1. CIO
Top Ten Gotcha’s

2. #1 Your Job Starts the Moment You Accept It
Navigate through bridge period without doing two jobs
Put safeguards in place to protect yourself
Stay informed 
Avoid making decisions

3. #2 You May Need to Make Major Decisions on Day One
Reflect on your bedrock values
Please your boss or adhere to your principles?
A question of principle or tactics?
Speaking truth to power

4. #3 Your calendar will have a life of its own!
Let go! Trust your administrative assistant
Limit the number who can write to calendar
Save one day a week for flexibility in the office
Allow travel time
Block quadrant 2 time
Let go! Trust your administrative assistant
Limit the number who can write to calendar
Save one day a week for flexibility in the office
Allow travel time
Block quadrant 2 time

5. #4 May I have a quote please?---the media will hunt you down!
Get acquainted with your media relations staff
Be proactive with the media
Develop sound bites
Prepare news release information in writing
Be clear on who can speak with the media
Designate a central person to coordinate

6. #5 You Have Less Political Heft Than You Thought You Did
CIOs report to the President, Provost, CFO
Each reporting relationship presents challenges
Double reporting relationships
Be realistic about your political power
You are the Secretary of Agriculture

7. #6 Are You an Insider or Outsider?: It Matters
CIOs are either recruited from the outside or promoted from within
Pros and cons for the outsider
Pros and cons for the insider

8. #7 You have less money and more expenses than your initial information suggests
CIOs continue to rank funding IT as a top annual challenge, and you won’t understand your budget until you have been through an entire year-budget cycle.

9. #8 Nearly Every Decision is Political
Every issue and decision has broad impact and many sides.
Try to listen and identify as many facets as possible before offering decisions or opinions.
Don’t get trapped by apparently obvious and easy decisions.
There are likely good reasons your predecessors made many of the decisions that they did.

10. #9
Metrics
#9 Metrics
You haven’t been collecting metrics for the whole year and now you have to write the annual report.
Decide early what metrics need to be collected and set up a process for that.
Use the EDUCAUSE Core Data information to benchmark with peer institutions.
You haven’t been collecting metrics for the whole year and now you have to write the annual report.
Decide early what metrics need to be collected and set up a process for that.
Use the EDUCAUSE Core Data information to benchmark with peer institutions.

11. #10 Performance Evaluations
You discover that your new institution’s performance review system doesn’t really address what you think is important about staff performance
Check out the performance review system early
Work with your management team to develop alternatives if needed
Monitor the process to insure equitable evaluations
You discover that your new institution’s performance review system doesn’t really address what you think is important about staff performance
Check out the performance review system early
Work with your management team to develop alternatives if needed
Monitor the process to insure equitable evaluations

12. Questions