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Effective Leadership & Creating Change. Nancy Amato, Texas A&M. Leadership Opportunities. Formal Leadership Roles Internal & external: e.g., department head/chair, officer in professional society, … Leading New Initiatives
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Effective Leadership & Creating Change Nancy Amato, Texas A&M
Leadership Opportunities • Formal Leadership Roles • Internal & external: e.g., department head/chair, officer in professional society, … • Leading New Initiatives • non-permanent activities that may, but don’t have to, become institutionalized • Building New Programs • permanent & institutionalized activities
Formal Leadership Roles • University leadership positions • Department head/chair, dean, provost, president, etc. • External leadership positions • Rotator at NSF, professional society officer, conference program/general chair, etc. • Obtaining & Succeeding in these roles • build up: do a good job on shorter term and smaller projects (initiatives & programs) • discover what fits you best & focus there
The Facilitators Share… • One leadership opportunity I’m glad I took. • One thing related to a leadership opportunity that I wish I had done differently?
Leading New Initiatives • Initiatives are non-permanent activities that may, but don’t have to, become institutionalized • On-line departmental grad admissions, Campus-wide alliance of bioinformatics researchers, pilot program for peer teaching evaluations, college ombudsperson • Why would you want to lead one? • To get something done you believe in
Leading New Initiatives:Key Elements • Your passion for it • Won’t work well if you do it because others want it, you have to care about it • Clear statement of objective • Get feedback and buy-in from others • Determine & obtain needed resources • Time, financial, staff, space & a supporter/champion • Run with it, iterating on above steps as needed • Understand when it’s time to move to next stage
Initiatives Exercise • Get in pairs • Discuss/brainstorm about initiatives you would like to lead • Select one initiative each • Identity resources needed for it and who might be your supporter/champion
Initiatives Exercise Discussion • Share your ideas and see who here might have relevant experiences to share with you
Building New Programs • has political and technical aspects • Requires leadership • one or more committed advocates who are willing to do the work • The results may take much longer than you think they should
Building New Programs: Key Elements • Have a convincing rationale for change • preferably with data • Build consensus as needed • within department, college, university • Understand what is required • Know the approval process at your university • Insinuate yourself into key committees
Building New Programs: Consensus Exercise Choose a scenario Choose a role The proposer The only antagonistic The apathetic Nothing but negative A supporter (at most one per group) • Let’s start an honors program! • Let’s introduce a new course in Robotic Rabbits! • Let’s start a new degree program in digital forensics!
Building New Programs:Consensus Building Debriefing • What worked? • What tips do you need?
Discussion Questions • I see growth potential in our department. How should I promote change? Strategies to make it happen. • Are there certain roles or positions that are better/worse to take if I’m interested in future advancement? E.g., chairing undergraduate curriculum committee vs. faculty search?
Come to our BOF: We Need Your Input! • BOF: Designing a Senior Faculty Career Mentoring Workshop: Let’s Brainstorm • Friday October 4, 2013 • 3:45-4:45pm, MCC 200-D-G • Description: The goal of this BOF is to learn what resources would help academic women continue growing their careers after Full Professor. CRA-W runs career-mentoring workshops for undergraduate, graduate, early and mid career researchers. Building on these successful workshops, CRA-W is considering developing senior academic leadership materials. We want to learn from the community what training would help women continue to climb the academic career ladder.
CRA-W Wants Your Feedback • Please give us your feedback about this session and any other CRA-W mentoring sessions you have attended • http://alturl.com/z4gp9