SHE LEADS: Managing & Navigating Change in Higher Education

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Webinar: May 30, 2023 (virtual)

Change in higher education can take many forms, as can the ways campus leaders approach it. Focused on how individuals who identify as women show up as leaders, this webinar will explore some of these forms and approaches. The presenters are seasoned leaders from varied higher education contexts who have navigated transition and transformation successfully—facilitating changes to roles and responsibilities amid disruption, leading in interim roles and during significant changes in institutional leadership. In addition to identifying types of transformation, including rethinking instructional modalities and how people work, the presenters will address communication, trust, and well-being.

Your Strengths

Conversation Triads

Conversation analysts identify three basic elements of conversation: the speaking turn, the adjacency pair and the sequential implicativeness (Sacks et al., 1974). In a conversation triad, a group of three people taking an active part in a conversation. Each member of the triad has a particular role that provides the foundation for a successful learning experience. During this triad activity, you will rotate through roles of interviewer, interviewee, and notetaker. As a listening exercise, participants will be constrained to pulling out key themes associated with what they heard from others’ experiences.

This session will offer opportunity for crowd-sourcing and community-building by engaging in the act of deep listening as we share strengths, challenges, and experiences in our roles. The session is designed to allow the work to emerge from participants who are present in the space. The triad practice uses a prompt protocol in which each participant responds to while others listen closely and without judgement, provide a summary of what they heard.

Adrienne Maree Browne. 2017. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. AK Press

Sacks, H., Schegloff, E., and Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking in conversation. Language 50, 696–735. doi: 10.1353/lan.1974.0010

Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill. 2005. Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. Jossey-Bass

Stephen D. Brookfield. 2016. The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking. Jossey-Bass

Grow Your Network

Who did you connect with during the session? How might they become part of your leadership development network? Be on the lookout for an email with resources and seek out from that list colleagues from your teams.

RESOURCES

AAC&U/CREDO Women In Leadership Institutes

https://www.aacu.org/event/women-in-leadership-institutes

A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education

Korns Ferry Leadership Cards

https://store.kornferry.com/en/product/5f8c9e26-e893-45e0-961d-c48fa038c029

Board Composition Matrix

https://www.diligent.com/insights/501c3/nonprofit-board-composition-matrix/

Learning to Love the Politics

Emergent Strategy

The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures [Lipmanowicz & McCandless]

Immunity to Change [Kegan & Lahey]