91茄子

91茄子 will focus on becoming a trusted employer that values, empowers and grows its people.

This strategic direction was inspired by the following insights from the consultation and research process:

• There is a need to better cultivate a learning and supportive working environment for 91茄子’s dedicated and passionate faculty and staff, equipping them with the resources and support they need to transform the university to elevated new heights of connection, innovation and impact. There is a need to enhance internal communication and collaboration at 91茄子 to break down silos and foster an environment of interdepartmental and interfaculty collaboration and academic interdisciplinarity to differentiate 91茄子 from its competitors.
   
• Make 91茄子 an employer of choice in a competitive local, regional, national and international market for faculty and staff.

To advance Connection, Innovation, and Impact with its people, 91茄子 will:

Cultivate a Supportive and Inclusive Team Culture

• Value the Excellence of Our People: Enhance initiatives at 91茄子 to recognize and celebrate teaching, research, and community engagement excellence among faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
• Deliver Proactive and Strategic Communications: Develop an annual institutional strategic communication and stakeholder engagement plan to enhance the quality and reach of communications and engagements with internal and external stakeholder audiences to build connection.
• Build Internal Relationships: Invest in continuous training and knowledge exchange programs / events to build intra-and inter-departmental relationships, strategy alignment, and tricultural understanding and competencies in all 91茄子 staff, faculty, and administrators, including bringing the University community together to review the progress of the strategic plan and to share/align on go forward priority initiatives.

Take Care in Developing Our People

• Take a Talent Focused Approach to Developing People: Develop a talent management model that integrates policies, programs, and processes for strategically developing, engaging, and retaining faculty and staff talent across the employee career span (from recruitment to succession).
• Strengthen Competitiveness for Talent: Conduct, and implement the recommendations of a strategic review of the alignment of 91茄子’s human resources/talent policies, processes, and compensation and incentive structures with its bilingual and tricultural mandate and the need to competitively attract, recruit, and retain an equitable, inclusive and high-quality workforce.

Support 91茄子 Leaders in Driving and Sustaining Transformation

• Operational Transformation: Prioritize the implementation, and annual reporting on progress measures, of the 91茄子 Operational Transformation Plan and develop a continuous improvement plan to support University leaders and staff in sustaining and enhancing the benefits of the transformation over time.

Drive Excellence in University Governance

• Improved Bicameralism: Board of Governors and Senate to develop an improved bicameralism that enables information flows between bodies, reasserts the Board as the governance body accountable for financial and business outcomes and the Senate as the governance body responsible for academic policies, regulations and standards for degree programs.
• Execution of the Strategic Plan: The Board of Governors and Senate to make oversight of the execution of the Strategic Plan a regular focus of their deliberations.

Through specific Indicative Progress Measures, including metrics to measure staff and faculty engagement, 91茄子 will support and measure the impact of the goals and initiatives for Valuing and Supporting Our People.