ACHPER conference 15 August: Leading a department

The table below is a record of a collaborative discussion on the challenges HPE leaders face in their jobs. Thank you to the group for contributing ideas and discussion around these important issues. It would be interesting to see what any readers think through comments to this post.

Challenge	Potential Solutions	Barriers	Facilitators
Resistant staff - T&L change	provide a solution with the problem (constructive insubordination)	staff allocation
Contributing to faculty goals		buy in time to meet	starting with some evidence or policy, then working with group to specify it to your workgroup lobby admin for strategic time. Think offline options. Google docs, OneNote
Collaboration		open contribution never ends	filtering policy into faculty relevant specific timelines
Working with staff	Strengths based approach (how they contribute)	perceptions?(who told you?)
Leadership approach			Know when to stop and recognise successes. Acknowledging success will have greater results than acknowledging weakness
Professional vs. personal (feedback on performance)	you acknowledge the strengths, ask them to acknowledge their opportunities for improvement Think of a continuum, always room for improvement	Performance feedback	setting scene appointments set as "their time" not as a report from a supervisor
Time	limiting tasks per day prioritising delegating (role based, team meetings)	work life balance concept	need a buy in, they need to see the same purpose / vision seeing can't instead of don't want to master job list vs. most important tasks
Preparation	upcoming unit materials shared and partner checked before the start of the unit (not HOD check)
Inbox zero	fit emails onto one screen		allocated times for emails
Self rewarding	don't focus on the rest of the list, give yourself some sort of reward think of term timelines in this also, use your holidays as holidays		Rewards available and accessed