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Distance Education... Distance Education... Distance Education...

Renaissance Reflections

July 27, 1999

presented by:
   Dr. Janet K. Poley
President, ADEC Distance Education Consortium


  1. Leadership Styles
    • “People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.”

  2. What Makes a Leader?
    1. Management of Attention
      • Draws Others to Them
      • Focus of Commitment
      • Knows What They Want
      • Vision

  3. Leaders (cont.)
    1. Management of Meaning
      • communication, metaphors
    2. Management of Trust
      • Reliability, Constancy
    3. Management of Self (strengths,weakness)

  4. Creating Shared Leadership
    • Visionary
    • Transformational
    • Situational
    • Breakthrough
    • Charismatic

  5. Charismatic Leaders
    • Focus on Vision and Mission
    • Unique inspirational view
    • Empower and Energize
    • Impatient for Improvements
    • Live the vision, walk the talk
    • Weave congruent values
    • Affect aspirations, inspire sacrifice/loyalty

  6. Complexity Theory-Rules for Leaders
    1. Attend to relationships at all levels
    2. Small changes can have large effects
    3. Possibilities can be expected to emerge from the system

  7. Distance Education Leadership
    • “Orchestrating Congruence” not Organizing for Compliance

  8. What Do Faculty Want (Betts)
    1. Intellectual challenge
    2. Using new technology
    3. Ability to reach new audiences
    4. Opportunity to develop new ideas
    5. Technical support
    6. Overall job satisfaction
    7. Opportunity to diversify program
    8. Opportunity to improve teaching
    9. Financial reward
    10. Greater course flexibility

  9. What Inhibits Faculty?
    1. Lack of technical support
    2. Too much work
    3. Lack of release time
    4. Lack of financial support for development
    5. Quality concerns

  10. Key Talents (Gallup)
    • Striving Talents
    • Thinking Talents
    • Relating Talent

  11. Striving Talents
    • Achiever, Kinesthetic, Stamina, Competitive, Independent, Desire for Excellence, Competence, Beliefs and Values, Mission driven, Service driven, Clear Sense of Ethics, Vision Driven

  12. Thinking Talents
    • Focus on goals, Disciplined, Ability to orchestrate and arranger, Ability to mentally rehearse and review, Need to see order and accuracy, Need to assume personal responsibility/accountability, Ability to develop framework to make sense of things, Need to be objective, Strategic, Problem Solver, See Patterns, Creative, Numbers

  13. Relating Talents
    • Need to gain approval from others, Ability to empathize, Need to build bonds that last, Ability to build extensive network, Ability to capitalize on relationships, Awareness of and attentiveness to individual differences, Developer, Stimulator creating enthusiasm, Supporter, Positive, Persuasive, Ability to take charge, Impatient to move others to action, Courage to overcome resistance

  14. Energy Model
    • Moving With
    • Moving Against
    • Moving Away

  15. Moving With
    • Common Vision, Mission, Goals-Language
    • Bridging
    • Disclosing
    • Interpersonally Feeling, Empathy, Skills

  16. Moving Against
    • Persuading
    • Reasoning For and Against
    • Debating
    • Bargaining (If/Then)

  17. Moving Away
    • Disengage
    • Humor
    • Time Out


Click here for the Slide Presentation.

 
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