ACTUALIZING THE VISION AND MISSION OF UEW THROUGH STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP by Prof A. Asabere-Ameyaw VC UEW September 29,

1. ACTUALIZING THE VISION AND MISSION OF UEW THROUGH STRATEGIC LEADERSHIPbyProf A. Asabere-AmeyawVC � UEWSeptember 29, 2011 1

2. Our Desire and Purpose - Vision and Mission Core Values Vision 2011 - 2015 Challenges Overcoming the Challenges through Strategic Leadership - What is strategic leadership? - Self-assessment - Competencies - Consequential decisions Conclusion Outline 2

3. Vision To be an internationally reputable institution for teacher education and research Mission To train competent professional teachers for all levels of education as well as conduct research, disseminate knowledge and contribute to educational policy and development Our Desire and Purpose 3

4. The core values essential for attaining our vision and mission are: Academic excellence Good corporate governance Service to the community Gender equity Social inclusiveness Teamwork Core Values 4

5. For the period 2011 � 2015 our desire is to consolidate gains made so far in transforming the University into an internationally well recognized tertiary teacher education institution. This we hope to achieve by: ensuring that the University is well positioned to compete favourably with other well recognized Teacher Education Universities across the globe ensure more visibility to all our satellite campuses Vision 2011 - 2015 5

6. ensuring that all the infrastructural developments we have embarked on are completed and furnished with state of the art equipment. This will enable the University to expand access and improve on the quality of teaching and research. ensuring that our admission processes are transparent and competitive. This will give equal opportunities to all and enable us to select the best of applicants. Vision 2011 � 2015 cont� 6

7. ensuring that we maintain neat and beautiful environment maintaining and improving on high academic standards in teaching, learning and research ensuring that the administrative system remains proactive and responsive ensuring aggressive and effective mobilization of resources ensuring judicious and prudent utilization of resources. promoting access and equity. Vision 2011 � 2015 cont� 7

8. Obsolete and/or inadequate equipment/teaching-learning materials/library facilities Inadequate office accommodation/lecture theatres/laboratories/workshops/furniture Inadequate housing for staff Poor road networks Stiff competition from other public universities Inadequate number of qualified teaching staff/ large student-lecturer ratio Ageing staff Challenges 8

9. Skewed Professor: Senior Lecturer: Lecturer ratio towards the lower tier (9: 21: 70, respectively) Inadequate health facilities Inadequate funding Unattractive socio-economic opportunities in most host towns Limited opportunities for staff development Encroachment on University lands Challenges cont� 9

10. Strategic Leadership - What is strategic leadership? - Self-assessment - Competencies - Consequential decisions Overcoming the Challengesthrough strategic leadership 10

11. Learning to think from big to small (deductive reasoning) instead of from the other way (inductive reasoning) is a must for strategic reasoning. The strategic leader must be a big-picture seeker and must be able to use broad frames of reference to interpret events and devise plans What is strategic leadership? Strategic Leadership 11

12. Strategic leadership: entails making decisions requires devising plans that are feasible, desirable and acceptable demands the ability to make sound, and reasoned decisions is the thinking and decision making required to develop and effect a plan provides the vision and direction for the growth and success of an organization Strategic Leadership cont� 12

13. vi. requires the potential to foresee and comprehend the work environment vii. requires objectivity and potential to look at the broader picture viii. Functional strategic leadership is about inventiveness, perception and planning in an organization to use the workforce to realize the organizational goals without intimidation or coercion Strategic Leadership cont� 13

14. Definition Strategic leadership is the ability of an experienced senior leader who has the wisdom and vision to create and execute plans and make consequential decisions or Strategic leadership is a leader�s potential to express a strategic vision of an organization or part of the organization and to motivate and persuade others to acquire that vision Strategic Leadership cont� 14

15. Becoming a strategic leader starts with taking stock of your: - leadership abilities - conceptual capacity - interpersonal skills A thorough self-assessment helps in the identification of ones strengths and weaknesses Self-Assessment 15

16. Self-learners Voracious readers � they read outside their normal area of expertise Loyalty � powerful and effective leaders demonstrate their loyalty to their vision by their words and actions Keeping them updated � efficient and effective leaders keep themselves updated about what is happening in their organizations Competencies/Traits of Strategic Leaders 16

17. Judicious use of power Wider perspective/outlook Motivation Compassion � understand the views and feelings of their subordinates Self-control Social skills Self-awareness Competencies/Traits of Strategic Leaders 17

18. Readiness to delegate and authorize Articulacy � strategic leaders are articulate enough to communicate the vision of where the organization should head Constancy/reliability � strategic leaders constantly convey their vision until it becomes a component of organizational culture Competencies/Traits of Strategic Leaders 18

19. Strategic leadership requires consequential decision making Consequential decisions require years to play out In most cases, strategic decision makers may not be around to witness the consequences of their decisions Clearly, a hasty consequential decision can be very costly Consequential Decisions 19

20. Consequential decisions are profound � have the potential to create great change, lead trends, alter the course of events, make history and initiate a number of wide-ranging effects Consequential Decisions cont� 20

21. Strategic leaders create vision express vision passionately possess vision and persistently and cautiously drive it to accomplishment Conclusion 21

22. THANK YOU 22