Books

On Boarding the “Transitional” Presidency: A New Imperative for “Interim” Presidents, Paperback – June 13, 2022
Patrick Sanaghan, Dorothy Escribano, Karen Whitney, Mary Hinton
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Presidential transitions will increase dramatically over the next 5-10 years. The role of “interim” presidents will become more important and strategic than ever before. The challenge then is two fold:

1. Do we have enough qualified interim presidents to fill in the leadership gaps that will be created ( we are unsure of this).
2. How does the external interim, or as we call it, the “transitional” president quickly and successfully onboard onto campus and lead from day one?

There will be no “honeymoon” period for these transitional presidents due to the complexities and challenges facing our campuses. The pace of change will only get faster and the future is saturated with ambiguity.
The “transitional” president must connect with the campus culture authentically and quickly and learn about institutional politics, culture, and values. How does a new leader actually do this?

How To Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan: A “Practitioner’s” Guide Paperback – May 25, 2021
Patrick Sanaghan
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In higher education, almost 80 percent of strategic plans for campuses don’t get implemented. This is despite a great deal of time, money, effort, and resources.

How to Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan is your guide to effective practices that initiate strategic change. Including protocols tested in over 50 schools across the United States, this practitioner’s manual for successful strategic implementation and execution will benefit your institution and those within it.

You’ll discover:

• Thirteen strategic planning implementation mistakes to prevent wasted allocation of time, funds, and resources. Informal and practical surveys to evaluate organizational culture, implementation capacity, and boundary management.
• Eight powerful and collaborative meeting designs that create the meaningful engagement of stakeholders, encourage honest feedback, and delegate responsibility of formulated solutions to the right parties. 
• The Push Agenda, a prioritization process for the final year objectives of a strategic plan that reenergizes stakeholders and enables them to “finish well.”
• An engaging, inclusive, five-phase process with an 80 percent rate of goal accomplishment for over 50 institutions.

Improve the chances of strategy-based goal achievement for your school and your mission. Get How to Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan now for more effective and collaborative strategic planning that facilitates abiding change.

How To be a “Better” Procrastinator: Over 100 strategies to help you Manage your Procrastination Habit.
Patrick Sanaghan
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Almost everyone procrastinates about something, but some of us, about 20% of the population, are chronic procrastinators. They suffer the consequences of this ?mean? habit and experience a great deal of stress and guilt. Procrastinators delay or put off things they find unpleasant or overwhelming which creates a vicious cycle of putting things off that still need to be done.

Procrastination is a very tough habit to deal with and has damaged millions of careers, impacted people?s health (e.g. delay going to the doctors, or getting a colonoscopy) and cost people billions of dollars in late fees for income tax filing, credit card payments, missed deadlines for scholarships and grants. The book will help you deal effectively with your procrastination and have a better quality of life.

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The Meeting Diagnostic “M.R.I.” (M.M.R.I.): A Deep Diagnostic of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Regular Meetings
Patrick Sanaghan
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We have millions of meetings daily in this country, unfortunately, many of them are considered ineffective by participants. This diagnostic survey will help you understand what is working in your regular and ongoing meetings and what isn’t. It will be like an “MRI” and enable you to “see” what needs improving in no uncertain terms.

The Meeting “MRI” is easy to administer and you can see the results quickly. If you can improve the quality of your meetings you will save time and opportunity costs and tap the talent and expertise of your participants. I have used this survey in over 100 organizations across all sectors of the economy and achieved excellent results. In one large company, we were able to eliminate ineffective meetings and saved them millions.

The Team Diagnostic MRI (T.M.R.I.): Identify the Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Team
Patrick Sanaghan
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Almost all important work in an organization is achieved through teams. An effective team can reap great benefits and outcomes and set the standard for others. The challenge for any team leader is to understand the “gifts” their people bring to the table and utilize their strengths and talents. This is very challenging because too many teams don’t perform to their potential. What’s a leader to do when their team is talented but underperforming?

This survey will help you identify the six vital elements of high performing teams and allow you to compare your team’s effectiveness with some of the best teams in the world. It is research based and includes an item analysis for the six team categories. It is easy to use and will provide a deep diagnostic for any leader who wants to better understand the complexity of their team. It includes 10 powerful ways to build a great team as well as advice on how to improve overall.

How to Get More Done, Get Laser-Focused and Achieve Your Most Important Goals
Kindle Edition

Patrick Sanaghan
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Achieve Your Biggest Goal. Get More Done. And Get Laser-Focused.

