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National

Leadership

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2015 Proceedings

July 20 -22, 2015

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#NLS_2015 in Tweets Check'out'some'of'the'snippets'of'learning'and'quotes'

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A word from our scholars'Weren’t'able'to'make'it'to'the'2015'Symposium?'We’ve'

got'you'covered'with'summaries'and'takeaways'from'

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Grounded in What? Re-examining Foundational Leadership

The National Leadership Symposium (NLS) is an annual professional development opportunity coordinated by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs (NCLP). The symposium is an immersive educational experience for college student leadership educators. The 2015 NLS took place at The University of Louisville and was co-chaired by Corey Seemiller (NCLP) and Chris Gill (NACA). The focus of the symposium was Grounded in What? Re-examining Foundational Leadership Theory: Implications for the Field of Leadership Studies and Student Leadership Development. This year’s symposium was meant to help attendees critically explore the theories and models that guide curricular and co-curricular leadership education. Scholars Barbara Kellerman, Peter Northouse, Richard Cuoto and Thomas Cronin were in attendance to help educators deepen their understanding of leadership theory. The 2015 symposium was unique in the focus on storytelling as a method for educators to formulate a narrative about their own leadership journey. Over the course of the symposium, each scholar and attendee was charged to reflect and write their leadership story. At the conclusion of the week, attendees shared their story within small groups. Next year’s symposium will celebrate 20 years of the Social Change Model and be co-chaired by Chris Gill (NACA) Paige Haber-Curran (NCLP).

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DR.'BARBARA'KELLERMAN,'HARVARD'UNIVERSITY''

#NLS_2015'AND'TWITTER'

Using the #NLS_2015 hashtag,

we asked our attendees to

tweet bits of wisdom from our

scholars. Check out some

tweets about Barbara

Kellerman and Dick Couto’s

sessions here.

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A Word from our #NLS_2015 Scholars

Highlights from the Scholar sessions

Barbara Kellerman’s Top Leadership Lessons at #NLS_2015:

• “If you want to learn to lead, you’re in the wrong room. I don’t know how to teach people to lead.”

• Our society has a fixation on developing leaders, but leadership is not just about the positional leader and what the leader does.

• Leadership in the 21st century is marked by: challenges to people in positions of authority, a sense of entitlement that the public has the right to know everything, changes in technology, and changes in authority.

• Context matters! We cannot just talk about the people in authority. The time, place, and historical context of our lives impact leadership.

• Give students a more sophisticated understanding of how the world really works—not just how leaders think it works.

Dick Couto’s Top Leadership Lessons at #NLS_2015:

• We must revisit common definitions of leadership and explore the

possibility of making a new definition without positional authority, followers, and causation.

• When someone uses the term “leadership,” they are invoking a definition from the past or sharing their lived experience. Our inherited models of leadership include: heroes, authority, leaders, and managers, and a reciprocal relationship between leaders and followers.

• The elements of leadership we can agree on: 1) Leadership is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for change, 2) Collaboration, 3) Conflict.

• Do we need or want a general theory of leadership? A general theory could be confining, we must offer limits of leadership

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DR.'PETER'NORTHOUSE,'WESTERN'MICHIGAN'UNIVERSITY'

DR.'THOMAS'CRONIN,'COLORADO'COLLEGE''

''#NLS_2015'AND'TWITTER'

TWEETS'FROM'PETER'NORTHOUSE'AND'

TOM'CRONIN’S'DISCUSSIONS'AT'NLS'

Peter Northouse’s Top Leadership Lessons at #NLS_2015:

· People have an intense need for leadership. Today, Americans want strong, brave, charismatic leaders. At the same time, people are now challenging leaders’ authority more than ever, which may be true because of the increased power of followers. · In higher education, leadership continues to be taught in a wide variety of disciplines. Much of leadership education today focuses on competencies and personal growth. There has been an exponential rise in research on leadership concepts and variables. · Effective leaders have the optimal blend of task and process leadership (task-oriented is goal-focused and process-oriented is focused on relationships). · Theories have an important role in informing our practice.

Tom Cronin’s Top Leadership Lessons at #NLS_2015:

Key Leadership Realities:

• “Leadership is very much about storytelling. Being a storyteller helps one to be a leader. “We tell stories in order to explain ourselves; oftentimes we need to talk about things in stories to bring out the truth.

