Official publication of the University Association for Administrative Development UPDATE Board of Directors University Association for Administrative Development http://uaad.unl.edu Serving the Managerial/Professional Staff at UNL since 1962 Volume 23, Issue 5 June 2009 When I said “yes,” I had no idea what Year-End Wrap-up Issue Volume 27, Issue 2 October 2012 Elected Officers President Vicki Highstreet President Elect Julie Thomsen Secretary Karen Wills Treasurer Jason Farber Executive Members Historian Deb Dahlke Member-at-Large Duane Mohlman Standing Committees Professional Development Coordinator Charlotte Frank Founder’s Day Coordinators Erin Wirth/Sally Bucholtz Nominating Chair Angi McAndrew Awards Chairs James Fischer, Randy Leach Membership Chair Amy Lanham Program Chair Michele Deaton Employee Liaison Chair Patrick Barrett Communications Sara Weixelman Webmasters Al Stark Michael O’Connor Community Outreach TBA Bylaws Review Chair Michele Deaton N ebraska Innovation Campus (NIC) is a research campus designed to facilitate partnerships between UNL and the private sector. NIC connects expert faculty and talented students with global businesses. NIC provides facilities and an environ- ment for innovation to thrive. NIC turns budding ideas into meaning- ful reality. NIC excels in issues that will impact our lives: food, fuel and water. http://innovate.unl.edu/overview_vision.shtml Join us at the October meeting for an update on the exciting things happening at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Lunch is brown bag. Bring a guest! 11:45-12:00 – Networking/Lunch 12:00-12:10 – Business Agenda 12:10-12:55 – Program/Speaker 12:55-1:00 – Question/Answer Period Breaking Ground For The Future Wednesday, October 17 11:45 am -1:00 pm Nebraska Union UAAD Members! Share your organization with others! Bring a colleague to the October meeting UAAD is open to all employees of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and its affiliates. Our organization promotes professional development, demeanor, and an inclusive environment for employees with administrative or professional/managerial responsibilities. Members whose guest is not a 2012-2013 member at the time of the October meeting will be eligible for a prize drawing. More details at the sign in table before the meeting. See you there! Nebraska Innovation Campus
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Official publication of the University Association for Administrative Development
Serving the Managerial/Professional Staff at UNL since 1962
Volume 23, Issue 5 June 2009
President’s MessageDear UAAD Members,
It has been an honor to serve as your UAAD president the past year. I still
remember the phone call from Mary LaGrange asking me to run for president like it was yesterday. The first thought that went through my mind when I received that call was “Mary LaGrange knows my name?!” The second thought was “Uh-oh – I hope I didn’t do anything wrong!”
Being a young staff member working in a small research center in Nebraska Hall, I did not get out much and the fact that the director of accounting was calling me was an honor in itself (since she was not calling me with bad news). When I said “yes,” I had no idea what the next two and a half years would bring in my life.
Year-End Wrap-up Issue
This year’s picnic was highlighted with a tour of Memorial Stadium and the Hawks Championship Center. Approximately 40 members of UAAD were
shown the stadium press boxes which present the journalists a terrific view of the field and our campus on game days. The tour took us down on the field and through the Husker museum in West Stadium and through the North Stadium tunnel walk, which features photos of Husker All-Americans. The next stop on the tour was through the new Hawks Championship Center. We were shown the indoor regulation-size field, the sand volleyball court, swimming pool, and batting and golf cages. We finished up with a walkthrough of the new weight room. Although it was windy, the day was still great for our picnic. On behalf of the UAAD Program Committee I would like to say thanks to the members that attended the tour and picnic. (See photos on page 2.)
At that time, I had only a husband and our small center was working on about $3 million in research. Now our center conducts more than $10 million in research, and I also have a toddler and another baby on the way, due in the next few weeks. The vast majority of my work as UAAD president has been done at home in the late hours of the night when the rest of my family is asleep. Having a life and working has been a very tough transition for me and learning when to work and when to cherish those moments with my husband and son is a daily battle that I
Forty Attend Stadium Tour, Picnicby Brian Keiser
Continued on page 3
Volume 27, Issue 2 October 2012
Elected Officers
PresidentVicki Highstreet
President ElectJulie Thomsen
SecretaryKaren Wills
TreasurerJason Farber
Executive Members
HistorianDeb Dahlke
Member-at-LargeDuane Mohlman
Standing Committees
Professional Development Coordinator
Charlotte Frank
Founder’s Day Coordinators
Erin Wirth/Sally Bucholtz
Nominating ChairAngi McAndrew
Awards ChairsJames Fischer, Randy Leach
Membership ChairAmy Lanham
Program ChairMichele Deaton
Employee Liaison ChairPatrick Barrett
Communications Sara Weixelman
WebmastersAl Stark
Michael O’Connor
Community OutreachTBA
Bylaws Review ChairMichele Deaton
Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC) is a research campus designed to
facilitate partnerships between UNL and the private sector.NIC connects expert faculty and talented
students with global businesses. NIC provides facilities and an environ-
ment for innovation to thrive.NIC turns budding ideas into meaning-
ful reality.NIC excels in issues that will impact our
lives: food, fuel and water.
http://innovate.unl.edu/overview_vision.shtml
Join us at the October meeting for an update on the exciting things happening at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
Lunch is brown bag. Bring a guest!
