Change People Incentives and Priority to bring Change in Educational Institution:

Most of the academic staff (Teaching and Non Teaching) in educational institutions does not have complete information of institutional strategy documents, standard policies and procedures. If they might have seen it then they think it is of no use. If the institution strategy is to bring changes in staffs overall behaviour then institution has to provide new and attractive incentives and top management have to monitor the performance of staff minutely.

Institution strategy will be successful if they list core priorities rather than operational plans. Marketing plan concentrate much more on pump and show, but its impact on institution internal community cannot be justified and will be questionable. Through marketing pump and show approach institution can attract mass but if it not been matched by the internal community then it will impact the goodwill of the institution.

Dr S.M.Tariq Zafar

The first and foremost step is the institutions must have committed and dedicated leadership with a clear vision, mission, and objectives. The leadership style must be of the 'Inclusive and Servant Leadership Type". All stakeholders should be involved in developing the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of the institutions and the program. The strategic plan must be developed based on the aspirations, initiatives, and objectives of the key stakeholders with well-defined KPIs and benchmarks. There should be well-connected and dynamic QMS with clear IQA and EQA mechanisms translated to the faculty and program levels. Finally, all decisions must be made on merit bases instead of nepotism, favoritism, or racism. High achievers must be appreciated and absconders and flatterers must be punished.

In educational institutions, the best way to make favorable changes is through accreditations, for example: quality management, foreign universities or international integration organizations.

Source: Own experience

I believe that educators in all learning institutions need to craft a meaningful mission statement meant not for the public, but for the students they are going to teach. My suggestion is that it starts with each individual department for their own consumption, then, possibly, can be combined into an institutional statement. I have facilitated such sessions in various institutions and it is remarkable how much better both teachers and institutional leaders understand who they are and why the exist. Here are some sample questions to brainstorm:

1. Who are we?

2. Why do we exist?

3. Who are our customers?

4. What do our customers need from us?

5. How do we know we are doing a good job?

Involve the whole department in the discussion.

Look for themes and outliers. Probe the outliers. They may have a new idea.

Establish a subset of participants (no more than three) to wordsmith the themes into two or three Mission Statements that capture the essence of what participants said without showing personal bias.

Share the statements with participants and determine which statement they like best as a mission statement for themselves. If anyone doesn't like any of them, ask why. Then invite them to contribute a better one for consideration. If you feel the new one is worthy of another look, or is significantly different from the ones you already have, you can have others view and comment on it. But no one should be allowed to reject all of the proposed statements without replacing them with a different option. While this is time-consuming and annoying, it can result in a stronger statement. Allow the original three people who wrote up the initial statements to evaluate and, if necessary, tweak the original statements as needed.

La estrategia basada en proyectos no sólo permite poner el práctica el conocimiento aprendido, permite la multidisciplinariedad y el acercamiento a las comunidades. Me ha dado buenos resultados y experiencias, sin embargo, no he logrado motivar a otros docentes a trabajar en conjunto.