6.2 Leadership Team The Leadership Team are those with final decision making power and financial sign-off authority, but not involved in the day-to-day of the project. For CES-focused projects and programs this team is often comprised of or includes administrative leaders from the University. Depending on the context of the initiative, a pre-existing team of university administrators may already represent this role and responsibility. This group of managers and senior project leaders typically meets monthly and:
Makes important governance decisions,
Leads and coordinates strategy development, Ensures the project plan is aligned with the institutional goals and strategy, and Provides support as project champions (Pinto & Slevin, 1989).
6.3 Work Streams/Work Stream Teams These are teams, sometimes individuals [depending on the scope of the project], responsible for the work/ sub-projects. Each team has a specific area of responsibility. These are the groups that need to proactively ensure all the internal and external functions are complementing the project. Each is represented by their own stream/row in the Impact Collaborative Project Roadmap. Depending on the project, work streams may vary to include strategy, structure/ operations, governance, fundraising, evaluation, communications, and other streams.
6.4 Change Network As the project itself is broken down into work stream teams, each Work Stream Team has a leader serving as a member of the Change Network Team. The change network team is the vital link between the overall project and the specific areas of work and information required to complete the specific tasks. This team ensures that each of the sub-projects (work streams) are connected as a whole project.
6.5 Design Teams Design teams are time-limited sub- teams, beyond traditional ‘committees,’ c onvened as needed, for a specific outcome, to craft and support, for example, educational events that deliver on your outcomes. These outcomes may vary from an event to a series of engagements, or specific products or outputs identified as part of a bigger initiative or project.
The Design team establishes a P.L.A.N. for the given engagement/event/service to be designed that is purpose-driven first and identifies:
P urpose & Outcomes - the outputs/products of the event L eaders/ Participants/ Stakeholders/ Partners [RACI+F] A ctions, A ctivities, and A genda of an event, as well as the N eeds - from financial to attitudes to technology, etc.
Design Teams are intentionally set up as with maximum possible representations of the stakeholders that will be participating in that event/ activity/ subproject, or using the product/ service in question. Through the Design Team process, design team members model the collaborative approach to planning and design intended to result in co-ownership of purpose and outcomes. Design Teams can also often be the starting point of a new project, program, or initiative.
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