Time: 12:00-12:40 pm Thursday March 17, 2010
Place: Warf-Pickel 403
Presenter 1: Dr. Eric Glover (ELPA)
Topic: You must listen to be heard: a new leadership
Powerpoint: Glover's PPT
Summary: This presentation advocates a new leadership grounded in constructivist philosophy that moves away from the positivist machine dominated metaphor for organizational development and leadership. It is framed around four practices: Deep Listening, Respecting Others, Suspending Assumptions, and Speaking Individual Truths. It develops the role of an organizational leader (principal, teacher, or any leader for that matter) as an inquirer who co-develops the work the organization needs to accomplish with other organization participants. The leadership practices advocated in this presentation challenge the leader(s), participant(s), and members of the broader organization (school district, community, company), thereby developing a more authentic, moral, ethical, and democratic organization. The theoretical framework presents leadership as movement toward change and management as maintenance of the status quo. It places the leader as a fulcrum point within the organization with the responsibility to balance the opposing elements of this paradox. |
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