Operating Guidelines

Operating Guidelines

The primary ongoing operations for TIPS are around the regular gathering of TIPS core reps to share information and to network, to support TIPS objectives.

Core Reps Meetings

Schedule: Every other month or quarterly (varies based on team availability)

Meeting Objectives: 

• Create connections cross-university to foster information sharing, with a focus on ways to be more productive and opportunities to collaborate.
• Tap into the collective wisdom of the Stanford community by identifying feedback audiences.
• Provide visibility to senior leaders about relevant projects, opportunities and challenges.  (UMG, Senior Leaders in our units, Central Offices)
• Support professional development and leadership skill-building for Core Reps.

Meeting Roles

In each meeting, we assign roles for the next meeting.  

• Agenda Creator
• Meeting Scheduler
• Meeting Facilitator
• Icebreaker Creation / Lead
• Notes & Tracking
• Comms for Share-Out by TIPs Core Reps

Meeting Content

The standard content and structure for the meetings is as follows, with understanding that format and content can be varied as needed.

1. TIPS Shares: Knowledge & Info Sharing
2. TIPS Talks: Priorities & Challenges
3. TIPS Business
4. Action Items from last meeting
   1. Updates to TIPS model and tools
   2. Wrap-Up & Action Items