{"id":1360,"date":"2016-10-25T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2022-05-16T00:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T00:34:04","slug":"what-leadership-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/2016\/10\/25\/what-leadership-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Leadership Means To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Research demonstrates that new tensions to traditional models of leadership exist. Technologies are catalyzing faster change and&nbsp;the marketplace&nbsp;is now a global one. And, our workforce is becoming more&nbsp;team-centric,&nbsp;diverse,&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;younger and older at the same time. As a result, an urgent challenge of the 21st century is the definition of leadership, the value of leadership, and what fundamental skills, capabilities, and dispositions are critical to fostering nimble leaders.&nbsp;<br><br>The word &#8220;leader&#8221; implies followers and&nbsp;traditional models of leadership have buckled under the weight of this implication. Access to real-time information has stripped traditional leaders of implied &#8220;authority&#8221;. Diversity has pushed against the notion of the &#8220;suit&#8221;, replacing it with people from every demographic profile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In higher education, hierarchical models of leadership have relied historically on the positional leader &#8211; coordinator, director, chair, dean, provost, president, chancellor, and others.&nbsp;Given&nbsp;the demand for novel leadership approaches,&nbsp;positional leaders must rely on distributed models of leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, our role as positional leaders is to&nbsp;build leadership competencies in all people, ensuring institutional capacity for change as well as robust succession planning in all facets of the academy.&nbsp;My gazelle focus is to spawn new faculty leaders in teaching and learning, in scholarship, research and creative inquiry, and in citizenship, thereby ensuring&nbsp;a healthy, nimble, and viable learning organization now and in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Meet the Blogger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/meet-the-staff\/\">Rosalie A. Richards, Ph.D.<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>is&nbsp;associate provost for faculty development and&nbsp;professor of chemistry and education at Stetson University. Her interest in distributed leadership\u2014how the work of leadership takes&nbsp;place among the people and in context of a complex organization\u2014aims at making excellence in higher education inclusive. &nbsp;<br><br>Adapted from Stetson Magazine article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/today\/2016\/10\/what-is-leadership\/\">What is Leadership?<\/a>, October 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research demonstrates that new tensions to traditional models of leadership exist. Technologies are catalyzing faster change and&nbsp;the marketplace&nbsp;is now a global one. And, our workforce is becoming more&nbsp;team-centric,&nbsp;diverse,&nbsp;and&nbsp;younger and older at the same time. As a result, an urgent challenge of the 21st century is the definition of leadership, the value of leadership, and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,35,34],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equity-and-inclusion","tag-access","tag-inclusive-excellence","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}