From SEM Conductor to Improviser: Leading with an improvisational “jazz mind-set”
The use of figurative language can facilitate organizational sense-making with respect to SEM leadership, planning, and practice. The conductor-symphony metaphor has been used to describe the role of an effective enrollment manager and those who harmoniously collaborate to execute the enrollment plan of a college, university, or school. Alternatively, this session engages an improviser-band metaphor to emphasize the utility of improvisation and a jazz mindset in times of enrollment uncertainty.
First Learning Outcome: Examining enrollment uncertainties that are inherent in enrollment trends
Second Learning Outcome: Finding patterns in complexity and interrupting/disrupting habitual patterns
Third Learning Outcome: Embracing the fallacy of “imagined” futures to stimulate scenario and contingency planning
Core Competency: Leadership and Management
Proficiency: Enrollment Management Proficiencies
Presenter(s):
Monique Snowden University of Colorado Denver
From SEM Conductor to Improviser: Leading with an improvisational “jazz mind-set”
Category
Breakout Session
Description
Intended Audience: Some Experience in the Profession
Submission ID: 23647
Room: Crest 3: 3/28/2023, 09:00 AM - 10:15 AM