Title: The Moose as Metaphor
1The Moose as Metaphor
Dr. Tracy EdwardsPresident and CEOLethbridge
Community CollegePresentation available at
www.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca/presentation
2Todays Plan
- Overview of my first year
- Thoughts about whats working
- Your questions and comments
3Welcome to Lethbridge!
4Were located in Southern Alberta
5Canada
Alberta
6Albertas College and Institute System
- 17 Institutions on
- 168 Campuses and Learning Centres in
- 106 Communities
Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical
Institutes
7LCC is Canadas first public community college,
established in 1957
87000 Students4200 FLEs
920 of our students are Aboriginal
10Some of our facilities are new and some are
aging, like most colleges today
11Staff complement of 411 FT, 104 PT and 782
casual Operating expenses of 52.2 million in
2005
12Environmental Context. . .
13From 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)
14Fast 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
15Employment 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
16From 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.
17Presidential changeover in July 2005 . . .
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19Changing 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
20A new president gets to know her college. . .
21Understanding the culture . . .
22Levels 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
23The Bottom Line
- Culture is deep
- Culture is broad
- Culture is stable
24Introducing. . . Melvis!
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26A tool for developing open communication . . .
27NOT!
28Dr. Es perspective. . .
29Leadership 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.
30Leadership 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.
31New Metaphors for Leaders
- Gardeners
- Midwives
- Stewards
- Servants
- Missionaries
- Facilitators
- Convenors
Meg Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science, 1999
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33New Leadership Labels
Relational
Servant
Collaborative
Connective
Interactive
Interdependent
34My Five Point Leadership ALERT
uthenticity
istening
mpathy
elationships/Respect
rust
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36Tools for Promoting Communication. . .
37Mechanisms
- Coffee with the President
- Departmental Meetings
- PACT
- Faculty Association
- Student Association
- AUPE
- Strategic planning, and. . .
38TEMPERATURE
Lethbridge Community College
Checking the
at LCC
39Question 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.
40No 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
41The Temperature Check Task Team. . .
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43Melvis Multiplies!!
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49And yet more Moose!
50Gophers no more?
51Questions/Comments?
52The Moose as Metaphor
Dr. Tracy EdwardsPresident and CEOLethbridge
Community CollegePresentation available at
www.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca/presentation