Leadership for Academic Units: A Performance Improvement Model for Department Chairs, Deans, and Academic Vice Presidents (and those who aspire to be)

Preparing for the Next Improvement Cycle

Once actual results have been assessed and compared to target results, it is time to prepare to execute next year’s tactical objectives. The target results for next year have already been set according to the methodology presented in Chapter 6. For example, the target results for the year 2001 for the departments of ODU’s College of Engineering and Technology are shown in Table 7-9.

Table 7-9. ODU’s College of Engineering and Technology’s 2001 Target Results

Because it is likely that some of the next year’s planned strategic objectives will be similar to those originally planned for the current year, it ...