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Leadership Books for College Students, Courses, and Programs in Higher Education

2 Comments / Leadership development programs, Theory / By Darin Eich

Books for Leadership Development Programs Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs is designed to help you develop a high quality leadership program or course for college students. It shares a number of different program types and activities that have positively impacted student learning and leadership development. It is a source …

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How to Reflect to Improve and Learn from Life Experiences

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Experiential Learning: Reflect & Make Meaning of your Experiences to Grow Make meaning with the power of reflection. Get better at what you do and how you do it through experiential or active learning. There is so much we can learn about ourselves through our past, and namely, through our specific, unique life experiences. Many …

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Identifying Key Tools and Resources for Personal and Professional Development

It is really difficult to do things on our own. It is even more difficult to do things on our own without any tools or resources. If you’ve ever tried to build or repair something, you know that tools can make all the difference. The same goes for our life. Tools and resources help us …

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Identifying Meaningful Life Experiences that Give You Insight into Who You Are at Your Best

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Creating your path is all about experiences. Experiences help us to understand ourselves and learn. We create our path for the journey ahead by experiencing. We can take a look back at the path we’ve already traveled and see that it is paved by experiences. An important step on the journey to create your path …

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What Doesn’t Work in Student Leadership Education and What You Can Do About It

1 Comment / Education, Leadership development programs, Learning, Research, Theory / By Darin Eich

During my research on high quality leadership programs – interviewing more than sixty stakeholders about what matters most for student learning and leadership development – I rarely (if ever) heard that the following program elements were contributing positively to student learning and leadership development. Here is a list of what I didn’t hear: 1. Lecturing …

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Book Recommendations from UW-MANIAC

2 Comments / Innovation Knowledge, Learning, Research, Theory / By Darin Eich

Here are some recommended books from UW-MANIAC members at the University of Wisconsin. UW-MANIAC (Madison Area Network for Innovation and Collaboration) hosts a variety of innovative and creative events…and attendees are always sharing books about organizations, change, design thinking, innovation, creativity and leadership with each other. Add any other recommended books that you can think …

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Flipping The Leadership Program

Education, Research, Theory / By Darin Eich

Influenced by Khan Academy’s “Flipping the Classroom” model, we are designing, building and facilitating new innovation focused leadership development programs for students at Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center and for faculty & staff at the University of Wisconsin. These new programs are rooted in what has worked well for learning and leadership development: real challenge & project based activities, …

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How to Flip the Classroom: Program for Higher Education

Education, Innovation Knowledge, Leadership development programs, Theory, Training Program, Workshops / By Darin Eich

How to Flip the Classroom: Experiential Group Activities in the Classroom and Video-guided Reflection Outside of the Classroom Have you heard of the “Flipping the Classroom” trend, made popular in education by Khan Academy? Are you interested in learning more about the implications of this innovative program development and teaching model, and how it might …

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Leadership Development Professional Resource: Association of Leadership Educators

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Many leadership development association members have helped me to develop my upcoming book, Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs. I have built a sampler version for leadership educators that myself and some colleagues have been sharing with various groups. This process has led me to identify many of the great …

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3 Simple Strategies From the Pros: How to Title Blog Posts and Articles

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We need titles for many things: ideas, concepts, images, tweets, social media and blog posts, articles, reports, and books. In an earlier blog post I shared some insights from my research on bestselling nonfiction books for how to create better titles. I would like to now zero in on smaller ideas or bite-sized pieces of …

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