This week on the show, Shea joins Rutgers CBO Mike Gower and Howard Teibel to share how this project and it’s targeted outcomes will impact institutions in their drive toward sustainability and growth.
112: The Challenges of Implementation with Unimarket’s Brian Sweeney
Joining us on the show this week, special guest Brian Sweeney, head of US Operations for Unimarket. Brian offers unique experience in software project implementation in higher education and shares his insights into the cultural change that comes with technological innovation across campuses.
111: Mergers & Aspirations with Rutgers CBO Mike Gower from NACUBO 2015
Being in the middle of a major school merger, Mike Gower knows the importance of clear and concise strategic plan. As SVP for finance and treasurer at Rutgers, Mike has an active role in leading change as these institutions come together, aligning resources and data in service of delivering top tier education for their students.
110: The Mentorship Mindset and Leveraging Hidden Resources with Nuno Couto
Nuno Couto lives and works from his RV. In his work as a consultant and project manager in higher education, his ultra-mobile command center has become a central component to leading change through his firm, Optimal Partners.
109: The Attitude/Behavior Connection at the 2015 Administrative Management Institute
If you're a line manager, you might live in a world in which you believe that “decisions” are made above your pay grade. This week on the show, we dispel that myth and share how your behavior in the decision making process can affect the attitude of your team, your peers, and your leaders across the institution.
108: Choose YOU — The Importance of Vacations & Downtime in Delivering Great Work
It’s a show of a different color this week as we take on a debilitating challenge faced by so many of our colleagues: we are terrible at disconnecting, recharging, and prioritizing ourselves over our work. The idea for this show started as a chance to talk about how we’re pledging to take smarter vacations, but it doesn’t take long before we veer into culture and the demands of communication, technology, and stress.
107: Be a Better Presenter with Gail Gregory
If you’re taking the stage as a presenter at the NACUBO 2015 Annual Meeting, you’re (hopefully!) well into preparing your presentation, rehearsing your slides, ensuring your jokes are funny, and timing what are sure to be copious applause breaks! But it’s never too late to learn from the greats, so this week on the show, Gail Gregory and Pete Wright are talking presentations, and offering insights that can help you turn your speech into a memorable NACUBO event!
106: Creativity at a Crossroads: the CAO/CBO Partnership at University of Colorado
Faced with declines in state funding leading the nation, University of Colorado has been forced to develop innovative solutions that allow the institution to maintain its position as a leading research institution, while maintaining affordability for its students. Doing so has required a best in class partnership between Senior Vice Chancellor and CFO, Kelly Fox, and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Russell Moore.
105: The Hardest Conversations—Ongoing Lessons from Sweet Briar College
This week on the show, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright reflect on Sweet Briar, and the questions and challenges that arise from their move to close after this academic year.
104: Shared Services as a Tool for Change
This week on Navigating Change, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright offer insights and experience in moving toward a shared services model from the administrative and faculty perspectives. It’s a conversation on the wide ranging implications of shared services from better hiring, greater cost management, and building strength in capturing and using data more efficiently.
103: Empowering Teams to Take Initiative
How do you lead from behind and mentor others to step forward? This week, Howard Teibel and Andrew Menke discuss strategies behind empowering teams to take initiative.
102: The Need for Authentic Collaboration
This week on the show, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright offer suggestions and observations to help institutions break down barriers and move toward significant and authentic shared governance across the institution.
