Full Description
Are you an academic leader or considering taking on a leadership position in the academy? Then this book is for you, even in an era of crisis in the highly-complex higher education sector. A one-size-fits-all leadership philosophy can meet all the challenges and opportunities facing academic leaders. Rather, successful leaders require a range of approaches and an ample supply of tools to maximize their effectiveness. This volume takes you through a series of balancing acts, each of which helps you to tailor your leadership choices to the issue at hand. It helps leaders to identify your current strengths and comfort zone in a series of dimensions and then encourages you to move beyond those comfort zones and to develop an ever-expanding array of leadership tools and skills. The result will be greater effectiveness in your decision-making, relationships, and management.
Contents
Foreword by Walt Gmelch
Preface
Introduction: Embrace your Leadership!
Chapter I: The Seesaws of Academic Leadership: A Framework for Fine-tuning your Leadership Choices
Chapter II: Professional Identity
Chapter III: Professional Role, or "Whose Team am I On?"
Chapter IV: Leadership Comfort Zone
Chapter V: Decision-making Style
Chapter VI: Management Style
Chapter VII: Availability
Chapter VIII: Focus of Attention
Chapter IX: Feedback
Chapter X: Balance the Seesaws and Tailor your Leadership
Bibliography
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