Super Achievers shows exactly how to set and achieve meaningful goals that move the needle for your life and your business. Written in a simple, no-BS manner, this little book provides the achievement acceleration tools and tactics needed.

From Presidential Transition to Integration: Strategies to Avoid Early Derailment
Patrick Sanaghan
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There are hundreds of presidential transitions taking place every year, but many are doomed to derail early. Why is this? Often, it’s because attention is paid only to the initial hire and transition. Though the search process is important in selecting a new president, it is merely one component in a larger integration process that will make or break a presidential tenure. If we are to prevent presidential derailments, then the integration needs to be explicit, strategic, well-executed, and monitored and owned by campus leaders, especially by the governing board.

Drawing on research into hundreds of presidential transitions, filled with strategies that have been tested at colleges and universities, and written by a leading leadership consultant with contributions from former and current presidents, From Presidential Transition to Integration provides an in-depth handbook to setting up a new presidency for success. It is a must-read for aspiring presidents, boards, and executive search and transition committees.

Presidential Transitions. It’s Not Just the Position, It’s the Transition
Patrick Sanaghan
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A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than one-third of the presidential transitions in higher education are involuntary and have a negative effect on the institution. This book is designed to provide assistance to presidents, trustees, faculty, and other important stakeholder groups and help them avoid the pitfalls of poorly managed transitions.

The authors discuss how, with proper planning, care, and execution, this presidential passage can be an opportunity for a transitioning president, and those who surround him or her, to write a positive chapter in the campus history. Readers will discover that appropriately addressing the anxiety that accompanies major transitions_for both those joining the institution and those already present_is essential. Dozens of presidents, chancellors, board members, and other senior executives were interviewed for this book. Each major chapter includes selected personal observations, from these interviews, which illustrate the critical issues addressed in the book.

How Higher-Ed Leaders Derail: A Survival Guide for Leaders
Patrick Sanaghan
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In higher-ed, there is a widely-held myth that the smartest person in the room should lead. We take for granted that someone who is smart can lead, and when we don’t take steps to prepare or develop our people for leadership positions, leaders are more likely to derail.This is a problem, because college and university leaders at all levels increasingly face complex challenges without easy solutions. They are navigating unknown territory.

Collaborative Leadership in Action: A Field Guide for Creating Meetings That Make a Difference
Patrick Sanaghan – Paulette A. Gabriel
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The heart of the book is a collection of collaborative meeting designs to help you work through the myriad of details involved in organizing meetings that achieve your desired outcome. Each collaborative meeting design is graphically illustrated and includes level of difficulty, time required, materials and space needs, number of participants and specific facilitation instructions.

Creating the Exceptional Team: A Practitioner’s Guide
Patrick Sanaghan – Kimberly Eberbach
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Teams that are “pretty good” don’t cut it in today’s world. You need an exceptional team to handle the complex, highly ambiguous, and often daunting challenges facing organizations now. This practitioner’s guide is packed with processes, designs, tools, and models, a diagnostic instrument and good old fashioned advice from two leadership experts.

Collaborative Strategic Planning in Higher Education
Patrick Sanaghan – 2009 NACUBO
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In his work with more than 100 higher education institutions over the last 25 years, education consultant Patrick Sanaghan has observed that even the most well-crafted and detailed strategic plans often fail simply because internal stakeholders often are not involved in the process and feel no connection to the outcome. Sanaghan’s five-phase Collaborative Strategic Planning process (CSP) tackles this challenge and guides higher education leaders on involving stakeholders in the process from concept to implementation.

High Impact Tools & Activities for Strategic Planning
Rodney Napier, Clint Sidle, Patrick Sanaghan – 1997 – Business & Economics – 424 pages
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Intentional Design and the Process of Change
(Sanaghan and Napier) Follett Publishing, 2002
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The Highly Effective Meeting Profile
(Sanaghan, Goldstein and Conway) HRD Press, 2003
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Stop wasting time on unfocused and unproductive meetings! A Common Sense Survey for Assessing the Meeting Effectiveness of Intact and Ongoing Groups. How effective are your meetings? Do people come well-prepared? Is there an agenda? Does everyone participate? Are participants open to the ideas of others? Do you spend most of your time on the most important things?

The Change Management Readinesss Survey
(Sanaghan, Goldstein and Roy) HRD Press, 2005
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How can you ensure that the major organizational change you are planning to your structure, strategy, operations, production, or culture will be successful?

Presidential Transitions,
ACE/Praeger, 2007 (Co-author)
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A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than one-third of the presidential transitions in higher education are involuntary and have a negative effect on the institution.