Monday, July 21, 2008

LUOMA Leadership Academy - Days 1 & 2 (July 20 & 21, 2008)

Back in Chaska for Week 2 of the LUOMA Leadership Academy. This is a wonderful experience learning more about leadership and myself...looking forward to a great week learning about strengths based leadership and hearing everyone's Action Research Projects.

We started working on our Strengths Finder reports today and sharing our individual results. For the record, my top 5 strengths are:
1) Responsibility
2) Learner
3) Deliberative
4) Achiever
5) Harmony

We have heard these 7 action learning project reports already!!!:
1) NE Higher Education Instructional Learning Project
2) Instructional Cost Management Analysis - Phase Two
3) Recruiting Academic Deans at 2-Year Colleges
4) Understanding Underrepresented Student Retention Initiatives
5) Developing a System-Wide Communication Strategy with Minnesota's 11 Tribal Nations
6) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities New Faculty Orientation
7) Evaluation Study of Optimal K-12 Century College Relationship

See the LUOMA site for the Executive Summaries of these projects!

Networking and learning from others is such a huge part of this program. I am so happy to have met so many wonderful people from around the state in this program. It was a pleasure last night to have Dr. Jim Luoma, former MnSCU trustee for whom the program was named after, be present and to thank him for his years of service and his vision.

We started the Dimensions of Leadership Profile today as well. It is interesting to see how some things in there line up with the Strengths identified via the StrengthsFinder. There are definite themes that resurface in all of these tools, including the DISC that we explored last summer.

Off to network on the golf course :-)