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Students First Implementation Planning Team Report Logo Chapter Six
Implementation Roles

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This chapter describes the new Lane team environment and the roles of individuals who will be involved in carrying out the implementation plans outlined in Chapter Five. An implementation team as well as coaches, sponsors, and advisors will be key players in ensuring that the recommendations are successfully implemented within the prescribed timeframes. A discussion of the Services to Students Team that incorporates the new team-based organizational structure is also included.

The following illustration represents the various roles in the implementation effort.

Implementation Effort Roles Graphic

Implementation Team - A New Lane Model

An implementation team will have primary responsibility for coordinating implementation directly with identified services to students units and providing assistance from specific support areas. The implementation team will be made up of coordinators who represent all aspects of the college. This team is responsible for ensuring the transition of services to students from a stovepipe hierarchical organizational structure to a cross-functional team-based structure. The implementation team will serve as a model of how individuals representing different organizational units and levels of authority can work together toward a common goal - the successful and timely implementation of the Students First! recommendations.

The implementation team will meet on a regular basis to:

  • monitor the progress of individual implementation efforts
  • lead, coordinate, and facilitate required tasks
  • identify support requirements and facilitate their deployment
  • discuss issues of mutual or individual concern and develop solutions for action (continued)
  • develop strategies for removing barriers and securing resources in collaboration with sponsors, coaches and advisors
  • keep affected departments and staff informed
  • develop communications for the Lane community to:
    • communicate progress
    • celebrate successes
    • address questions and concerns
  • produce progress reports for senior executives.

    The team's performance will be measured by its ability to implement the recommendations within the established timeframes. The team will be mutually accountable and accountable to the project managers, Executive Leadership Team, and Board.

    Implementation Coordinators

    The Implementation Team will consist of implementation coordinators who will serve two roles:

  • work directly with identified services to students units representing infrastructure, financial transactions, and enrollment and retention
  • ensure support areas are providing critical services to the implementation effort.

    On the following page is an outline of the skills, characteristics, and responsibilities of the implementation coordinators who will work directly with the identified units within the categories defined in Chapter Three - infrastructure, financial transactions, and enrollment and retention.


    CHARACTERISTICS

  • Process thinker
  • Able to keep focus on project goals
  • Innovative thinker - creative
  • Willing to take risks, challenge and question
  • Takes initiative
  • Flexible, open, and honest
  • Makes decisions based on facts and data versus
    individual bias
  • Team orientation
  • Possesses functional/technical knowledge about
    services to students
  • Sense of humor
  • Willing to learn/inquire
  • Respected, credible on campus
  • Familiar with non-student services related services
    (e.g., College Finance, Instruction)
  • SKILLS

  • Thorough understanding of process
    redesign methodology and principles
  • Computer literate
  • Communication
    written
    interpersonal - able to constructively disagree
    oral
  • Group process including:
    collaboration
    team building
    meeting management
    conflict resolution
    mediation
  • Organizational
  • Time management
  • Coaching
  • Team facilitation
  • Problem solving… Mediation
  • RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Advocate for Students First!
    Process Redesign
  • Coordinate implementation activities
    and tasks
  • Monitor progress of implementation
    activities
  • Assist with development of
    communications to departments and
    Lane community
  • Serve as facilitators in the establishment
    of teams, as deemed appropriate
  • Assist with training teams
  • Provide consultation for other redesign
    projects

  • Implementation coordinators who will ensure that support areas are providing critical service to the implementation effort are responsible for the areas noted and have been identified as follows:

  • Alen Bahret, Sandy Cutler, Dennis Gilbert, and Lloyd Rain - Labor Contracts and Working Agreements
    • represent individuals in their respective employee group
    • work with the college in revising collective bargaining contracts
  • Nick Cheshire - Technology
    • coordinate Students First! technology resource needs (including programming, software and hardware)
  • Sue Colvin - Human Resources
    • develop job descriptions, negotiate wages, and establish team member selection criteria and procedures in collaboration with applicable employee groups
    • represent the college in changing collective bargaining agreements
  • Paul Colvin - Facilities
    • ensure coordination of redesign recommendations with bond facilities process and other facility needs
  • Diane Dann - Communication
    • develop college standards for communication content, style and design
    • ensure that communications developed by the Implementation Team are delivered to the Lane community in a timely and understandable manner
  • Patti Lake - Training
    • attain training resources to meet needs identified in the recommendations
    • establish delivery system for meeting training needs
  • Craig Taylor - Measurement
    • establish the baseline measures identified by the Redesign Team
    • assist with establishment of baseline and future process measures

    Additional individuals who will work directly with identified units representing infrastructure, financial transactions, and enrollment and retention will be determined by the project management in consultation with the Students First! Redesign and Implementation Planning Teams.