• Changing and enriching the organizational culture is key. • Leaders define, defend, promote, and manage the dream. • Mistakes happen. Embrace them and learn from them. • Be allergic to unnecessary hierarchy, bureaucracy and

“dilbertism”. Flatten the pyramid whenever possible. • Hiring and firing are key. • Effective organizations have a lot of fun. Invent jobs that are

opportunities, not obligations. Be an organization that is willing to take initiative and extra time, all of us want to be involved in magical orgs and bring meaning to it.

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This'year,'we'asked'our'attendees'to'write'

one'kernel'of'wisdom'that'they'learned'from'

attending'NLS'2015.'Check'out'some'of'the'

highlights'here.'

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PHOTOS'FROM'THE'SYMPOSIUM'

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Mingling amongst the attendees No'leadership'educator'is'exempt'from'icebreakers!'NLS'

attendees'spent'some'time'getting'to'know'one'

another,'where'they'are'from,'and'what'brought'them'

to'the'Symposium.'

Fireside chats with our scholars After'all'of'the'scholar'sessions,'NLS'attendees'had'the'

opportunity'to'interact'with'each'scholar'in'a'smaller'

setting'to'continue'the'conversations'spurred'during'

their'sessions.'In'this'photo,'some'attendees'are'

chatting'with'Dr.'Peter'Northouse.''

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Working groups NLS'attendees'were'placed'into'groups'with'other'

attendees'at'similar'points'in'their'career.'Here'is'a'

photo'from'one'group'working'during'a'scholar'session.

LEADERSHIP'IS'MORE'ART'THAN'

SCIENCE.'IT'IS'A'PROCESS'OF'

CREATING'CHANGE,'BUT'THAT'

PROCESS'IS'COMPLEX.'

LEADERSHIP'AND'LEARNING'

ARE'INEXTRICABLY''

CONNECTED.'

LEADERSHIP'IS'A'YOUNG'

AND'EVOLVING'DISCIPLINE.'

RESPECT'AND'LEARN'ITS'

HISTORY,'APPRECIATE'THE'

THEORIES;'BUT'DON’T'

HESITATE'TO'WRITE'YOUR'

OWN'NARRATIVE'AND'

PUSH'FORWARD'THE'

FUTURE'OF'THIS'WORK.'

HOW'CAN'I'MAKE'SURE'

THAT'CONTEXT'IS'A'PART'

OF'EVERY'LEADERSHIP'

CLASS'I'TEACH?'

YOU'HAVE'TO'EXAMINE'MORE'

THAN'JUST'THE'LEADER,'YOU'

MUST'EXAMINE'THE'FULL'

CONTEXT'THAT'SURROUNDS'

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LEADERSHIP'AND'

LEADERSHIP'EDUCATION'

LOOK'AND'FEEL'DIFFERENT'

TO'EVERYONE.'DO'YOUR'

BEST,'LEARN'AS'MUCH'AS'

YOU'CAN'AND'YOU'WILL'BE'

AMAZING.'

Preparing for NLS 2016'

#NLS_2015 in Quotes '

As the field of leadership education has grown and developed over the past 20 years, so too has our knowledge and understanding of the leadership education practices and environments that facilitate students’ leadership learning and development. From the introduction of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development in 1996, to the Kellogg Report Leadership in the Making in 2001, to research from the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership (MSL) from 2006 to today, and with many other contributions in between, the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research base on college student leadership education has substantially grown. We know much more today than ever before on college student leadership development, and it is our responsibility as leadership educators to use this great insight to guide contemporary practice in leadership education. The 2016 National Leadership Symposium will capitalize on this knowledge and focus on how leadership educators can incorporate intentional and evidence-practice in leadership curriculum and co-curriculum [or in their leadership programs and courses]. A key finding from the MSL is that “it isn’t what we do, but how we do it that ultimately makes a difference” in leadership education (Dugan, Kodama, Correia, & Associates, 2013, p. 6). Building off of this, the Symposium will focus on intentional and evidence-based pedagogies, practices, and considerations that can maximize student leadership learning and development.

A word from Paige Haber-Curan about what to expect next year at NLS 2016:

“Intentional and Evidence-Based Practice in Leadership Education:

Celebrating 20 Years of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development”