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Learning, Practicing, and Honing Our Leadership to Shape Our Work and Our Field

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Presented at 10:30am in Cotton Creek I on Monday, November 12, 2018.

#17208

Speaker(s)

  • Scott Marshall, Associate Director for Instructional Technology and Accessibility, University of Minnesota

Session Details

  • Length of Session: 5-6-hr
  • Format: Lab
  • Expertise Level: All Levels
  • Type of session: Pre-conference

Summary

Leaders are made, not born. The future of our field is worthy of our best efforts to practice our leadership. We can shape our field in powerful ways: Do we see problems or possibilities? Want compliance or commitment? Rely on leadership or citizenship? We seek answers by first looking inward at ourselves, then outward toward our communities.

Abstract

Compliance isn't our destination. It is one important point on our path to accessibility but stopping at compliance falls short of what's really necessary to create sustainable accessibility: Commitment. To what extent does our leadership reflect commitment as our goal? We’ll first shine a light inward to explore who we are, our default behaviors, and the gifts we share and withhold. Then we’ll turn outward to our organizational communities and what it means to practice leadership by sharing our gifts. With these reflections in mind, how can we shift the mindset on our campuses from problem to possibility? Do we place responsibility for progress on leaders and experts, or on citizens? How can we encourage fellow citizens to choose accountability for the well-being of the whole? How we understand ourselves and our leadership has a profound impact on the viability of our work. We’ll explore our leadership through these questions and define ways each of us can lead, or lead differently.

Keypoints

  1. Understanding ourselves is a critical first step toward effective leadership.
  2. Ubuntu.
  3. We need to encourage fellow citizens to choose accountability for the well-being of the whole.

Disability Areas

All Areas

Topic Areas

Administrative/Campus Policy, Other, Uncategorized

Speaker Bio(s)

Scott Marshall

Dad, husband, disc-thrower, reader, woodworker: Scott is practicing using his privilege and gifts to make higher ed digitalia more accessible to more people.

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