Provide information about the places (examples) we visit
so we can think about the situation and what questions we have. -- Dan Wheeler
Great job!
More examples of collective leadership in action. -- Annie
King, UC Davis
States of Washington and Idaho will need to arrive the
night before the meetings for Raleigh and Pennsylvania (and possibly the extra night at
the end if we don't adjourn until 3 or 4 p.m. for the three people who are staying late
for the meetings afterwards.) West Coast meeting can be same day travel probably.
Suggestion for future workshops: This may seem a minor
point, but it was significant for me. Loved the dining arrangement where the expectation
was that tables were filled one after the other. This prevented the tendency for project
groups to segregate (notable exception was the arrogant attitudes of the Californians),
and reduced the anxiety of the introvert in having to "find" someone to dine
with. The best benefit, of course, was that I had wonderful conversations with many
participants.
Workshop IV. Please don't plan any formal activity for the
late afternoon of the first day. People tend to be tired.
Have the groups keep journals of process of various
institutional arrangements: Single institution, Consortium, Systems, Multi-institutional.
These journals would be valuable documentation for future implementation.
Have information about exemplars in advance. E.g., it
would have been helpful to have had information bout Maricopa in advance.
More content, less process in future workshops. Take
advantage of being in different parts of the country and introduce a cultural perspective.
E.g., impact of Hispanic immigration on higher education.
I very much appreciate the way Kellogg takes care of us.
However, if we are going to meet in a resort setting, please facilitate (not pay for)
resort-like activities. You could help individuals make arrangements for pre-post workshop
activities. I would have appreciated to be able to come in the night before (at my own
expense) so that I might have been able to play golf before the workshop began. I
understand the need to be fully engaged. We could have done what we did here at a Holiday
Inn for much less $.
Meeting with first-time participants at beginning. More
structures time with learning partner, i.e., lunch, dinner. Helps to focus - staying with
team tends to revert to local issues. Take into consideration travel time for west
coasters, i.e., difficult to attend first day before 5-6 p.m. (3-hour time zone change).
Must know before coming: Kellogg's objectives and LINC
objectives. Be sure to get participants to read Web site.
Thanks for (mostly) positive/upbeat pace. Art component
good when linked with leadership, change and learning (not automatically good). Nice to
have informal opportunities to meet and listen to each other. Expensive resorts not
necessary. Thanks for attention to schedule and for flexibility.
Time-zone consideration: 2 p.m. Monday to noon Wednesday.
Good for western meetings. Perhaps for meeting in East, to deal with time zone, beginning
at 4 p.m. or 6 p.m. and leave Wednesday at 2 p.m. or 4 p.m.
The workshop provided clarity on the mission of this
project. I truly appreciated the substantive discussion (particularly with MAC).
Assign reading (ahead of time) from a variety of
leadership gurus (Nanus, Drucker, etc.) to frame some of the dissuasion at workshop 4.
Don't start the day's events before 9 a.m. an always stop
by 5 p.m.
The agenda was really good this time, focusing on the
team. Next time, do the same thing, but stage the activities around concrete models. I
know we run risks this way: off-the-self transformations and all. But there must be
something for us to sink our teeth into.
Next time use drama to act out the core principles of
various leadership models.
