Only in the short term / temporary Improved customer satisfaction rating/ customers noticing a positive difference Improved employee satisfaction rating/ employees more engaged, motivated Improved individual performance review ratings/ better work performance, products Employees more confident to apply for higher leadership positions/ employees feel more empowered Other My final question to each of you is this: If you were king or queen of Vanderbilt for a day and you could make any changes you wish to the FLP or any aspect of leadership development in Finance, what would you do? (Feel free to think big and time are no object). here…money Embedding with customers for bigger picture thinking/short-term assignments at customer location Have one finance department instead of two/ combine our teams/cross training Ice cream Fridays/ social events/ social media contents The Advisory Board facilitator become a full-time trainer/ add staff person dedicated to leadership learning Open up the FLP to all Finance employees/ other departments FLP should be all action learning with little or no classroom learning/ real world work project cases to work on together as Cohort Virtual online leadership courses available 24/7 Focus Group Coding During the interview, Focus Group participants may comment on multiple ideas or themes in their responses. Figure 10 below provides a sample of how evaluators should be diligent to watch for this and to code multiple ideas appropriately. Figure 10: Focus Group Coding Example Presentation Plan We believe our client is best served by providing the plan in Table 10 for communicating results of the evaluation plan to the appropriate parties. For our purposes, the two stakeholder groups identified as communication targets for the evaluation results will be Cohort 1 participants and Brett Sweet & the VU Finance Executive team. Presentations with Cohort 1 will focus on communicating survey results, initial implications in terms of programmatic decision-making, and soliciting verification of recommendations to be brought to Brett Sweet and the executive team. Presentations to the Executive
Only in the short term / temporary Improved customer satisfaction rating/ customers noticing a positive difference Improved employee satisfaction rating/ employees more engaged, motivated Improved individual performance review ratings/ better work performance, products Employees more confident to apply for higher leadership positions/ employees feel more empowered Other My final question to each of you is this: If you were king or queen of Vanderbilt for a day and you could make any changes you wish to the FLP or any aspect of leadership development in Finance, what would you do? (Feel free to think big here…money and time are no object). Embedding with customers for bigger picture thinking/short-term assignments at customer location Have one finance department instead of two/ combine our teams/cross training Ice cream Fridays/ social events/ social media contents The Advisory Board facilitator become a full-time trainer/ add staff person dedicated to leadership learning Open up the FLP to all Finance employees/ other departments FLP should be all action learning with little or no classroom learning/ real world work project cases to work on together as Cohort Virtual online leadership courses available 24/7 Focus Group Coding During the interview, Focus Group participants may comment on multiple ideas or themes in their responses. Figure 10 below provides a sample of how evaluators should be diligent to watch for this and to code multiple ideas appropriately. Figure 10: Focus Group Coding Example Presentation Plan We believe our client is best served by providing the plan in Table 10 for communicating results of the evaluation plan to the appropriate parties. For our purposes, the two stakeholder groups identified as communication targets for the evaluation results will be Cohort 1 participants and Brett Sweet & the VU Finance Executive team. Presentations with Cohort 1 will focus on communicating survey results, initial implications in terms of programmatic decision-making, and soliciting verification of recommendations to be brought to Brett Sweet and the executive team. Presentations to the Executive
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