2/1/2012 1 Female Leadership in Student Affairs Candace Dennig – Valparaiso University Which part of this presentation are you most excited about? 1. Reflection in Leadership 2. Leading by Example 3. Language of Business 4. Power and Politics 5. Change, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution Poll Question Housekeeping Items #ACPAwomenlead – an opportunity to interact with other participants! At the end of this presentation, there will be a opportunity to evaluate – feedback is welcomed! Thank you in advance for your attendance! The next 30 days… your worksheet.
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Female Leadership in Student Affairs
Candace Dennig – Valparaiso University
Which part of this presentation are you most
excited about?
1. Reflection in Leadership
2. Leading by Example
3. Language of Business
4. Power and Politics
5. Change, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution
Poll Question
Housekeeping Items
#ACPAwomenlead – an opportunity to interact with other participants!
At the end of this presentation, there will be a opportunity to evaluate – feedback is welcomed!
Thank you in advance for your attendance!
The next 30 days… your worksheet.
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Outline of Presentation
I. Introductions & Notes
II. Presentation of five key areas of leadership
III. Top Ten Things
IV. Quotes from Female Interviews
V. Q&A/Discussion
Presenter Information
Mid-level manager at a small private University in the Midwest.
Completed the Women’s Leadership/Executive Leadership Certificate in the fall/spring of 2010.
Met with many women and spoke at gatherings and events to promote program and talk about information presented in it.
Work in Housing, Residential Life and Facilities/Operations, as well as present often and teach undergraduate students.
DISCLAIMER:
I’m not an expert, especially on what you’ll do with your career and your life.
Take what you need, leave what you don’t.
Big topics with big ideas – be prepared!
These are main ideas on larger topics, later discussions will open them up to bigger lessons.
This presentation is not endorsed by Loyola University Chicago.
This is a summation of what I learned in the program – you’ll need to be a member of it to learn more!
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What this is – and isn‟t.
A chance to support ourselves and each other.
A chance to learn about what’s working for women.
A chance to acknowledge common challenges.
A chance to learn how others have overcome these challenges.
A chance to undermine men – or anyone else.
A chance to commiserate about what’s working against women.
It is: It isn’t:
Before we get started…
< keep it up! >
< this is great! >
< couldn’t live
without this! >
< definitely not >
< what are you thinking? >
< don’t even think about it >
Write down 3 of your “do’s”
…
and 3 of your own “do
nots”…
Five Key Areas
1. Reflection in Leadership
2. Leading by Example
3. Language of Business
4. Power and Politics
5. Change, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution
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1. Reflection in Leadership
GOAL: to create a personal action plan that examines
your current circumstances, as well as outline the next step
of your leadership journey through “learned reflection”.
What gets us to examining this for ourselves and then creating the „next step‟ of our journey?
Reflection in Leadership
Starting out easy…
1. Where am I now?
2. Where do I want to be?
3. What do I have to offer?
4. What makes me happy?
5. What do I need to be successful?
6. What are some outside factors to be mindful of ?
Reflection in Leadership
Where we are + experience + opportunity = bright future!
That‟s it… right?
What typically trips us up then?
CHALLENGES
What if you‟re stuck on your challenge?
“the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – Albert Einstein
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Assessing what stops us –
PARTICIPANTS:
write down the top challenge you are facing as of
TODAY!
Reflection in Leadership
Reflection in Leadership
Now analyze what you wrote:
1. Are you looking for the “perfect” job?
2. Are you afraid of making a decision?
3. Are you in a place where you‟ve had to compromise something important?
4. Are you concerned about what others think?
5. Are you opting out?
6. What is your confidence like?
In essence: is it YOU or is it an OUTSIDE FACTOR?
Reflection in Leadership
No matter what the factor is, these will continue to be
complicated the longer you work. Before you get to that point:
Writing your own mission statement
“if we don‟t stand for something, we may fall for
anything.” – MLK Jr.
