Geri and academic leaders
Whilst engagement is not new, a range of inter-related factors are elevating its importance to many academic leaders. Geri’s 3Ds approach (demystify, diagnose, develop) helps leaders and teams:
Shape priorities - realise a strategic approach to engagement
Getting your team focused, excited and engaged
Strategic analysis of engagement
Engagement-related opportunities and priorities
Divisional strategies
Major investments
Research priorities
Funding and support.
Manage work - embed engagement into academic / research performance and culture
Engagement capability assessment
Engagement-related leadership / staff development, recruitment and succession planning
Goal setting and performance management
Pipeline management
Engagement management, including major opportunity pursuit.
Evaluate success - improve the assessment of engagement
Evaluation frameworks
Setting targets, goals and key performance indicators that involve and excite the whole team
End user / research outcome and impact metrics
University / academic division metrics.
Linking your team’s success to the whole university.
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Insight - Leadership retreats and major investments
Geri has been used to inform a number of leadership retreats and change management programs for major engagement-related investment (e.g. new precincts). For instance, running sessions using the Geri framework for visiting professors from international institutions, for academic leaders in science and engineering faculties, in medicine and the humanities, for university institutes, related professional bodies and in small group sessions for academic leaders.
“We got Gary to run a workshop on industry engagement for science academic research leaders at our ACDS National Research Forum. He prepared well and spent time with us to get a better feel for the issues and for his audience. He was enthusiastic and energetic, both before and on the day, and did a great job generating a stimulating discussion among a challenging group of academics. He read the room well, was responsive to ideas, and got us further along the road we needed to go.”