HOW TO DECIDE?

Education, Research

and Information

Services

TechnologyTechnical Services

Admin Services

B.A. Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder

Professional in Human Resources (PHR) – from Human Resources Certification Institute

Associate Director of Administrative Services

Finance

Facilities

Human Resources

Every day every person in the organization makes many decisions…

…resulting in purposeful action.

Organizing this purposeful action into a unified direction is essential for success.

Does the idea align with Mission?

YES

Support it through fiscal, space and human resources

Assessment/ Refinement

NODo not support

Evidence Based Decision Making

Flow Chart used for decision making by each person or group.

“What we try to do is establish a clear and simple set of values that we understand…We just say, ‘Southwest Airlines doesn’t do that. Maybe somebody else does, but we don’t.’ It greatly facilitates the operation of the company.”

—Herb Kelleher, CEO Southwest Airlines

Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD)

In the 1960s, Theodore Levitt (economist Harvard Business) said, “People don’t want

a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”

New Directors Lead in New Directions

• What are your

strengths? • In what ways does the

Library excel?• What are your

dreams for the

Library in the future?

• How do you see yourself

contributing to these

achievements ?

Appreciative Inquiry in a Single Slide

Appreciative Inquiry is… Problem Solving is…

Positive Possibilities.

Hub of communication and knowledgeShared Leadership

Shared Leadership, Anita Rich pictures

Enabling Communication

Deciding who to hire makes all the difference.

http://info.exactsource.com/blog

Looking for a Purple

Squirrel?

Image borrowed from:

“…77 percent of U.S. workers get paid vacation time. The workers who do receive it get an average of 13 days a year.” - CNBC

FUN FACT

Aligning values is as important as aligning skills and education

Learning Café – Tacit to Explicit

Deciding how to make decisions is important to your outcome.

North Denver Art Museum Frederic C. Hamilton Building

You mean that mechanical building in the middle of campus?

The one with no windows?

No, really look closer... There are a lot of windows.

The whole skin of the building is windows actually. Lots of windows.

Decision was made to remodel not pursue new bldg. Charette held

with three institutions, AHEC and potential investors.

Seeing possibility instead of problems aids in the decision

to pursue a remodel of our award-winning building.

The Design Charettes Begin

Improvements Begin

Studiotrope

It’s about the Experience

More improvementsBEFORE AFTER

AFTERBEFORE

Discovery Wall

Auraria Library receives $4 Million (26,225,680 SEK) from State of Colorado

HOW TO DECIDE?

• Decide Appreciatively

• Focus on the JTBD - Learning

• Measure Success

• Sharing Leadership allows knowledge and expertise to shine from anywhere.

• Create enabling knowledge sharing and communication systems

• Use evidence to adapt

• Explore and Discover

Personal Slide?

Thank You

CreditsPHOTOS:FLICKR/Denver Skyline and City Park/ designsbykari May 2, 2010

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