2. Friday: Lunch Topics… Exploring your campus climate Creating a supportive environment for your plan Building momentum for your plan

3. Path to Strategic Action Your inventory/ pre-work Your action narrative and plan Your mentored coaching and feedback plan Your Monday morning…and beyond

4. Friday: Purpose Action Plan Prompts… What is the main purpose or objective of the Action Plan – What do you seek to accomplish as a leader of engagement when you return to your institution? Why is this important to your unit/institution now? What does it build on or support (other strategic objectives)? That is, how will an action plan on this particular focus fit with or inform broader efforts to advance community engagement on your campus? Who will be key allies? Are there policies or planning issues that must be addressed? What individual and institutional capacities do you have, what capacity building is needed, how might that development occur?

5. Partnerships Action Plan Prompts… Who are the primary external partners essential to the AP objective? What roles must they play in support of the Purpose? What barriers and/or opportunities do you foresee for partnership involvement? What will you do to ensure the partnership processes are reciprocal? How do or can the community partnerships align with your University strategic initiative? What internal partnerships are needed?

10. Outcomes Discussion Page 1 Strategy Goal Statement—prepare to share in AM

11. Saturday: Lunch Topics What approaches are working in monitoring and measuring at your campus? What are the best ways to seek input and feedback, as well as evaluation and impact information from partners? What approaches are working in creating resources for your engagement initiatives? How to think like a journalist in telling your story?

12. Saturday: Monitoring and Measuring and Resourcing Action Plan Prompts… How are you ensuring that your leadership and change strategies connect the Action Plan purpose to what you have learned about monitoring, measurement and accountability systems, and resource development and fund raising? How can you best resource your AP? Using the bell-shaped curve construct as analysis, what change strategies will you use to manage resistance and promote change and with whom? What do you need to do operationally to prepare for Monday morning and beyond. Prepare to present your Action Plan to Critical Friends (copies) and prepare to be a Critical Friend

13. “Critical Friends” Action Plan Feedback Tool Time: 30 minutes per team 1.Proposal Presentation (8 minutes) The listening team reads or hears about the presenting team’s proposal. No interruptions or questions are allowed, just listening and note taking by the listening team. The presenter(s) may ask for specific feedback (framed feedback) or may leave it open (unframed feedback). 2.Clarifying Questions (5 minutes) The listening members may ask clarifying questions, but no discussion is allowed. 3.Feedback (15 minutes) The listening team discusses the proposal together and with the presenter(s). Feedback is directly related to the kinds of feedback the presenter(s) wanted. 4.Reflection (2 minutes) The presenter(s) responds to the feedback given by the listening team. Responses should be about changes that might be made, new insights, and clarifications. This response is not an opportunity to defend the work.

14. Monday, Monday… How do you think your president/chancellor will respond to your action plan? Monday morning you are at a meeting…What is your opening statement…your opening gambit about the intention of your action plan?

15. Leading Engagement Beyond the Academy Our Monday AM opening gambit is…. A major take-away from the CUMU EA is…

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