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The Moose as Metaphor
Dr. Tracy EdwardsPresident and CEOLethbridge
Community CollegePresentation available at
www.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca/presentation
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Todays Plan
  • Overview of my first year
  • Thoughts about whats working
  • Your questions and comments

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Welcome to Lethbridge!
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Were located in Southern Alberta
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Canada
Alberta
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Albertas College and Institute System
  • 17 Institutions on
  • 168 Campuses and Learning Centres in
  • 106 Communities

Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical
Institutes
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LCC is Canadas first public community college,
established in 1957
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7000 Students4200 FLEs
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20 of our students are Aboriginal
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Some of our facilities are new and some are
aging, like most colleges today
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Staff complement of 411 FT, 104 PT and 782
casual Operating expenses of 52.2 million in
2005
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Environmental Context. . .
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From Outside
  • Competitive market in Higher Ed
  • Shortage of skilled labour
  • Aging demographics
  • Hot economy/declining student population
  • Generational differences expectations
  • Funding challenges (for us and our learners)

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Fast Alberta Facts
  • 25,000 new jobs were created in February
  • Wages have risen by 6.1 in the last twelve
    months
  • Unemployment rate is 3.1--a record low for the
    province (6.2 nationally)

2.6 in Southern Alberta!!
Source Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey,
03-10-06
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Employment Projections
  • 400,000 new jobs will be created between 2005 and
    2015
  • 300,000 new workers
  • 100,000 shortfall

Source Alberta Human Resources and Employment
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From our Board Ends Statements
  • Promote and cultivate an internal college
    environment that is positive, collaborative and
    sustaining.
  • Be the premier learning college of choice for
    culturally diverse learners locally and
    internationally.
  • Be a world class institution in focused areas of
    learning.

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Presidential changeover in July 2005 . . .
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Changing Leadership Needs
Our feeling is that your leadership, while
perfectly adequate in normal times, is neither
innovative nor visionary enough to shape our
course through the perils of this new millennium
The Chronicle of Higher Education Micha Richter
and Harald Bakken
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A new president gets to know her college. . .
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Understanding the culture . . .
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Levels of Culture
Visible organizational structures (hard to
decipher)
Artifacts
Strategies, goals, philosophies
Espoused Values
Unconscious, taken-for-granted beliefs,
perceptions, thoughts, and feelings (ultimate
source of values and action)
Basic Underlying Assumptions
Schein (1985) Organizational Culture and
Leadership
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The Bottom Line
  • Culture is deep
  • Culture is broad
  • Culture is stable

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Introducing. . . Melvis!
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A tool for developing open communication . . .
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NOT!
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Dr. Es perspective. . .
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Leadership isnt the private reserve of a few
charismatic men and women. Its the process
ordinary people use when theyre bringing the
best from themselves and others.
Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge, 1995.
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Leadership A dynamic relationship based on mutual
influence and common purpose between leaders and
collaborators in which both are moved to higher
levels of moral development as they affect real,
intended change.
Freiberg and Freiberg, NUTS!, 1996.
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New Metaphors for Leaders
  • Gardeners
  • Midwives
  • Stewards
  • Servants
  • Missionaries
  • Facilitators
  • Convenors

Meg Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science, 1999
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New Leadership Labels
Relational
Servant
Collaborative
Connective
Interactive
Interdependent
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My Five Point Leadership ALERT
uthenticity
  • A

istening
  • L

mpathy
  • E

elationships/Respect
rust
  • T

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Tools for Promoting Communication. . .
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Mechanisms
  • Coffee with the President
  • Departmental Meetings
  • PACT
  • Faculty Association
  • Student Association
  • AUPE
  • Strategic planning, and. . .

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TEMPERATURE
Lethbridge Community College
Checking the
at LCC
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Question 6
What advice do you have for your new president?
  • Keep building bridges and fostering relationships
    based on trust and mutual respect at every level.

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No answer, 10
Be a positive role model, 11
Lobby government, 11
Communicate and be accessible, 101
Provide vision and goals, 12
Manage and lead change, 13
Rebuild the team, 49
Question 6 Responses per theme
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The Temperature Check Task Team. . .
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Melvis Multiplies!!
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And yet more Moose!
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Gophers no more?
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Questions/Comments?
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The Moose as Metaphor
Dr. Tracy EdwardsPresident and CEOLethbridge
Community CollegePresentation available at
www.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca/presentation
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