Becoming a LEADER IN ADVISING... Whether or not you want to be an administrator! GAIL FAIRFIELD Office of Completion & Student Success

Plan for Today  Generate ideas about excellence in advising leadership  Leading by Using an Inquiry Mindset  Leading by Involvement  Your Next Leadership Experiment! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 1

Consider Excellent Role Models Who are they? Why are they excellent? INDIANA UNIVERSITY 2

Attitudes of Leadership  Know my value... and my values  Appreciate and recognize myself and others  Reveal my strengths  Know my personal boundaries  Own my decisions and actions  Apologize and make amends  KEEP LEARNING Take 30 minutes a week to reflect, learn, & grow! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 3

Leadership through an INQUIRY MINDSET INDIANA UNIVERSITY 4 BE CURIOUS IDENTIFY A GOAL  What do you want someone (self, students, other advisors, faculty) to be able to know/do/understand – and why?  What do you want to know about your student (or group of students) – and why? BRAINSTORM POSSIBILITIES

Leadership through an INQUIRY MINDSET INDIANA UNIVERSITY 5 DEFINE A PROJECT 1.What could be a way to help advisors understand...? 2.What could be a way to educate students about... ? 3.What is some correlated data that will help me support my students more effectively? 4.ETC.

Leadership through an INQUIRY MINDSET INDIANA UNIVERSITY 6 EXPERIMENT Try something, adapt it, try again ASSESS Identify what you will measure and how you will measure it

Leadership through an INQUIRY MINDSET INDIANA UNIVERSITY 7 DOCUMENT Describe the original issue, your goal, your actions, and the results. SHARE Publish it, workshop it, or it – just get it out!

Using an Inquiry Mindset to Develop a Best Practice Notice a need Read, research, ask for input Formulate an idea Try it out Assess, adapt & adjust Summarize ideas and results YOU ARE NOW THE LEADER: SHARE!! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 8

Using an Inquiry Mindset to Become the Expert Find something that interests you Read, research, & talk to people Get or organize specific training so you can learn more Apply what you’ve learned Summarize your ideas and results YOU ARE NOW THE LEADER: OFFER TO BECOME THE GO-TO PERSON! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 9

Using an Inquiry Mindset to Publish your Ideas Find something that interests you about advising or student success Gather ideas: read & talk to people Do your homework about researching & writing Remember what you learned in college Check out the massive NACADA resources: Design a research project, gather data, and analyze results Write it up and share it with your colleagues YOU ARE NOW THE LEADER: SUBMIT FOR PUBLICATION!! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 10

Skills for an Inquiry Mindset  Commitment – to paying attention Listen Observe Notice the way that a “small” issue is part of a bigger “system”  Discernment – to identify the key factor that needs to evolve  Curiosity – to generate several ideas  Drive – to ask/read/search for ideas or practices  Humility – to ask for feedback or editing INDIANA UNIVERSITY 11

Skills for an Inquiry Mindset  Willingness – to experiment  Eagerness – to learn from experiments, especially if your idea doesn’t work (or doesn’t work perfectly)  Perseverance – to keep adapting and fine-tuning  Bated Breath – to see if others can replicate what you’ve done  Resolution – to document what you’ve done And then, there’s EXCEL! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 12

Leading by Being Involved  Volunteer for unit-specific committees  Commit to BAAC committees  Engage in other campus-wide initiatives  Initiate Shadowing exchanges with advisors in other units  Help with new advisor training/orientation – even across campus INDIANA UNIVERSITY 13

Skills for Involvement CURIOSITY  Persuasive Speaking  Active Listening  Self Assurance  Collaboration/Compromise  Innovation  Building on what’s worked before  Flexibility  Timely follow-through And then there’s an understanding of politics! INDIANA UNIVERSITY 14

Part of Gail’s Story Two STRENGTHS Clarifying & Communicating Information Identifying Interpersonal Skills in Advising Some LEARNINGS How to Lead Meetings (agenda, summary, & follow-through) How to REALLY value input of all kinds If people are frustrated Clarify Expectations Refine the System or Process How to access and use data for tracking activities (IUIE, EXCEL!) How do use the collected data for decision-making INDIANA UNIVERSITY 15

What are your STRENGTHS? What do you want to LEARN? What’s Your Next Leadership Experiment? INDIANA UNIVERSITY 16

OCSS BLOG OCSS BLOG INDIANA UNIVERSITY 17

Q&A INDIANA UNIVERSITY 18