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Professor Sharon Bell (LH Martin Institute)
The evidence is that all post-secondary education is facing such significant and dynamic challenges that only the fleet of foot and the change capable will remain competitive. Despite what airport bookstands tell us, good leadership cannot be reduced to leadership by numbers. Nor do good leaders come in the guise of ‘knights (or indeed maidens) on white horses'. Successful organisational change depends on many small steps being taken by everyone in the organisation.
Geoff Scott and colleagues 2006 ALTC funded study of over 500 higher education leaders in Australia, "Learning Leaders in Times of Change" (currently being replicated in the VET sector, amongst public and private providers), clearly indicated that effective leaders of learning and teaching in universities not only possess up-to-date knowledge and skills in their area, they are also self-aware, decisive, committed, able to empathise with, and influence, a wide diversity of people, are cognitively flexible and are particularly deft at diagnosis and formulating strategy.
We also know that good leadership is contagious and those qualities will transfer to the next generation of leadership.
In this presentation, Sharon explores these trends and discusses their implications.
18 June 2010
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