Leadership: Leveraging Change Through Collaboration and Networking Pamela L. Eddy, William & Mary Faculty Change Agents Workshop, June 16, 2016

What being a change agent means at the beginning of the project….

Thinking about leadership Consider—how do we learn about leadership Often—by not liking what our current leaders are doing. Story about Bill and communication

Positional Leaders Position President Vice-President Dean Chair Committee Leaders Power Positional/legitimate Knowledge Boundaries Power one has Use of rules/structure Counter organizations Managing meaning Control of stage of action Issues of Ambiguity

What is a faculty leader? According to Gardner (1995), leaders are “individuals who significantly influence the thoughts, behaviors and/or feelings of others” (p. 6). Faculty fill these roles: committees, department chair, classroom leadership, etc. Expertise and social capital Connections inside the institution Connections outside the institution

Leading Change ala John Kotter

Collaborations and Networks Understanding frame of partner Understanding motivations Your own Others—economic, mandate, values Role of social capital

Reframing Change Structural Human Resources Political Symbolic Barriers to Change Loss of direction, clarity, and stability; confusion, chaos Anxiety, uncertainty; people feel incompetent and needy Disempowerment; conflict between winners and losers Loss of meaning and purpose; clinging to the past Essential Strategies Communicating, realigning, & renegotiating formal patterns and polices Training to develop new skills; participation & involvement; psychological support Developing arenas where issues can be renegotiated and new coalitions formed Creating transition rituals; mourn the past, celebrate the future Bolman & Deal, 2013, p. 378

Partnering for change To do what you want to do for your need statement, you need partners. Who can help you in your work? Champion Team

To Think About….. What are the core values for partners? How do partners help your work? At what level will the partnership occur? Who benefits? What are the long-term expectations? How will you assess this?

Faculty/Administrators Working Together Building on other institutional initiatives Shared language/story Leverage Focus on student success How do we know change is working? How do we tell the story?

“Those administrators” “Those faculty members” Breaking down barriers Communicating issues Making it a team effort—goal of student success

Sharing your Work Council for the Study of Community Colleges—annual conference-April 6-8, 2016. cscconline.org Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/

pamela.eddy@wm.edu