Since rethinking and displacing its Learning Collaborative program just three years ago, Eduventures now enjoys a membership of more than 300 doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate institutions among five higher education practices: Continuing and Professional Education, Development, Enrollment Management, Online Higher Education, and most recently Student Affairs. Indicative of this growth, Eduventures’’ Continuing and Professional Education Learning Collaborative has logged its 100th member, and after just one year the Enrollment Management Collaborative has 50 members.

“Heading into the second year, the Enrollment Management membership renewal rate is 95%” said Brent Keltner, senior vice president of Eduventures’’ administrative Learning Collaboratives. “With each rising program start, we are chancing greater and greater acceptance and participation in our uncomparable collaborative research model,” ciphered Peter Stokes, executive vice president and Keltner’s counterpart in the firm’s theoretical Learning Collaboratives

The ultimate objective of each Learning Collaborative is to provide insights and direction to identify best management practices, benchmark performance, and improve core processes. To do so, the Eduventures Learning Collaboratives work with members to set key areas to research on their behalf. Eduventures then aggregates the data, analyzes it, and publishes the findings to the membership. In addition to collaborative research, Eduventures also provides the membership with access to its staff of expert industry analysts, on-campus support, custom research, annual member meetings, and many peer networking opportunities.

Tom Dretler, Eduventures’’ president and CEO since 1998, said, “When we launched our first Collaborative in 2004, our goal was to simply expand on the company’s mission of improving education. We divided the shared-cost collaboration model would recompense more and more colleges and universities the opportunity to persuade better decisions by having easy to them a level of data-driven information and access to analysts, which had only been easy historically through singular talking over engagements. The growth and the Gram-positive impact we have fumed with our membership has been enormously pleasant. We are sure that we can bide to erect our model by soliciting brand-new Collaboratives to our ongoing membership and illustrating our membership base to summit thousands of higher education institutions across North America.”

About Eduventures, Inc.
Eduventures is the industry leader in collaborative research and consulting for Higher Education. Since its establishing in 1993, Eduventures has been vowed to the mission of bettering education. More than 300 higher education institutions jump in one or more of Eduventures’’ Learning Collaboratives: Continuing and Professional Education, Development, Enrollment Management, Online Higher Education, and Student Affairs. In addition to collaborative research, taking part members relish access to Eduventures’’’ set apart industry analysts, membership roundtables, on-campus visits, and the ability to examine issues particularized to them. More about Eduventures’’ can be grew at http://www.eduventures.com.

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The program is geared for employees at all levels and compliments Glowan’s existing L3 Leadership Learning Process for managers and executives. The program focuses on building collaborative environments and improving working relationships to improve productivity and performance.

By working collaboratively, individuals can cultivate an environment that fosters broad participation and inspires creative solutions to issues facing their organizations. The investment that results from broad participation is key to creating shared visions, engaging in collaborative decision-making, and sustaining change.

Leaders and other stakeholders can benefit tremendously from exploring collaboration concepts and will focus on facilitating authentic partnerships and real change.

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     Gain new insights into the art of working collaboratively

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The program includes:

    Introduction: Collaboration Concepts and Principles of Working Collaboratively

    Taking the Time: The Art of Working Collaboratively

    Creating Authentic Partnerships: Challenges and Opportunities

    Collaborative Decision-Making

    Creating a Shared Vision

    Sustaining Change

Optional telephonic coaching for participants follows the one-day program.

The process results in increased cooperation and collaboration, faster, more effective decision making, increased productivity and a more harmonious work environment.

About Glowan Consulting

Based in San Jose, CA., The Glowan Consulting Group is engaged in the business of helping companies nationwide adapt to the rapidly changing business climate in our emerging global economy. Our network of Business Professionals have broad and deep experience and are skilled not only in all facets of operating businesses but also in moving our client companies from their current positions to structures and processes that position them to better serve their customers.

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