Welcome to the new Talking Stick discussion guide –
ACUHO-I and the Talking Stick exist to share knowledge resources, affect change, and meet the evolving needs of your institutions, your teams, and your students. We are excited to unveil a new resource to help you and your staff maximize the information contained within each issue of Talking Stick magazine. Last year ACUHO-I surveyed the Talking Stick readership, and hundreds of you responded. Along with delivering a professional development guide to all who completed the survey, we learned much about how you use the magazine to strengthen individual and departmental professional development efforts. Inspired by the reports of how many of you share articles with your staff or who want to add the Talking Stick to the professional development repertoire, each issue now will include a collection of discussion prompts for different articles. These questions will be included in print format, available online, and also integrated into the ACUHO-I online community. We are excited by the opportunities this will provide.
These discussion questions will help you and your teams make meaning of the content and best identify ways the information applies to your practices at your institutions. Here are some suggestions for how to incorporate this into your professional development curriculum:
For all the talk there is of tightening budgets and time restraints, discussing content from the Talking Stick with your department requires no additional funding and minimal time but can be high-impact professional development. We hope you will take advantage of this. Please feel free to email talkingstick@acuho-i.org to let us know how this is working for you and any other ideas you may want to share.
Happy learning!
Mary DeNiro, ACUHO-I CEO
Susan Strobel Hogan, Talking Stick Advisory Panel Chair
Tina Tormey, Talking Stick Advisory Panel Chair-Elect
CORE COMPETENCIES in this article:
Human Resources: Assist supervisees in identifying and addressing gaps in skills or knowledge needed to successfully meet their job expectations and responsibilities.
Questions:
Evaluation and Planning: Communicate with colleagues to ensure comprehensive understanding of qualitative and quantitative assessments.
Human Resources: Support the professional development of all staff in creating and sustaining healthy and effective supervisor/supervisee relationships.
Resident Educational Services: Create environments and programs that support student development.
Questions: (For departments considering a FIR program)
Questions: (For departments with a FIR program)
Occupancy: Collect data pertaining to occupancy/institutional enrollment goals and forecasting trends.
Fiscal Resources and Control: Provide the training program for staff on purchasing guidelines and procedures.