Policy development is the life-source of academic governance and provides an exciting opportunity to create healthy teams within organizations. Attendees will receive foundational information on various models necessary for effective teams through policy inception, development, implementation, and evaluation. These models will span useful principles, including quality improvement, knowledge management, agency, and accountability structures.

This session will provide attendees with foundational information on quality improvement, knowledge management, and accountability structures necessary to evaluate operational practices and policies that guide their work.

This session will apply these frameworks to how leaders, both formal and informal, can leverage their roles and positions to help their academic unit and/or organization to increase leadership capacity and engender empowerment (Bishop, et al., 2008; Hedberg, 1981; Senge, 1990). Through agency and empowerment using the locus of control model, attendees will also experience a connection of the foundational information and frameworks to mentorship and building future leaders (Rotter, 1966). The critical opportunity for staff and faculty to voice their perspectives through the governance structures and processes will be discussed through the ways leaders and experienced mentors can encourage staff and faculty to voice their opinions and actively contribute to the organization, as well as develop their leadership skills for the future viability of their colleges/schools, and beyond (Bishop, et al., 2008; Hedberg, 1981; Senge, 1990).

This session will provide attendees with foundational information on quality improvement, knowledge management, and accountability structures necessary to evaluate operational practices and policies that guide their work. Frameworks in quality improvement will focus on plan-do-check-act (PDCA) and plan-do-study-act (PDSA) models used across various industries (Hedberg, 1981; Jones, 2013; Lussier & Achua, 2022). Knowledge management will be approached from a lens of organizational health, well-being and empowerment for faculty and staff, as well as creating a sustainable future for the organization (Hedberg, 1981; Jones, 2013; Lussier & Achua, 2022). Agency and approaching challenges with a healthy locus of control mindset can be very useful and empowering to all staff and faculty across academic units and disciplines (Rotter, 1966). Accountability models will review strategies to ensure candor and kindness when ensuring follow-up and follow through by ensuring responsibility, accountability, consultation, and informing others (RACI), Gantt charts, and other methods (Hedberg, 1981; Jones, 2013; Lussier & Achua, 2022).

Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, attendees will:

1. Incorporate policy development into team-centered organizational culture and climate associated with academic governance.
2. Develop team-centered policy creation to highlight opportunities for organizational health and well-being.
3. Identify team-centered, actionable next steps to form a framework for innovative approaches to policy development leveraging organizational health and well-being at their home institutions.