Unbeknownst to us in February 2020, we were about to go into a certain kind of hibernation, one forced on us by the circumstances of our time. Two years into this, we may be seeing the beginning of the light at the end of the tunnel – learning how to live with this global pandemic and bring back the kind of social connection we value and need.

Jeff Shields, CEO of the National Business Officers Association and Howard Teibel turn their attention to looking forward in anticipation of the upcoming NBOA Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago this February. The theme this year – Elevate! A call to step up our game and bring into our work what we’ve learned these past two years.

You can also join Howard at the conference in his talk with Taylor Hastrich from FAEF in an experiential session to elevate Strategic Thinking as a Business Officer.

To learn more about this conference or register for the event, visit NBOA.

Whether your challenges are financial, structural or simply the need to build strong teams, Teibel Education can help your people move to the next level of excellence. Check out how we can help you be a stronger leader and build stronger teams at teibelinc.com!

Howard Teibel

Links & Notes

• Learn More and Register for the 2022 NBOA Annual Meeting
• Schedule
• Registration
• Follow Jeff on Social Media
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

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Joining Howard Teibel today in conversation is Dr. Nathan Grawe, distinguished teaching professor of the social sciences at Carleton college, where he has served on the faculty since 1999. You might have seen Nathan's work as it relates to the framing of the enrollment cliff, something that's been exacerbated and accelerated in this last year.

As we find ourselves beginning to emerge out of lockdowns in our lives — and for many of us on our campuses — the big question is how will we navigate back to what Georgia Tech is framing as a return to better?

This conversation with Nathan covers many important topics, including his most recent analysis of enrollment trends, issues of shared governance, and how we need to think about work as we come out of this pandemic.

Reach out to us at Teibel education if we can help you build an intentional mindset and process to navigate your challenges over this next year.

About Dr. Nathan Grawe

Dr. Nathan Grawe the Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Carleton College. He is a labor economist whose work examines intergenerational connections with education and labor market outcomes. Nathan's book, Demographics and The Demand for Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) examines how recent demographic shifts are likely to affect demand for higher education. In a follow-up project, The Agile College (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), Nathan draws on interviews with higher education leaders to provide examples of how proactive institutions are grappling with demographic change.

Links & Notes

• About Dr. Nathan Grawe
• The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Challenges by Nathan D. Grawe
• Visit Nathan's Website at Carleton College

• 00:00 - Welcome to Navigating Change
• 02:28 - Introducing Dr. Nathan Grawe

As we turn our energy to 2021, we can begin to catch a glimpse of getting on the other side of this crisis. Independent school leaders have implemented innovations over the last nine months that they could only dream about prior to the pandemic. The question now is can they sustain these changes with intentionality. 

Jeff Shields, CEO of the National Business Officers Association and Howard Teibel explore these questions in anticipation of the upcoming February all-virtual NBOA Annual Meeting.  The opportunity in this year is to prepare ourselves with the right state of mind – resiliency, ambition for change and living our vision.

Join Howard at the NBOA Annual conference for a Goldmine session on Being a Leader Without Being an Expert, February 22 and for a Deep Dive session around Building a Culture that can Innovate from the Bottom Up, February 23.  

To learn more about this conference or register for the event, visit NBOA.  

Whether your challenges are financial, structural, or simply the need to build strong teams, Teibel Education can help your people move to the next level of excellence. Check out our work with Independent Schools today!

• 02:25 - Welcome Jeff Shields
• 03:44 - Introducing NBOA ... Virtually!
• 10:33 - Maintaining energy, new lessons learned
• 16:53 - NBOA Keynote Speakers
• 22:10 - How has your leadership changed?
• 26:49 - Post-COVID challenges for our field
• 29:42 - The value of the Annual Meeting

At Teibel Education we are committed to having your people be connected with a higher purpose. As we look to 2021 and the hope for greater ease and less uncertainty, we bring you a podcast on learning.

How do you produce active listening in a colleague, student, or peer? Active listening is a central tenant to the capacity to learn and acquire new skills.

In this podcast, we explore learning with UCLA professor Dr. Christopher Surro. Chris is committed to his student’s success and he teaches us how to engage others to learn by applying a few simple principles – showing care, guiding versus doing and creatively using technology.

As administrators, Deans, CFO’s, or faculty, this is an invaluable conversation to listen to and share with others. We look forward to hearing how this resonates with you.

Links & Notes

• About Chris Surro — UCLA Department of Economics

About Dr. Christopher Surro

Chris Surro is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA. He primarily teaches macro courses but has teaching interests across a variety of economic fields. His main teaching goal is to provide students with both economic knowledge and the ability to apply that knowledge in practical ways to their future careers. He also tries to incorporate new technologies into his classes to improve student learning and engagement. His research focuses on using recent computational methods to improve economic analysis.

