Staff Advancement, Leadership and Development

In order to most clearly articulate the goals of this area, it is important to first define the concepts at the core. The functional definitions of staff, development, advancement, and leadership for the work of this area will be:

Staff: Staff will refer to all employees of SDSU whose primary job role is administrative or technical in nature and that falls outside the realms of faculty positions. This will include represented staff, part-time staff and managers.

Development: Development will refer to the process of growth, learning, and enhancement related to the values, perspectives, skills, and capacities needed for staff to perform their jobs at or above the articulated expectations of their positions.

Advancement: Advancement will refer to the opportunities for movement into new roles within SDSU and/or within each staff member’s chosen professional field; the opportunities to build upon the variety of skills and competencies employed to meet the changing nature of work at SDSU; and the organizational pathways that bring those opportunities to fruition for staff.

Leadership: Leadership will refer to the capacity each individual has to create positive change in the world around them. Leadership will be distinct from management or authority in that it can be exercised by anyone from anywhere in the organizational hierarchy rather than being innately tied to certain positions or roles.

In order to realize each of these concepts, Staff Development, Advancement, and Leadership Programs will deploy a robust suite of programs and opportunities for staff to experience, engage in, and contribute to their individual success, the success of the communities of which they see themselves as a part, and of SDSU.

The programming offered by the Staff Development, Advancement, and Leadership Programs area will cohere around a set of outcomes related to each of its areas of focus. Those outcomes are:

Development
Staff who participate in programs with this office will make progress toward:

• Identifying new skills and capacities as well as opportunities to enhance said skills and capacities in order to achieve excellence in their work.
• Articulating a clear connection between their work and the SDSU Principles of Community.
• Creating and/or adding to a professional development action plan.
• Meeting or exceeding all aspects of the evaluation criteria as their positions.

Advancement
Staff who participate in programs with this office will make progress toward:

• Articulating a clear set of career goals.
• Identifying the resources, learning, and opportunities needed to achieve any identified career goals.
• Developing the technical, interpersonal, and organizational skills needed to excel in the identified career goals.

Leadership
Staff who participate in programs with this office will make progress toward:

• Articulating a definition of leadership that is consistent with their personal and professional values as well as the SDSU Principles of Community.
• Developing the skills and capacities necessary to practice leadership on and off campus.
• Identifying opportunities to make positive change in their campus and San Diego communities.