Expanding Horizons

Thoughts and ideas from ITLP participants regarding expanding staff horizons:

• Career planning
• Succession planning
  • Penn State uses formal tools to help define career paths
    • Directives that limit buy-in are ineffective
  • University of Chicago takes advantage of new endeavors and projects that then offer a clean slate
• Shadowing
  • Helps address the high rate of change in IT
  • Exposes staff to customers
• Cross-functional teams and roles
  • Adopted at Stanford
• Pushing outside of the institution
• Cross-functional projects
  • Create a comfort zone
• Make time and set priorities
• Middle managers are dead ends
• Wrestle with job vs. career