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Arguably the most challenging part of any change process is rallying the support of the people around you to join you on your way. In this video, Howard Teibel presents his model for approaching any population you’re trying to influence in a specific direction.

He provides a method for you as change agents to reframe your audience, refocus your efforts, and drive the support of your most valuable supporters while not being distracted by those who aren't.

The Valley of Despair

The Valley of Despair represents our natural response to change. It is that place through which we must journey in which we feel bad about what we’ve lost, and uncertain about what’s to come, and the lies we tell ourselves and others along the way.

The hardest part about leading teams through the Valley of Despair is telling the truth, setting expectations, and making sure your people understand that feeling uncomfortable is normal.

The Future of Higher Education and Leading through a Crisis Webinar

October 30, 2020

Teibel Education President Howard Teibel; Rutgers University Executive Vice President — Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Michael Gower; and University of Colorado Boulder Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Russell Moore discuss the Future of Higher Education and the roles we can play to navigate through this crisis.

COVID is a revealer of and accelerant of how we need to change as institutions. Academics, administrators, and boards need a new framework to meet these challenges as we look out over the horizon.

Webinar: The Emergence of the New Normal

April 9, 2020

Howard Teibel and Pete Wright have a conversation about Leadership, Resiliency, and Team during times of crisis.

Redesigning Higher Education: A Small New England Public University Changes Higher Education

Redesigning Higher Education: A Small New England Public University Changes Higher Education tells the story of how Plymouth State University (New Hampshire), a small New England public university, is changing the face and future of higher education for the 21st century. This is the Plymouth Experiment. The authors highlight ongoing change and transformation at Plymouth State University during challenging demographic and financial times in higher education. With many institutions merging or closing across the nation, Plymouth State University’s fifteenth president brought a vision for organizational transformation grounded in holistic integration with student-centered decision-making. The transformation began with reorganizing twenty-four academic departments and three colleges into seven Integrated Clusters of discipline-based communities. Redesigning Higher Education uses a storytelling narrative approach to provide a practical application of the radical changes meant to transform the higher education experience.

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