How to Talk to Your Leaders about Necessary Change at Your School

Student support practitioners may feel, because of their position within the organization, that they have no way to address larger organizational concerns and cannot talk to leaders about why change is necessary. This presentation focuses on the information needed to argue for change in the context of student-centered business needs, how to make an argument compelling to institutional leaders, and how to engage stakeholders as partners in change, particularly in resource-limited environments.

First Learning Outcome: Building a theory of change 

Second Learning Outcome: Changement management

Third Learning Outcome: Achieving organizational goals

Core Competency: Change Management

Proficiency: Enrollment Management Proficiencies

Presenter(s): 

Andrew Marx Tufts University