Learn how you can better align your student affairs department’s mission, vision, and priorities with your institution’s overall strategic plan. This webcast will show you how to update the way your department works to advance the goals of your institution as a whole. We will focus on analyzing your: Current operations Positions Organizational structure Budget Workflow and tools
Improve your professional development strategy to better retain gift officers. Agenda Understanding Your Team and Varying Needs Auditing Existing Professional Development Understanding current issues Resource audit In-House Professional Development Models Solutions to enhance retention Tried and true methods Best new practices in retention efforts Sample progression plans Various institutional models Establishing Effective Coaching and Mentoring Programs
Are you effectively prioritizing the donors in your portfolio? Agenda Portfolio Maintenance Establishing your routine Adding assessments and metric strategies to your routine Prioritizing prospects and donors Moving a donor up Pushing a prospect back Knowing when to drop someone from your portfolio
Learn how you can update your career services reporting strategy with existing resources. You will be provided ideas and resources to help ensure that you are collecting the right data to better analyze your office’s performance. Obtain tips for how to better identify, track, and analyze metrics in order to: Harness the power of analytics in the career center Increase student engagement Develop tailored programming Advocate for resources tied to outcomes Make data-informed decisions
Learn how you can improve your advising model to include coaching conversations that go beyond basic course selection. Highlighting Florida Atlantic University, we will show how they created another “level” of advisors who serve as academic success coaches for their at-risk students. We will discuss how to identify and prioritize specific student populations for coaching and how to maximize campus partnerships to increase the odds of success for at-risk students. You will leave this training better equipped to update your advising model to include elements of academic success coaching.
While many advisors are working to implement the Appreciative Advising® model on campus, the Dream and Design phases often fall short. Though it may be difficult to easily measure outcomes within the Dream phase, it directly informs the Design phase of the model. Learn how to facilitate the Dream phase of Appreciative Advising to better solidify your students’ aspirations and use the Design phase to outline a plan that will help achieve them.
Be more strategic with evaluating each of your events. Agenda Understanding Successful Events Unique identifiers of advancement event success Attendee mix Location Follow-up Concrete ROI evaluation for events Surveying and Data Collection Collecting data before, during, and after the event Leveraging event evaluations to develop unique, meaningful events How to Evaluate and Eliminate a Failing Event Focusing on mission-centric events Engaging event volunteers in other opportunities
Learn to use an intentional branding effort to effectively communicate the creative and effective work of your career services office. During this training you will hear how the University of Miami’s Toppel Career Center successfully branded themselves and will take away five strategies for developing and articulating your own brand. Through effective branding, you can increase your office’s visibility, relevance, and even resources.
Learn how to better engage, track, and motivate your young alumni volunteers. Agenda Improving 4 Key Aspects of Volunteer Management TRACKING: Measuring progress and behaviors MOTIVATION: Using data and engagement opportunities ALIGNMENT: Providing growth and other outreach opportunities RECOGNITION: Using events, impact reports, and awards
Learn key considerations for leasing space rather than building to increase the size of your campus. Agenda Throughout this training we will focus on answering questions, including: Why would an institution decide to lease space vs. build? What components do institutions need to have in place before they engage a design firm? What does the process look like if you are working with a design firm? How do you find viable properties to lease? Who are the appropriate internal and external stakeholders to have involved in this process? What is the timeline for a leasing project?
