Catalyst Presentation PackUse these slides to form your own #shapeRMIT

presentation.

Additional guidance is provided in the presenter notes for most of these slides.

What the presentation pack covers

● What is the overall vision and purpose for #shapeRMIT?● What are the outcomes that #shapeRMIT aspires to achieve?● What are some of the guiding principles for #shapeRMIT?● How will the process unfold?● What are some of the platforms, tools and other enablers we

have put in place?● How can participants get involved?● How can one become a #shapeRMIT Catalyst?● Slides to use in your workshops

Leading #shapeRMITWorkshop with {name of group}

Outcomes for today

● Greater shared understanding of the overall #shapeRMIT landscape and story: purpose, vision, outcomes, activities and timeframes

● An opportunity to contribute ideas on the future of RMIT

● An understanding of how to use specific online collaboration platforms to participate in #shapeRMIT

Flow of the day

Ideas on arrival

Setting the scene

#shapeRMIT online collaboration platforms

Closing discussion

Sharing ideas

#shapeRMIT purpose and principles

#shapeRMIT is an open process which invites all members of RMIT’s community to participate and contribute to shaping its future. It’s principles are:

● Student-centered● Collaborative● Transparent● Meaningful influence

● Adaptive● Responsive● Inclusive

#shapeRMIT outcomes

Let’s make RMIT even better

● Superior strategy

● Readiness to make the strategy real, together

● Increased collaborative capability across RMIT

How the strategy is created

The #shapeRMIT strategy team will listen to your thoughts both online and offline. This will influence how we write the strategy.

Have your say Be strategic

As the strategy starts to come together, we'll share the latest with you. Use this information to inform your ongoing discussions.

How ideas for action work

Use discussion groups as a space to shape up your specific ideas with your RMIT peers.

Brainstorm ideas

Imagine actionBe strategic

Always try to relate your ideas back to the strategy, as well as connecting up with others who have similar ideas and interests.

Create specific proposals for ways in which RMIT can realise its strategic vision.

How to participate in #shapeRMIT

Face-to-face events and workshops let you connect with your peers, imagine the future you’d like to see, and brainstorm ideas for action to shape the future of RMIT.

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Go to events and workshops

The #shapeRMIT strategy team will be hosting online discussions about the key theme already emerging for the strategy. You will also be able to start your own discussion groups if you wish. Our unique discussion tool will let you make proposals to your peers, for them to vote on.

Join online discussions

Ideas for action are structured proposals that can be put forward for consideration during the strategy process, and could become part of the action plans that will translate the strategy into outcomes over the next five years.

Through the #shapeRMIT project, the university commits to considering all ideas for action that are generated, making them transparent, and giving a clear response to all of them as to whether and how it can be adopted, and on what grounds.

Share ideas for action

We’re keeping a blog lots of picture and video about the process as it unfolds. This is a great way to catch up on the story so far, and get a deeper sense of the how the RMIT community is shaping its own future.

Follow the news

As the strategy continues to take shape through the work of the #shapeRMIT project team, we’ll be sharing more and more of our thinking. We plan to have a full draft for your review in before the strategy is submitted to council. Use this to inform your discussions and ideas for action.

Read the strategy

To reach everyone and make real changes, we’ll need leaders from across the RMIT community. Catalysts run events, generate news items, facilitate discussion groups, and lead the charge on generating and sharing powerful ideas for action.

Becoming a catalyst starts with downloading our catalyst kit, and coming along to one of our events to learn more.

Become a catalyst

#shapeRMIT is built around 7 priority themes

● Teaching & Learning● Student Experience & Support● Industry & Community Engagement● Research & Innovation● Global Reach & Impact● Enterprise & Employability● Workforce & Systems Capability

Types of online discussion group

Predefined groups

Some groups are set up, seeded and facilitated by the #shapeRMIT project team, in order to provide easily accessible opportunities for participants to have their say on key aspects of the strategy.

Emergent groups

Some groups are started and facilitated by participants in the process. This may be, for example, a student interest group or staff business area, that want to come together promote a particular idea or agenda.

Planning groups

Some groups are actually focused on spreading the #shapeRMIT opportunity within their part of the RMIT community. They might use discussion groups for planning and logistics around events and workshops they run.

