Embrace Your Leadership: The Balancing Acts of Academic Leadership
Last updated August 29, 2024Course Length
42m
Last Updated
August 29, 2024
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Embrace Your Leadership: The Balancing Acts of Academic Leadership
Last updated August 29, 2024Table of Contents
Embrace your influence and authority as a department leader.
Overview
Serving as a department leader requires you to constantly evaluate and decide between a series of trade-offs. For instance, you may ask yourself questions like:
- “Do I lead as a faculty member or as a department head?”
- “Do I focus on the immediate or the long-term?”
- “Am I a colleague or a supervisor?”
How you choose your position is largely dependent on your natural leadership style and how well you understand the impact of your leadership choices on others.
In this course, you’ll be introduced to the Balancing Acts framework, which is a set of questions you can ask yourself to help you to navigate these inherent trade-offs. Specifically, you’ll explore the following three balancing acts, which will help you to understand how to make deliberate decisions on how you show up as a leader:
- Leadership Role: Reflects whose interests you represent
- Management Style: Reflects your source of influence over people
- Leadership Comfort Zone: Reflects the leadership mode you feel most comfortable operating within
By learning how to intentionally adjust your leadership style to the situation, opportunity, or problem at hand, you can maximize your influence as a department leader.
Who Will Benefit
We welcome all current or aspiring department chairs, heads, and program directors to participate in this course. If you’re looking for ways to better understand and embrace your influence and authority as a department leader, this program is for you!
Reviews
“I think this program is amazing. I teach emotional intelligence in one of my classes and believed I had little to learn personally. Boy was I wrong! The framework and balancing conversations were so great. Thank you!” Leigh Ann Bynum, Professor and Assistant Director for CARES, Belmont University
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