SEER Series 2025: Building Effective Collaboration in Higher Education Initiatives

The success of change initiatives are dependent upon the relationships between collaborators and with partners and other constituents. Individuals involved in change projects bring their complex social and organizational experiences, which influences their perspectives on leadership, interactions, processes, and priorities. Yet, change practitioners and leaders are often not given sufficient training and resources on how to form and engage in collaborative relationships, which leads to project inefficiencies, misunderstandings, and conflict. The purpose of this interactive workshop is to share a collaborative change framework and self-assessment tool to help change agents and teams examine collaborative dimensions to more effectively advance institutional change and transformation.