SIGUCCS 2017 Conference Takeaway – A Leadership Framework

2017 Conference, Takeaway

A Leadership Framework

Presented by: Kelly Wainwright, Lewis and Clark College

The IT management team at Lewis and Clark College (“the CIO Council”) implemented quarterly goal setting for the whole team. Every quarter, each team identifies their goals within their group including how they will measure success. While their focus is on short-term, achievable goals, they also keep an eye on how their goal setting aligns with that of the College.

Read more at: https://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=3123482&ftid=1908161&dwn=1&CFID=817600433&CFTOKEN=55723475

Takeaways:

Lewis & Clark created an “IT Communications & Culture Platforms” document that lists all recurring meetings and team-building events. This is something I’m taking back to my IT management team, and hope that we can implement something similar here! It’s a fantastic resource to have for the whole department. – Laurie Fox

I found that the alignment of the IT organization mission directly to the College’s mission was an important step in creating a strategic partnership. – Lisa Brown

 

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The Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) is an association of professionals who support and manage the diverse aspects of information technology services at higher education institutions. SIGUCCS is one of 36 special interest groups of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society. SIGUCCS focuses on issues surrounding the support, delivery, and management of those services, and provides professional development opportunities for its members and the other individuals in the field.