• 02:24 - Welcome to Navigating Change
• 02:50 - A Study of Retention
• 05:49 - Why Students Prefer a Lecture Over Active Learning
• 07:35 - Integrating Technology
• 09:29 - Before COVID
• 10:58 - Upside Since March 2020
• 13:13 - Redesigning Classes at This Point
• 15:53 - Additional Time to Prep
• 18:31 - Shifting the Online Status to In-Person... Eventually
• 19:57 - Zoom Fatigue
• 21:38 - Faculty Collaboration
• 25:34 - COVID as an Opportunity to Make Positive Changes
• 33:07 - Shifts in Student Types
• 35:54 - Student Evaluations and Being Actually Good
• 43:23 - Telling Students They'll Struggle But Will Learn
• 44:31 - Learning How to Learn
• 47:15 - Last Thoughts

Mission in Action

Today on the show we bring a demonstration of living a mission. Our guest is Doug Brown, President of UMass Memorial Community Hospitals and Chief Administrative Officer for the UMass Memorial Health Care system. He had a vision for their community - looking in their own backyard and anchoring their institutional mission through local investing, local procurement, and local hiring.

As a $2.4 billion integrated health care delivery system in Central Massachusetts, Umass Memorial’s “Anchor Mission Project” is addressing the social determinants of health beyond the traditional approach of providing excellent clinical care. UMass Memorial is putting their money where their mouth is by investing part of their institutional portfolio in local resources, purchasing directly from local businesses, and hiring a greater percentage from the surrounding community.

Links & Notes

• “Anchoring Health beyond Clinical Care: UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission Project” — Harvard.edu
• Harvard School of Public Health Highlights UMass Memorial’s Anchor Journey — DemocracyCollaborative.org
• UMass community hospitals chief appointed to AHA trustees — Telegram.com
• UChicago Joins the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative — The University of Chicago Civic Engagement

This is an important conversation to listen to the whole way through. First, ask yourself: what’s the highest purpose of your organization? 

Likely you have an answer, something you’ve been told, or something you’ve absorbed through your experience over the years. But maybe the greater truth is that we need to discover our organization’s purpose with our people.  

When we move to higher purpose, we form a contract with each other that transcends normal management theory – the need for greater control.  

Dr. Robert Quinn and Howard Teibel pick up where they left off in episode 222 of the podcast and now focus on what it looks like to give up control to create something most of us only imagine – an engaged, connected and purpose-focused organization, where leaders put their egos aside and allow their people to step up. 

Links & Notes

• About Dr. Robert Quinn
• RobertQuinn.com
• Robert’s Blog
• Connect with Robert on LinkedIn
• Follow Robert on Twitter • @BobQuinnUofM
• Find Robert on Facebook
• Watch "Find Your Purpose" on Facebook

Heather Jarhling is a rising senior at Colby College in Waterville Maine. She — like her peers — is facing an unsettled future. This cohort spent the last three and a half months running to keep up with a shift to online education that many of them did not sign up for.

Of course, no one signed up for the changes sweeping education as a result of the pandemic. And the rising voices around racial injustice will be additional concerns you will need to face. We need to listen to one other — now more than ever — as our expectations, needs, and requirements shift toward the fall.

Heather and Howard explore what the transition to learning from home meant for her and what students like her are looking for in their educational experience as we face the fall term. If you’re an administrator or a faculty member and you’re looking to understand your students’ expectations leading into next year, this is a must-listen. Next year’s class is looking for a signal for change ahead and as you’ll hear in this conversation, finding the middle-ground that demonstrates they’ve been heard today will go a long way when you need to ask for their flexibility tomorrow.

We invite you to use this podcast to open or continue the conversation with others.

As we begin to pivot in our organizations from the necessary critical decisions to get through these first few months and on to living with a new way of working, how do we not fall back into business as usual? Our people are looking not only for direction and stability but a sense of connection to a larger purpose. At the heart of people feeling disconnected is the absence of a certain kind of leadership that puts one’s ego aside and empower others to genuinely connect with a deeper purpose.

Today on the show, Howard has a conversation with Dr. Robert Quinn, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and co-founder for the Center for Positive Organizations. Howard and Robert explore what it looks like to step up into an authentic way of leading – both from the heart and with conviction.

Links & Notes

• About Dr. Robert Quinn
• RobertQuinn.com
• Robert’s Blog
• Connect with Robert on LinkedIn
• Follow Robert on Twitter • @BobQuinnUofM
• Find Robert on Facebook
• Watch "Find Your Purpose" on Facebook

About Dr. Robert Quinn

Robert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. His research and writing focuses on purpose, leadership, culture and change. He is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a co-founder of the Ross Center for Positive Organizations. In terms of research, he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He has published 18 books. As a teacher, Quinn is the recipient of multiple awards. In a global survey he was recently named one of the top speakers in the world on the topic of organizational culture and related issues. His talk on personal purpose went viral and has been viewed by over 16 million people.