1. Professor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor 22nd November 2018
The new world of HE: supporting the community to thrive in a fast changing environment - supporting staff in HE to flourish
Professor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor 22nd November 2018

2. Themes Fast pace, constant change and the market
Working with the environment to support staff
Recognising talent for the future of HE
The community working
purposefully together

3. The Lincoln Community – staff and students together
Success lies in us working together, in
sharing our understandings and
communicating together
Success lies in being ambitious for
ourselves and our students
Success lies in our community first and
foremost
Success lies in all of us

4. Context is important The fast pace of work and HE Constant change
The market
Failure ??
The B word!

5. Fast Pace Not just HE but work in general
in the 1990s – social media in the 2000’s
24/7 news
Impact on work and working patterns
HE at the forefront of this – global organisations, 24/7 links, international students and staff and partnerships
Universities early adopters of /twitter etc.
Research impact and public engagement
Need to re-focus HOW we work???

6. Constant change
Funding, loans/not loans/competitive funds for research/international fees
Assessment REF, TEF and KEF
Regulation and public interest or media interest
Customer Service

7. The Market Students Home – cap removed: winners and losers
International – policy and competition
Staff
21st century mindset vs 20th century mindset
Excellence - attracting and
retaining staff

8. Failure What will Government do if institutions get into trouble?
Talk about students but what about staff in these circumstances?

9. The ‘B’ Word! Deal or no Deal plans Specifically EU staff retention
and recruitment
Students
Research
Locality and specific issues
Inter-relationship between different elements and impact

10. Working with Context to support staff
Role of Senior Management
Framework for support, reward and fairness in the workplace
Clarity in job roles and clarity in wider context
Resilience and changing work patterns – from 9-5 in the office to long term strategic goals and outcomes work at home, work on the move, work as it works for employees
Reward – is it just Pay or do we need to start thinking about total packages in more specific ways – What do staff want?
Fairness – pay ratios – Real Living Wage
Fairness – understanding culture and checking regularly where different groups are situated to take system action

11. Working with context to support staff
Understanding YOUR Institution’s mission and what staff needed to deliver mission and objectives
Changed beyond General ‘academics’ and ‘professional services’ and a pay spine with grades – to families of roles
Clarity of purpose: objective setting, appraisal, and role profiles
Development and career progression

12. Recognising Talent for the Future
Recruitment for the future – the end of the interview?
Recruitment within institution??
Strategy for next generation of staff
Identification of Talent
Package of reward that 21st century generation looking for
Development of Talent
Staying alive to developments and changing context

13. The Lincoln Community – staff and students together
Success lies in us working together, in sharing our
understandings and communicating together
Success lies in being ambitious for ourselves and
our students
Success lies in our community first and foremost
Success lies in all of us

14. Strategy for Recruitment and Staff development Reward and fairness
So…
Clarity of purpose
Alive to context
Strategy for Recruitment and Staff development
Reward and fairness
Sense of community and joint effort

15. Thank you