Implementing Innovative Events & Increasing Collaboration
AAMC Group for Insitutional Advancement • April 14, 2011
& the
SILOS
Donor
Appreciation
Event
White Coat
Retirement
Ceremony
Strategic
Plan
Launch
Melissa Lang
Claudia Keenan
Chief of Staff
Director, Alumni Relations
Director, Development
Connie McKenzie
Vincent Rhodes
Director, Marketing & Communications
"Chief of Stuff"
"Director,
Dumpster Fire Supression"
"Director,
Sideways Prevention"
"Director,
Crazy Minimization"
(likes to play with matches)
(sucker for a good theme)
(loves lasers)
(not afraid to break eggs to make omelettes)
Vision:
Eastern Virginia Medical School will be recgonized as the most community-oriented medical school in the nation.
Excellence
Collegiality
Integrity
Values:
http://evms.edu/MissionPossible/
To Infinity & Beyond
(audience)
(purpose)
Up, Up & Away
(metrics)
Faster than a speeding bullet...
(challenges)
Kryptonite
Fantastic Four
(key players)
(purpose)
Burn, Baby, Burn!
Combustibles

(audience)
(key metrics)
¡En Fuego!
Wet Blankets
(challenges)
(key players)
Firewalkers
Mission: Possible
(purpose)
(audience)
New Recruits
Declassified Intelligence
(metrics)
(challenges)
Rogue Agents
Special Forces
(key players)
Post-Mortems
Common Calendar
How do we break down silo walls (& cope with change)?
Editorial Board Meetings
From the Chief of Staff's Perspective:
shared metrics reporting
joint budget discussions
monthly Directors meetings
"We are all a part of External Affairs."
Residents Breakfast
(group
exercise)
http://www.evms.edu/GIA2011
Award-Winning! (AAMC GIA 2011)
You have been divided into mulitple groups. In each group you will represent Alumni, Development, or MarComm (ideally, some function different from the one you actually serve at your home institutiuon).
Questions:
What does your "department" need from residents?
How can your department help residents?
How can you help the other two departments?
Forging stronger realtionships
with residents