You ll have the information needed to set an agenda for action that has the buy-in of your administrative team. You ll have taken important steps toward building a cohesive senior administrative team. You ll have a strategy for involving additional staff in a planning process. You ll have the opportunity to demonstrate leadership in the eyes of new colleagues. There is no magic, except the magic of good communication.
Good communication is an absolutely essential foundation for successful leadership.
What I ve been able to do is develop a method of engaging new directors and their key staff in a guided discovery, both intense and controlled, that allows them to learn a great deal about their organization in a short period of time about shared values, about values not shared, about dreams realized and frustrations borne of the inability to achieve goals in the past. I look forward to speaking with you. You can contact me through Dougherty and Associates or send an inquiry online . Since his retirement from the University of Michigan, where he served as director of University Libraries and professor of in the School of Information, Dick Dougherty has worked with a variety of clients to help them develop preferred futures and strategic approaches to planning. His principal objective is to help clients meet the challenge of managing discontinuous change.