Workshop to explore excellence in challenging times

Tools available to help UW–Madison staff make budget decisions and plan strategically during tight budget times are part of Showcase 2003: Excellence in Challenging Times: Improving Work, Learning and Climate.

Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for administration, is a featured speaker for the event, which runs from 7:45 a.m.-noon, Monday, April 14, at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave.

The state budget situation is prompting the campus to explore creative ways to sustain traditional excellence, says organizer Dean Pribbenow, Office of Quality Improvement.

The fourth annual showcase highlights what departments, offices, schools and colleges are doing to improve. These ideas include: restructuring roles and services, improving climate, improving processes and enhancing learning.

Ted Marchese, managing director, Academic Search Consultation Service, Washington, D.C., and former vice president of the American Association for High Education and executive editor of Change, also will speak.

In addition to sharing ideas, participants are invited to concurrent sessions on topics such as:

improving climate from where one is right now,
strategic budgeting,
using appreciative inquiry every day,
online support for administrative processes,
nurturing human resources in uncertain times and
improving academic and administrative processes fast.

The Office of Quality Improvement and the Office of Human Resource Development are sponsoring Showcase 2003 with support from the School of Business and Fluno Center, Division of Information Technology, Office of the Provost, University Communications and WISCAPE.