Description

This workshop will explore what work looks like a post COVID-19 environment.  Specifically, leaders across all types of higher education institutions are leading teams in many different ways with teams in multiple locations.   In an engagement-driven workshop, participants will learn about leading and managing teams in remote and hybrid ways, including reflecting on their own leadership practices and how they can strengthen connection, community, and mission accomplishment in support of their institution’s strategic goals.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Explore fundamentals to establish and lead a remote/hybrid team more effectively.
• Recognize the unique challenges faced by remote/virtual or blended teams.
• Support and engage team member whether remote/hybrid
• Identify the specific skills required for managing remote/hybrid teams
• Recognize potential bias and opportunities to mitigate while leading remote/hybrid teams

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This highly interactive workshop will focus on basic higher education budgeting concepts, budget development and management, and its connection to an organization’s mission and goals. Through budgeting process case studies presented at the workshop, participants will be provided with practical tools and strategies to apply to their day-to-day work.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Explore the concepts and components of a higher education budget process
• Create a budget for a sample program or department
• Review tools and techniques for on-going budget management
• Propose and evaluate budget options through workshop case studies
• Recognize connections between the budgeting process and institutional mission and goals.

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Get beyond the basics of accounting and reporting and expand your knowledge and effectiveness as a leader in higher education accounting and reporting. This workshop offers the attendee a solid review of the theoretical framework of higher education accounting and reporting. Operational, investing, and financing activities of the institution are reviewed – along with the impact of these activities on the financial statements. Additional information on analyzing and interpreting financial statements will be provided, along with excellent networking opportunities with fellow colleagues throughout the WACUBO region.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Discuss the purpose of fund accounting systems and its relevance in today’s reporting formats
• Explain differences among operating and non-operating activities
• Analyze recognition issues pertaining to revenue and expenses
• Recognize relevant laws and account standard that govern endowments, gifts, and restrictions
• Identify differences between financing capital and operating activities
• Identify the basic financial statements and information included in financial reports

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This workshop has been designed to help business managers understand the negotiation process while learning strategies for analysis, developing decision-making processes, and defining methods for negotiations.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Practice business interactions that involve negotiation and apply the many negotiation styles and strategies available to you to improve business relationship and outcomes
• Develop and practice techniques and skills to enhance your understanding of potential negotiated outcomes including ability to chart decision points, alternate solutions, and exit strategies  
• Improve outcomes in a shared governance model like higher education with your understanding of positions, strength/weakness, and win/ win tactics
• Apply elements of agreement, contract, and implementation  
• Build a network of colleagues who have similar roles and responsibilities and who face many of the same challenges and opportunities

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Diversifying upper management at institutions of higher education is often stated as a goal of strategic plans but remains a challenge and unfulfilled promise. In a novel partnership between the Office of Diversity and Outreach and Human Resources, UCSF has developed a program that requires that all upper management recruitments (including those at the Chancellor cabinet’s level), to follow a standard process of hiring. Grounded in a firm understanding of current labor data and adjusting to business needs, the program includes a number of set requirements for the search committee including:

(1) use of an Equity Advisor who serves as a steward during the recruitment process;
(2) ensuring a diverse search committee by gender, race and LGBT status;
(3) training on unconscious bias during the recruitment process and
(4) use and understanding of Affirmative Action Plan data in regard to labor composition within the recruitment area.

A look at initial data from the program shows the positive impact that standard practices have on equity goals.  

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

•  Describe the background and history of the UCSF Anti Racism Initiative and how this approach could be applied at your institution
• Apply the strategy and business case to set up a program that standardizes recruitment practices across the institution
• Identify main elements in the partnership between Office of Diversity and Human Resources to diversify upper management at UCSF
• Examining the question of “How is Racism operating here?” to understand the challenges that participants face to this institutionalize this work in their home institutions 

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Colleges and Universities have complex organizational structures which function and operate very similar to private industry.  Strategies at institutions of higher education have a different focus and are designed around specific outcomes.  This workshop is designed for new higher education employees and provides a basic understanding of the higher education business enterprise, associated concepts, business processes and some authoritative guidance.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will:

• Apply information learned about the history and evolution of higher education to develop new focuses and designs around specific outcomes.
• Identify our stakeholders, governance structures and key business processes
• Discuss factors that influence fiscal processes

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