Profile of a Leader in Higher Education
Position Description
What is your position title and the name of the institution at which you are employed? Shawn Bristle, Campus Dean at Mohave Community College (MCC), Bullhead City Campus.
Where does your position fit within the organizational structure or hierarchy? The hierarchy consists of the president, vice president, two college wide deans that serve the functional areas of student service and instruction and four campus deans that services the operational aspect of each campus. The college wide deans and campus deans have areas overlap.
What is the scope of your leadership duties and responsibilities? One of the unusual things about MCC, I directly supervise only four people, but expected to operate as a manager and leader within a non-direct supervisory matter, which is sometimes a little awkward. Budget authority consists of campus operational budget whereas faculties falls within that scope with signing authority of $5000.
Do you participate in budget meetings for our campus? I do, but how loud my voice is, can be at questioned we engage in a centralized structure, therefore it really is the central folks that make the decisions. However, if real need can be explained it could happen.
How were you selected for the position you currently hold? Even though I was an internal candidate, they did a full nationwide search. I went through a significant process. There were two finalists for the Bullhead
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I have had this role for two years and my portfolio currently includes the design and delivery of an annual Gallup Employee Engagement Survey, an employee crowd sourcing innovation program and building cloud based performance management and social learning infrastructures.
Boys State was a program that, quite frankly, I was discouraged from attending. I heard from multiple people from across the State that, “all you do is march,” and that Boys State is “military school.” I can say with utmost confidence that I will spread the opposite view. Boys State entirely exceeded my expectations in every way, and I cannot thank you enough for granting me such an exceptional opportunity.
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In the changing business environment, leaders of all organisations may face unprecedented uncertainty, especially the technology advancement and changes among the employees. To survive and succeed, leaders should have some necessary attributes. Meanwhile, some changes for leadership skills have to be made to confront the challenges.
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Provide a description of the company that you work for. As part of your description include a discussion of the type of organizational structure.
I am seeking admission to Concordia University-Chicago’s Educational Leadership Doctoral program. Currently I am an Instructional Leader with the Rockford Public School District. I would like to pursue a Doctorate degree in Educational Leadership to further my knowledge of the required leadership traits, essential skills and educational systems, practices and laws so that I may ultimately become a contributing member of a school district’s administrative cabinet.
Create a personal, professional mission statement summarizing philosophy, knowledge and skills of instructional supervision from which to guide future leadership actions.
Masters of Arts in educational leadership is a study field that interested me deciding on the master program to pursue (Green, 2010). The program is essential in academic institutions since it views leadership as a relational process. In other words, it has an all-inclusive attitude towards people and their diverse points of views sharing a common goal and vision among individuals in the institution. The strong interest and desire of pursuing the art program resulted from the interest of understanding the cultural aspects of people that leads to their diversified points of view. Additional interests in educational leadership arose from the increased urge of expounding knowledge on leadership. Furthermore, based on the dynamic nature of the modern society, pursuing the master program aimed at understanding different management styles and required skills for these styles (Green, 2010). The discussion paper has the objective of expounding and reflecting on the different aspects of educational leadership learnt in the MA in educational leadership program.
This paper will profile Jeff Hawkins, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for PalmOne, Inc. examining qualities that Mr. Hawkins exhibits that make him influential leader. The paper will also examine details of the business strategy that make this man an exceptional innovator and his contribution to eBusiness technology.
3. A corporate role within the whole school as a ‘middle manager ' in the administrative structure of the institution.
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