    Coaches, Sponsors, and Advisors

    During both the redesign and implementation planning stages, various individuals were consulted for their expertise and solicited for advice, feedback and support. The implementation stage will require the involvement and active participation of all services to students employees, coaches from the Redesign and Implementation Planning Teams, advisors, and sponsors. Implementation coordinators will be working with those individuals as well as senior executives to ensure that tasks related to redesign are completed on schedule, resistance to change is addressed, and resources are allocated in a fair and sufficient manner.

    The roles of coaches, sponsors, and advisors were mentioned in the Redesign Team's final report and are restated below.

    Coaches

    Individuals from the Students First! Redesign Team and Implementation Planning Team available to provide perspective, insight and time during implementation; and who will serve as an advocate for the recommendation, helping the college understand its implications, why it is needed, and how it will improve services to students.

    Sponsors

    Individuals from the Executive Leadership Team responsible for ensuring implementation of the recommendation by removing barriers and securing resources; and who will serve as an advocate for the recommendation, helping the college understand its implications, why it is needed, and how it will improve services to students.

    Advisors

    Individuals who play key roles in student services, instruction, personnel, college finance, communications, and other areas who provide their perspective on the implications and feasibility of the recommendations; and who will serve as an advocate for the recommendation, helping the college understand its implications, why it is needed, and how it will improve services to students.

    Services to Students Team

    Currently, Lane has a student services division that includes several services to students units. The Students First! process redesign initiative represents a reconfiguration of all services to students. All individuals within the services to students units identified in the Students First! recommendations will be involved with implementation. The Services to Students Team, composed of process owner managers, team leader managers, and teams is the basis of the new services to students delivery system. Before identifying individuals for each role, Lane must carefully develop job descriptions, address wage and collective bargaining issues, and create fair and equitable selection criteria.

    Process Owner Managers and Team Leader Managers

    Process owner managers and team leader managers are key players in spearheading the successful implementation of both the recommendations and a team-based organization. The skills, characteristics, and responsibilities of process owner managers and team leader managers are outlined in Appendix D.

    Great care is applicable to the selection of process owner managers and team leader managers. These individuals will be responsible for planning the work of and leading the teams that will be delivering services to students. Considerable time will be required to carefully establish the job descriptions/classifications, work with employee groups, and create the team selection criteria and process. In the interim, the implementation team will serve as facilitators in the establishment of teams as deemed appropriate. As implementation progresses and teams are established, implementation coordinators will be working with those teams to monitor their progress.

    Teams

    Individual team member responsibilities will be determined by the applicable process owner manager, team leader manager, and team members in collaboration with the appropriate implementation coordinator. In some cases, teams will be created before process owner managers and team leader managers are selected.

    Teams will specify performance goals that are directly related to their charge. Refer to Appendix E for the elements of the evaluation process and criteria outlined in the Redesign Team's final report.

    On the next five pages is a summary of the following identified in the action plans:

  • individuals who will serve as coaches, sponsors, and advisors
  • process owner managers, team leader managers and teams with responsibility for implementing the recommendation

    INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS
    Based on Revised Action Plans

    Recommendation COACH SPONSOR ADVISORS TEAM
    Services to Students Organization Alen Bahret
    Mary Glenn
    Edna Grass
    Bee McRae
    Linda DeWitt
    Kay Malmberg
    Carol Lynn Morse
    Sharon Williams
    Linda Fossen
    Marie Matsen
    Larry Warford
    Sue Colvin
    Patti Lake
    Linda Waddell
    Affirmative Action Director
    Applicable Classification Teams
    Applicable Employee Groups
    Facilities Planner
    Implementation Team
    Joint Review Committee
    Redesign Project Management
    Services to Students Process Owner Managers
    Service to Students Team Leader Managers
    Students First! Center Mobile Resource Representatives
    Teams comprising Services to Students Team
    Information Dissemination - All Medium Rich Freund
    Jana Nelson
    Jane Scheidecker
    Diane Dann
    Linda Fossen
    Marie Matsen
    Implementation Coordinator
    Redesign Team Project Management
    pilot Information Planning Team
    pilot Information Support Team
    Cable Channel 12 Mary Glenn
    Bee McRae
    Jana Nelson
    Jane Scheidecker
    Mary Spilde
    Larry Warford
    Cynde Leathers
    Campus Services
    Electronic Services
    Media Technology
     
