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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Leading Change ala John Kotter

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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?

11. 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?

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

13. Sharing your Work
Council for the Study of Community Colleges—annual conference-April 6-8, cscconline.org
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy