We are excited to release the next version of the Change Leadership Toolkit (CLT)! The CLT 2.0 was informed by a two-year research project funded by the Sloan Foundation working with 12 campuses on their systemic change projects. Through our latest research, we were able to refine the toolkit and worksheets.
We will be hosting a webinar on October 24 to review the updates to the Toolkit and showcase key leaders who have used the CLT to advance changes on their campus. Please sign up here for the webinar.
Here is a snapshot of some of the new content in the CLT 2.0:
- Revised pre-planning resources on the What, Why and Who of Change to help leaders define their change goals, clarify their leadership roles and build their change leadership team
- Streamlined planning and implementation worksheets with new, clearer instructions
- Re-ordered worksheets to facilitate stronger understanding of the systemic change planning process
- A new ecosystem mapping tool to bring all the concepts together
- Refined change levers — which are mechanisms to accelerate change
- More Case Studies to show the CLT working in different contexts
Through this research, we have also developed a robust curriculum to accompany the Toolkit. We ran a virtual professional development series using this curriculum in the fall of 2024. From our participants, we heard a lot of praise for the engaging curriculum and for the CLT:
“[The course and the CLT] definitely helped us think about how to break our habits. A lot of times we do things just because that’s the way things have always been done, and our university is so focused on tradition. But we really need to think about breaking the habits that we have and this really helped us do that.”
“I am enjoying the course and think we are getting some useful ideas out of it, and the discussions that we had were useful even when they weren't "on task." I personally do like the framework and feel relatively able to map our initiative onto it.”
“I studied change leadership as a doctoral student, and it was great to be reminded of that, and I found myself building on that. I find myself being able to identify levers in informal power structures more than I did before, and I recently found a group that advises the president on student success issues as an HSI and am pitching to them. I wouldn't have thought of that before.”
Our next funded project will allow us to turn this curriculum into asynchronous webinars available to all, anytime and anyplace.