    Printed Materials Rich Freund
    Jana Nelson
    Johanna Hanley
    Diane Dann
    Linda Fossen
    Selected Services to Students Units pilot Information Planning Team
    pilot Information Support Team
    Student Database Linking Jana Nelson
    Ray Smith
    Marie Matsen Nick Cheshire
    Implementation Coordinator
    Applicable Departments
    Computer Services
    Programming Team
     

    Recommendation COACH SPONSOR ADVISORS TEAM
    Telephone Bee McRae
    Jana Nelson
    Marie Matsen Virginia Brady
    Jerry Nehring
    Implementation Coordinator
    Campus Services
    Computer Services
    Programming Team
    Telephone Technicians
    pilot Information Support Team
    Wide Area Network (WAN) Johanna Hanley
    Jana Nelson
    Ray Smith
    Marie Matsen Applicable Services to Students Units
    Implementation Coordinator
    Programming Team
    Information Planning Team
    Information Support Team
    Admission Application and Processing Mary Glenn
    Bee McRae
    Sharon Williams
    Linda Fossen Larry Warford Nick Cheshire
    Debra Lamb
    Leslie Rasor
    Craig Taylor
    Sharon Williams
    Departments with separate admissions applications
    Programming Team
    Information Support Team
    New Student Information Sessions Bee McRae
    Carol Lynn Morse
    Linda Fossen
    Larry Warford
    Diane Dann
    Debra Lamb
    Cynde Leathers
    Julia Poole
    Leslie Rasor
    Craig Taylor
    John Winquist
    Ginger Yamamoto
    Applicable department staff
    Information Support Team
    Students First! Center Associates
     

    Recommendation COACH SPONSOR ADVISORS TEAM
    Placement Testing Services Carol Lynn Morse
    Jana Nelson
    Linda Fossen
    Mary Spilde
    Larry Warford
    Mason Davis
    Linda DeWitt
    Rich Freund
    Phyllis Geyer
    Dan Hodges
    Carolyn Litty
    Craig Taylor
    Ginger Yamamoto
    Affected Departments
    Counseling Department staff
    Advising and Counseling Services (ACS) Team
    Placement Testing Services Team
    College-Wide Advising System Rich Freund
    Carol Lynn Morse
    Sharon Williams
    John Winquist
    Linda Fossen
    Mary Spilde
    Larry Warford
    Tim Blood
    Mason Davis
    Phyllis Geyer
    Julia Poole
    Craig Taylor
    Ginger Yamamoto
    Annual Advising Committee
    Counseling Department staff
    pilot Advising Teams
    pilot Training Teams
    Career & Work Information Center (CWIC) Edna Grass
    Carol Lynn Morse
    Linda Fossen
    Larry Warford
    Joan Adams
    Geri Meyers
    Tamara Pinkas
    Ellen Lacey
    Implementation Coordinator
    Programming Team
    ACS Team
    CWIC Team
    Information Support Team
    Students First! Center Team

    Recommendation COACH SPONSOR ADVISORS TEAM
    Support & Diversity Services Rich Freund
    Johanna Hanley
    Sharon Williams
    Linda Fossen
    Kate Barry
    Barbara Delanski
    Nick Cheshire
    Phyllis Geyer
    Sandy Ing
    Jerry Nehring
    Leigh Alice Petty
    Support and Diversity Services Team
    ACS Support and Diversity Services Team
    CWIC Team
    Students First! Center Team Leader Manager
     
    Billing Statement Kay Malmberg
    Edna Grass
    Marie Matsen
    Nick Cheshire
    Edna Grass
    Jerry Nehring
    Verne Whittaker
    Sharon Williams
    Computer Services
    Programming Team
     
    Charges, Payments, & Adjustments, and Cashiering Kay Malmberg Marie Matsen Nick Cheshire
    Shelley Dutton
    Verne Whittaker
    Library representative
    Programming Team
    Identified Service Area Representatives
    Computer Services
    Personnel Services
     
    Credit Policy Kay Malmberg Marie Matsen Executive Leadership Team
    Implementation Team
    Nick Cheshire
    Sue McDonald
    Verne Whittaker
    Sharon Williams
    Student Finance Team
    Student Finance Team Leader Manager

    Recommendation COACH SPONSOR ADVISORS TEAM
    Federal Loan Processes Edna Grass Marie Matsen
    Linda Fossen
    Linda DeWitt
    Kay Malmberg
    Anita Overton
    Pam Robison
    Student Account Representative
    Verne Whittaker
    Programming Team
    Financial Aid Team Leader Manager
    Student Finance Team Leader Manager
    Student Loan Team

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