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Reflection in Leadership
YOUR TASK:
Write down 5 things (values) that you implement into
your work, something that makes your professional
identity.
THEN: for one month, see how you do. Add/Subtract as
necessary.
Next: Step 2
2. Leading by Example
GOAL:
encourage professionals to develop their own model of Leadership based
on discernment. In the work place, we are evaluated and critiqued,
which leads to a situational leadership style that is responsive but
not reflective, encouraging the development of a persona rather
than a person.
Leading by Example
Person Persona
Takes time to implement
change into this.
Can be altered and projected
quickly.
Has a certain set of beliefs,
feelings, values, and so forth
which cannot be altered
unless the person in question
decides to change it.
Has a certain set of beliefs,
feelings, and values based on
what is being asked at the
time.
Makes boundaries based on
self-understanding and self-
knowledge.
Makes boundaries based on
what others want them to be
willing to do and think.
What‟s the Difference?
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Leading by Example
Write down three people you have known in your life
that you would consider leaders. They don‟t have to be
people you‟ve worked with, but you should be familiar
with them.
What characteristics led you to consider them as
leaders?
What did you perceive were their challenges, and
how do you think they overcame them?
Leading by Example
To sum it up:
Others will be able to see if you are exhibiting your
personality or a persona.
Even though it is tempting to build a persona that others
like and accept easily, to be successful is to be yourself,
and building on yourself as a person means you will be
better able to weather hard times and criticism than
someone who has no foundation and changes for others
easily. Next: Step 3
What do you think is the most important skill to
have in your business?
1. Budget
2. Technology
3. Communication (Presentation, Oral and Written Communication)
Language of Business: Poll
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3. Language of Business
GOAL: to teach women how to not only read the important
documents and „ledgers‟ associated with their business, but to
help them also understand how to build and manage them.
Research shows that to achieve professional
greatness you must know two things:
1. You must know about your business
2. You must know about your self
Language of Business
Relational vs. Knowledgeable – typically, we lean
towards one or another, but to be powerful, you
should possess both of these strengths.
Best Advice: expose yourself to many sides of
your business – the financial side, the planning side,
the people side… everything!
Language of Business
• Building one, spending one, allotting one to others, managing and understanding one.
Budget
• How to use it, how to build upon it, keeping up to date on it, making it user-friendly for audience.
Technology
• Representation of your area in oral and written ways. Expressing needs of area in a universally understood way.
Communication
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4. Power and Politics
“Although we weren‟t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it‟s got about 18 million cracks in it.”
Senator Hilary Clinton
GOALS:
1. Understanding what Power and Politics mean.
2. Learning skills toward political aspects of leadership.
3. Learning skills toward your own political mindscape.
4. Developing a personal agenda for successful political management of your career.
Power and Politics
Power
It is the potential ability to influence behavior, to
change the course of events, to overcome
resistance, and to get people to do things they
would not otherwise do (Pfeffer).
Politics
The apportionment of scarce resources. The
scarcest resource of all is power!
Politics are based on power – who has it,
and who doesn‟t.
Power and Politics
Issues for Women in regards to Power and Politics
1. Sexism – and what that means to you personally.
2. Lack of Female Support.
3. Lack of „savvyness‟ to play the game.
4. Fear of criticism as well as fear of offending.
5. Inability to build strong strategic relationships.
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Power and Politics
Big Dilemma: to play or not to play the “game” of politics.
Think of politics in the workplace as a game of chess. You could:
1. Learn to play with strategy and win – not every time, but many times.
2. Play without learning from your mistakes in the past and continue to make the same ones.
3. Don‟t play at all – don‟t worry, someone else will
sit in and play for you.
Power and Politics The issue will become not IF you play, but HOW you play strategically
when it comes to power and politics.
DO: DO NOT: 1. Give information to get information
– appropriately.
1. Broadcast your problems
(personal or professional).
2. „Bank‟ a favor. 2. Break promises.
3. Give in on small non-issues. 3. Push for action with