11:45-12:00 – Networking/Lunch12:00-12:10 – Business Agenda12:10-12:55 – Program/Speaker12:55-1:00 – Question/Answer Period
Breaking Ground For The FutureWednesday, October 1711:45 am -1:00 pm Nebraska Union
UAAD Members! Share your organization with others!Bring a colleague to the October meeting
UAAD is open to all employees of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and its affiliates. Our organization promotes professional development,
demeanor, and an inclusive environment for employees with administrative or professional/managerial responsibilities.
Members whose guest is not a 2012-2013 member at the time of the October meeting will be eligible for a prize drawing.
More details at the sign in table before the meeting.
October 17Innovation CampusProgress report - Kate Engel
November 7 (note: 1st Wednesday)Paul Wesselmann“Get Better, Not Bitter: Conquering Challenges in Work and Life”
December 19Annual Holiday Celebration
January 15UNOPA/UAAD Joint Meeting
February 20Founder’s DayOldt & Donaldson AwardsSpeaker: Dr. Ellen Weissinger
April 17JoAnne Owens-NauslerLooking Ahead & Reaching Back: Lessons In Living For The Sandwich Generation
MayYear-end Picnic
Professional Development WorkshopsNovember 8, 2012Paul WesselmannBest Work/Best Self: Time and Stress Management for Busy People
April 18, 2013JoAnne Owens-NauslerSecure Your Own Mask First: Managing Your Own Health
In this day of downsizing, doing more with less, taking on extra work, and often not feeling ap-
preciated, how do we develop and/or maintain a Win-Win mentality? Having a Win-Win mentality is criti-
cal to finding mutual benefit in any given situation. The mentality we are raised with is often Win-Lose. I get my way, or Win . . . you don’t get your way, or Lose. According to the law of synergy, there is always a better way to accomplish things. It’s not your way or my way, but our way (a 3rd alter-native). Where do we find these 3rd alternatives? They can be universal and personal, random and jarring, but they are always new, exciting and extraor-dinarily productive. They may take a little extra time on the front end, but are well worth it when the results make a positive difference in what we’re try-ing to accomplish.Strategies to use to accomplish the
3rd alternative could be as simple as asking “Are you willing to go for a solution that is better than any of us have come up with yet?” It helps to disarm defensiveness by not asking someone to give up their idea, but to look at alternatives that are better than either your or my idea. It begins as a “thought” experiment and nothing more. In this experiment you want to be looking at what “better” looks like . . . a list of criteria for a successful outcome. Once you’ve listed your cri-teria, creation of the prototype begins. Developing new framework, turning your thinking upside down and sus-pending judgment during this process are all part of the process. Arriving at a 3rd alternative will be an exciting time where hesitation and conflict are gone.This process may look a little like con-
flict resolution, but make no mistake, conflict resolution usually means ne-gotiating a low level accommodation
that stops the fight without necessarily breaking through amazing new results. How do you come up with your
criteria for success? Again, asking questions like “Is everyone involved in setting the criteria?” “Are we getting as many ideas from as many people as possible?” “What outcomes do we really want?” “What is the real job to be done?” “What outcomes would be wins for everyone?” and “Are we look-ing past our entrenched demands to something better?”The following are tips to help you
think Win-Win.
• Beware of pride. Let go of needing always to be “right.”
• Learn to say “I’m sorry.”• Be quick to forgive perceived
slights.• Make and keep very small
promises to yourself and others.• Make quiet time for yourself to
think though creative solutions.• You have two ears and one
mouth: use them proportionally.• Practice being generous with
others.• Avoid comparing yourself to
others.• Be grateful . . . and express it!• Learn to become relentless about
discovering how to create great wins for others.
• When things aren’t going well, take a break, and come back at it with freshness.
• Never stop believing in the possibility of the 3rd Alternative.
Make a difference, one person at a time.
Vicki D Highstreet2012-13 UAAD President
President’s Message . . .
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
The Third Alternative
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Who will you nominate for the Donaldson and Oldt
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The Founder’s Day Celebration is February 20, where your colleagues will be recognized. Nominations will be due in early February.
Carl A. Donaldson Award for Excellence in Management – This award, given annually since 1972, is in honor of Carl A. Donaldson. A graduate of the University of Ne-braska, Mr. Donaldson devoted his entire 43-year professional career to University service. In 1961, he founded the University Association for Administrative Development.
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Floyd S. Oldt Award for Excep-tional Service to the University – This award was created in 1992 from a bequest by University of Ne-braska alumnus Floyd S. Oldt who graduated in 1920. Mr. Oldt was a superintendent of Abel Construc-tion Company in Lincoln before moving to Dallas, Texas where he became a prominent general contractor. Mr. Oldt was a generous contributor to many humanitarian and civic organizations. This Floyd S. Oldt Award was designed specifi-cally to honor a UNL employee in a managerial/professional position.
Rewarding Service and Leadership
The NEW UAAD Mentoring Program is an opportunity for ALL UAAD members to:
If you are interested in being part of the UAAD Mentoring Program – as a mentor or mentee – please keep an eye out for a Call for Mentors/Mentees email toward the end of October.
We encourage you to take part in this exciting program offered by UAAD, sponsored by the Carl A. Donaldson Fund.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
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