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CAUDIT leadership institute - attendees perspective



Happy to put my head, and those of others, into
the crocodile's mouth.
Most of you reading this blog will know that in the past two and a half years or so I've been working for a University here in Canterbury New Zealand as their Online Services manager. We've had some great wins, particularly with our intranet for those who "don't want to learn anything new".
In the past few months I've received a promotion and, thanks to the willingness of the team I work with to also take on more responsibility, I am now the Applications manager / Online services manager.

As part of this move into a managerial role, though I have seen a lot of CSS and javascript lately, It was suggested that I attend the CAUDIT Leadership Institute (previously the CAUDIT-EDUCAUSE Institute). This course is designed as a professional development program for those who manage some aspect of information technology and resources in higher education, whether within their department or for the entire institution.

Anyway, Tricia of the CAUDIT Leadership Institute (CLI) team asked for volunteers on Monday to contribute as guest bloggers to the CLI blog, as first time attendees. Not being shy about putting my head in the crocodile’s mouth I put my hand up.

As always these and my guest blog posts on the CAUDIT site are my views and don’t reflect my employer’s views. . . ya da ya da ya da..

Right with the disclaimer out of the way, disclosure. I’m not getting paid to do this, nor do I have any affiliation to CAUDIT other than my employer paying the fee for me to attend the Leadership Institute event next week.

What I’m going to focus on is my experience, in the next post I’ll go back to when I first got introduced to CAUDIT and the Leadership Institute. From their I’ll put up some of my thoughts on what the value to my organisation and myself appear to be. Once we’re on the week I’ll give an attendees perspective and hopefully follow that up with some of the changes that come out of my attendance.

The CLI blog and my blog posts will differ a little in that here I'll be reflecting on my experiences at the CLI course from the perspective of an intranet professional.




Ciao

dorje
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