News from Management Forum on May 25

We had a full day Management Forum session on May 25. The focus of this session was related to the current budget situation and what we can do to thrive and grow in this environment.

One of the presentations in the morning discussed the following four areas and used the analogy of each one being located in a swimming lane, where they all progress simultaneously. This provides some context as we plan for the next few years.

• Programming (General Program Assessment (GPA), DL Strategy . . .)
  
• Partnerships ( and external relationships)
  
• People (succession, recruitment . . .)
  
• Processes (challenge, change, look for efficiencies)
  

Few other quotes from my notes . . .

• Will what made us successful yesterday make us successful tomorrow?
• We need to be agile and nimble - ready to respond
  
• The collective intelligence is greater than the individual
• Play the same game better
• Redesign and make it easier to do business with
• Transform and change the rules
• Make money
• Develop sustainable practices and programs
• Scrutinize programming (by leveraging core strengths / leveraging and expanding our career-based programming)
  
• Look for efficiencies
  

So what are the implications for us in EET? This is the main question I left this session with, and this led to our EET "start, change, stop" activity at our EET meeting. How do we continue to thrive in a very tight budget situation?