SelfLeadership in BusinessTechnical Education

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Self-Leadership in Business/Technical Education

• Judee A. Timm, Ph.D.
• Monterey Peninsula College
• Monterey, CA 93940
• jtimm_at_mpc.edu
• CCCAOE Conference
• March 13, 2008

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Focus
1. What is happening in the world today?
2. What does business need?
3. How have required skill sets changed?
4. How must teaching and learning adapt?
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What Has Changed?
Old Environment
New Environment

• Excellence
• Limitless Competition
• Decentralization
• Anything But
• Educated/Highly Skilled
• Automation, Digitalization, Virtualization

• Mediocrity
• Limited Competition
• Centralized Structures
• Routine
• Unskilled Workers
• Manual Labor

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What Businesses Need
Competitive Edge
Innovative and Entrepreneurial
Creative Vision
Connected
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What Employees Need
Creativity
Communication
Critical Employment Skills and Traits
Accountability
Appreciating Diversity
Leadership
Taking Risks
Continual Learning
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Creativity

• Form ideas
• Develop new perspectives
• Envision new designs
• Identify opportunity
• Appreciate the unexpected

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Leadership

• Everyone needs to lead!
• Select the right people
• Communicate
• Persuade
• Negotiate
• Be accountable

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• Taking Risks
• Strive for excellence
• Take a chance
• Learn from your mistakes
• Accept challenges

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Appreciating Diversity Culture Lifestyles
Disciplines Politics Gender Generations
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Accountability and Initiative

• Follow Through
• Maintain Ethics
• Uphold Values

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Continual Learning

• Self acquisition of
• Information
• Skills
• Competencies

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Employment Philosophy --Competence

• We must build A players. Employers seek to
  focus on working more closely with A players
  and growing B playersthey must know how to
  evaluate their people, build the ones who matter,
  and say good-bye to those who dont belong in the
  organization (Herman Group, 2002).
• Marginal performers will have marginal employment
  opportunities in the new economy.

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Self-Leadership
The capability of people to lead themselves may
be the greatest remaining untapped natural
resource in the world today.
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Teachers Need to Be SuperLeaders!
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Teaching

• ART
• SCIENCE

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The LecturePour it in Method

• Information passes from the notes of the teacher
  to the notes of the student without passing
  through the mind of either one!!
• Instead have students
• Explain
• Summarize
• Integrate

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Teaching -- Engaging Students to Learn

• The challenge of college teaching is not
  covering the material for students its
  uncovering the material with students.
• Smith, Sheppard, Johnson, Johnson
• Pedagogies of Engagement
• January, 2005

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Changing Role of a Teacher

• Less - Imparter of Knowledge
• More
• Designer and Facilitator of Learning

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Learning Strategies

• Be a role model for change
• Commit to collaboration
• Give every student an opportunity to lead
• Encourage learning from mistakes
• Let go of control
• Embrace diversity
• Encourage self-learning
• Create joy!

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Use Technology, Increase Productivity and
Learning!

• Online Lectures
• Video Cases
• Internet team research activities

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Appreciate Differences

• Experience discomfort
• Identify stereotypes and assumptions
• Analyze the implications

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Ethics and Values

• Work in teams
• Experience the thinking process
• Form workable solutions

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Create Enjoyment

• Laugh and laugh a lot!
• Encourage out-of-the-box thinking!
• Create comfort in the uncomfortable.
• Raise the bar.
• Try new things and shake things up.
• The only time failure counts is the last time
  when you stop trying! (Unknown author)

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Questions
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