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Project
Convener: Keith L. Smith
Project Coordinator: Garee W. Earnest
A
group of 32 individuals, consisting of faculty, department chairs,
human resources, vice provosts, deans, associate deans, staff,
graduate students and three external stakeholders, comprise the Leadership
Learning Community. This
core group learns and dialogues together about new ways to build
collaborative leadership within departments and colleges, across the
campus, and with the citizens of Ohio.
Below are several activities in which this group is currently
involved.
Ohio
State LINC Workshops
To
date, three LINC workshops have been held at The Ohio State University
with the Leadership Learning
Community. The
individuals that attend the National Kellogg Workshops work as a small
group to plan and teach the local workshops.
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The
first workshop focused on the learning organization and Bosserman's
formal and informal systems model.
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The
second workshop focused on change and the change process and
incorporated art as one way to learn about leadership and change. The workshop was held at the Columbus Museum of Art and the
artist, an Ohio State University professor, shared and dialogued with
the group about how his various art installations across the world
used standard processes in a different way and how changing standard
ways of doing things can help accomplish one's goals.
The participants also were given a tour and explanation of the
Dale Chihuly exhibition.
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The
third workshop focused on models of collective leadership and used a
jazz ensemble as the forum for learning and dialogue.
Read/Reflect/Dialogue
Sessions
The
Leadership Learning Community
members are given a book to read and reflect upon periodically, with
members volunteering to facilitate a dialogue session with the group
over a continental breakfast. The
books that have been read and discussed are:
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Tichy,
N.M. & Cohen, E.B. (1997).
The leadership engine:
How winning companies build leaders at every level.
New York: Harper Business.
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Quinn,
R.E. (1996). Deep change:
Discovering the leader within.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Graubard,
S.R. (1998). Education yesterday, education tomorrow.
Daedalus: Journal of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 127, (4).
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Cashman,
K. (1998). Leadership from the
inside out: Seven pathways to mastery.
Provo, UT: Executive Excellence.
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Goleman,
D. (1995). Emotional intelligence:
Why it can matter more than IQ.
New York: Bantam Books. Dialogue
to be conducted in January or early February 2000.
Dine
& Dialogue Sessions
The
Ohio State University is a very large institution that has many
different leadership development components occurring simultaneously.
One goal of Ohio LINC is to get more individuals dialoguing
with one another about the different leadership initiatives across the
university. Once a
quarter, individuals involved with the various leadership initiatives
are invited to a free box luncheon to (a) learn about other leadership
initiatives, (b) explore how they might collaborate, and (c) explore
how they might support one another.
The Leadership Learning Community as well as the various
leadership initiative project directors are invited to share and
dialogue together. Each
time, three leadership initiative project directors are invited to
share for approximately 20 minutes about their program and provide a
one-page summary of their initiative with the group.
To date, two sessions have been held.
Innovative
Project Grants
As
part of the initial Ohio LINC proposal, the OSU President's Office and
the Vice President for Agricultural Administration provided matching
funds to the Kellogg grant monies.
A total of $25,000 of these monies was designed for innovative
project grants. Members
of the Leadership Learning Community were able to apply for these monies to
encourage them to explore, take some risks, and try out new ideas
around leadership development, collective leadership and institutional
change. The grant
requirements were that members of the Leadership
Learning Community had to form a team with at least one other LINC
member to implement the project.
Grants were offered at a minimum of $1,000 to a maximum of
$5,000. Four proposals
were funded and are currently in process.
All four project mini grants will share a final report on their
accomplishments to the Leadership Learning Community.
LINC
Listserve
A
listserve was set up for the Leadership
Learning Community to use as communication tool among the group
members to share ideas, propose topics of discussion, and encourage
open dialogue. This has
not been as successful as hoped.
The members have not used the listserve.
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