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Agility in Academe: HOW CAN WE TAP KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE TO PROMOTE SMART EFFECTIVE HE RESPONSES TO A FAST CHANGING WORLD. 14.40-15.20 Dr John McGurk Head of Scotland and NI CIPD

Universities challenged

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This is what change looks like • A fast moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter collectively known as a tephra…moves away from a volcano reaching speeds of 430 mph. They (PF’s) are common and devastating…

Response looks like this

The HE culture • Collegiate and • Innovation and insight are often “negotiated” collaborative but not always not delivered. commercially/customer aware. • Heritage and heft can • Research driver can get be a big obstacle to in the way of other goals change and agility. • Driven and controlled by key talent and personalities

Barriers to agility: ( CIPD Hackathon 2012)

Learning is the answer

LIFE Experimentation beats You don’t need the C - For gene pools > diversity planning. The only thing Suite to pick winners. is better. Sameness in you can bank on in the Which ideas to fund, corporate life stifles future is surprises. Good which to kill - in most creativity. Being or bad. Experiment organisations it’s anything surrounded by like people disruptively. Dabble! but natural selection. can impair adaptability.

Seven simple shifts you can ramp up now The research Six shifts • CIPD and Towards • Leverage learning optimism Maturity major • Integrate learning and work benchmark of L&D • Actively seek to understand practice. internal customers • Too decile • Put technology on the learning agenda • X 5 more efficient • X 5 more productive • Think digital • X 8 more likely to have a • Cultivate curiosity learning culture. • Proactively invest in new • More innovative and L&D skills digital

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