I’ll be doing another online seminar with Student Affairs Leader on January 29th. The one I did in the Fall was about high quality leadership programs and this upcoming one will focus on leadership retreats. Here is the description they created about the seminar. I’m looking forward to digging deeper on a favorite topic: Student …
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Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age I would like to highlight this book from Juana Bordas as being a refreshing contribution to the world of leadership books. I read it for the National Leadership Symposium and was very engaged with turning the pages. It was filled with excellent stories and metaphors and …
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Recommended Leadership Books from CollegeMotivation.com Bennis, W.G. (1989). On becoming a leader. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing. Bennis, W. & Nanus, B. (1995) Leaders: The Strategies of Taking Charge. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Bolman, L., & Deal, T. (2001). Leading with soul. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Burns, J.M. (1978). Leadership. New York: Harper & Row. Covey, …
I spent two weekends in June helping with a couple of leadership retreat type conferences for high school students. I was the closing speaker for both the HOBY (Hugh O’Brien Youth Program) conference in Madison, Wisconsin as well as WILS, the Wisconsin Leadership Seminar, which is held in Milwaukee. I made it through the Wisconsin …
I am excited for the 2008 National Leadership Symposium! The theme is “Authenticity as a Spiritual Framework for Educating a New Generation of Leaders” July 10-13, 2008 University of Richmond Richmond, VAHere is the information about the Symposium and how to register while there are still spots available: To register, please visit www.naca.org You do …
Valerie Johnson, a graduate student interested in leadership programs synthesized the results of an online brainstorm about leadership program innovation and wrote the following article. This brainstorm is ongoing and you can still add ideas and vote! Thanks for the article Valerie! A recent brainstorm on brainreactions.net gathered ideas about providing quality and innovative leadership …
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In my consulting work, we hear from many organizations that they desire a positive culture of innovation within their organizations that relies on the collaboration, contribution, and shared leadership of all employees. At BrainReactions, we have created a program to achieve positive outcomes in this area. During the final three years I worked on my …
There is an online brainstorm live that anyone can contribute to. The purpose is to innovate leadership programs. Please visit www.brainreactions.net/brainstorms/1917 to contribute your ideas for what the high quality leadership program of the future could be like or feature. So far there are over 30 ideas on the brainstorm from 6 different individuals. This …
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This Grounded Theory of High Quality Leadership Programs dissertation is now available for purchase for $29. You can buy directly through the above paypal button and the 316 page dissertation pdf will be emailed to you. This pdf would be helpful to leadership learners, program developers, teachers, and researchers.
I defended my dissertation on July 17th, 2007! A BIG thank you goes out to all of the leadership educators who contributed to this study in a number of meaningful ways. Here is the dissertation abstract.A GROUNDED THEORY OF HIGH QUALITY LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS:PERSPECTIVES FROM STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Darin J. Eich At …
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