Few and large

Many and small

Few and small

How participants shape RMIT

Here is my idea

Write and share your

Idea for Action

Scenario 1: Go it alone

Mention your Idea for Action in a

Discussion Group in order to

get feedback

Here is my idea, with

more detail

Update yourIdea for Action

based on feedback

How participants shape RMIT

Test your thinking by posting in an

existing Discussion Group

Here is my idea

Use the proposals feature to see if

anyone else in the Discussion Group might work on your

idea with you

Invite your peers to help you write up a

structured Idea for Action

Scenario 2: Rally a group

Mention your Idea for Action in a

Discussion Group in order to

get feedback

Here is my idea, with

more detail

Update yourIdea for Action

based on feedback

#shapeRMIT timeline

Discussion groups: Predefined and emergent discussion groups will continue to be hosted, facilitated, and initiated - by the #shapeRMIT team and by you - throughout the process, in response to the evolving strategy process.

late June July August September October November

Writing the strategy: The #shapeRMIT team will write the strategy with help from your insights, revealing new pieces as they go. A full draft will be available for review before the strategy is submitted to Council.

Workshops, events and campaigns: A variety of workshops, events and campaigns run by the project team and others will run throughout the duration of the process.

Ideas for action: Starting in mid-July, participants will be invited to submit Ideas for Action. Ideas will be able to be created and refined in a continuous manner throughout the process.

Finalising the strategy: Beginning with submission to Council in early September, the strategy will go through a series of official gates before it is ratified.

Making the strategy real

Catalyst slidesThe following slides are useful if you want to encourage

members of your community to become Catalysts as well.

Role of the catalystHelp others understanding the why, how and what of #shapeRMIT

Get others excited about participating in #shapeRMIT, and becoming catalysts themselves

Support the development of compelling, well-formed ideas for action

Catalyst activitiesA catalyst is a leader, facilitator and mentor that:

Initiates and moderates discussions relevant

to their peers, and encourages their peers

to join in

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Plans and delivers events and workshops

to help their peers become more involved in

#shapeRMIT

Sends email and other communications to

their peers, and share in social media, to

promote #shapeRMIT

Encourages their peers to create

ideas for action that are relevant to their

community

Ensures that the good work that their peers are doing are fed back into discussions and are reported on ShapeRMIT.com and other

channels.

Catalyst kit● Role of the Catalyst one-page

● Presentation pack

● Workshop guide

● Online collaboration guide

● Timelines & campaign guide

CatalystKit

How participants shape RMIT

Start your own Discussion Groupas a space to plan

the best way to promote

#shapeRMIT to your peers.

Support participants to

create their ownIdea for Action

Scenario 3: Be a catalyst

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Promote your event through

shapeRMIT.com and your usual

channels

CatalystKit

Use the #shapeRMIT

Catalyst Kit to help plan an event

or workshop

Encourage and support

participants to start their own

discussions or join existing ones.

Tell the story on the

shapeRMIT.com news page

Workshop slidesThe following slides might act as useful placeholders if you are using the Catalyst Kit Workshop guide to run

activities with your group.

Future perspectives exerciseOutcome: Creating greater shared understandings and shared visions, from different perspectives, on the possible future shape of RMIT.

For your team’s given theme, work through the following questions:● What is the report card like for RMIT today? What works and what doesn’t?● What are some sources of inspiration for who does this really well? Look at other

universities, other industries, or even departments within RMIT. What are the trends we are seeing? What are we behind on but what would like to lead on?

● How could RMIT be different from our peers for your lense? What is the compelling Vision and outcomes we should aspire towards for your theme?

● What enablers would we need to achieve these outcomes? Consider people, process, tools, technology, information.

● What would be the biggest challenges we face to achieving the vision and outcomes we are proposing?

You will have 45 mins for this exercise

Community slice & dice!

Idea sprint

Prototyping ideas for action

Catalyst conversation

Next steps

7 Priority Themes

The following slides can be printed out and blown up to A3 or larger as a way of bringing the themes into your

workshop space

Teaching & Learning

Student Experience &

Support

Industry & Community Engagement

Research & Innovation

Global Reach & Impact

Enterprise & Employability

Workforce & Systems

Capability