4th Annual Administrative Leadership Program: Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Robert Purcell Community Center
Ithaca, New York
August 7-9, 2002
THE PROGRAM
This conference is designed for administrative academic deans and vice presidents, provosts, and chief academic officers of community college systems.
This year’s conference theme is “Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace.” Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions effectively in us and in others. EI may be more important to success as leaders than the well-known Intelligence Quotient (IQ). More and more leaders are recognizing that effective leaders are those who have the ability to develop and have a high level of self-awareness in relation to those they lead. Leaders need to know “how to” develop this ability. ALP provides “hands-on” experience in developing emotional intelligence and the practical application in the workplace.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Daniel Moriarty, President Emeritus, Portland Community College and Academic Fellow for SCT will be speaking on the Moral Dimension of Leadership. Mr. Moriarty was elected Chair of the American Association of Community Colleges Board of Directors in 1995-96, has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the American Council on Education (ACE), and in 2000, he was named the Chief Executive Officer of the Year and received the Marie Martin Award from the American Association of Community College Trustees. Moriarty also received the Howard Cherry Award for excellence in community college administration from the Oregon Community College Association in 2000.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
Our first presenter is Clint Sidle. He is the Director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Dr. Sidle also works as an independent consultant in strategic change, teambuilding, and leadership development.
Sidle will be introducing the concept of EQ (Emotional Intelligence) and administering the Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) to each participant. Emotional competence is a learned capability based on emotional intelligence that contributes to the effective performance at work. The ECI measures 20 competencies organized into four clusters: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Social Skills. Before the conference, each participant will ask five of his or her peers to complete an online ECI about them, thus allowing for multiple perspectives of feedback. The self-analysis will assist the participant in determining which combinations of competencies he or she can best utilize to be a successful and effective leader.
Sidle will be presenting a session for us later in the conference. This session, entitled “Leadership and the Wisdom of the Four Directions,” shows the parallels between the wisdom of the four directions (used in ancient cultures as a powerful framework for understanding the balance necessary for leadership) and the four Jungian personality types that form the basis for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicators. Each provides a powerful and elegant framework for understanding leadership.
Therese G. Pauly, President of the Pauly Group, Inc., will present practical steps in moving towards higher standards of leadership. The Pauly Group, Inc. is a strong and growing group of academic professionals, spread across the country, who assist community and technical college CEO''s identify, recruit, interview, reference, and hire strong, diversified academic leaders for their schools. Organized in 1992, the Pauly Group provides support for college CEO''s and their search committees pursuing administrative excellence through diversity and gender equity.
Ann Faulkener and Karen Jackson, from the Center for Formation in the Community College (CFCC), will introduce the concepts of formation or “Leading from Within” and provide opportunities in small and large groups to explore the intersection of soul and role.
CFCC is collaboration between Parker Palmer’s Ferzer Institute, the League for Innovation, and the Dallas County Community College District. The center is rooted in the work of Parker Palmer, activist, teacher and writer, who addresses the question “How can I/we learn to live ‘divided no more’?” The goal of CFCC is to foster communities of the heart. The center works with colleges who want to support individual formation for their employees and to affect their culture through institutional formation.
What is formation?
Formation is the process of creating a quiet, focused and disciplined space in which the noise within us and around us can subside and the voice of the inner teacher may be heard—space in which the external and internal powers of deformation are diminished and the grace and truth that are ours may regain their original form.
-Parker J. Palmer
A RESOURCE FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES
The Institute for Community College Development (ICCD) at Cornell University provides world-class, affordable professional development opportunities for current and future community college leaders and is a center for the research and the study of educational, social, and fiscal issues of relevance and concern to community colleges.
The institute was created by collaboration between the State University of New York and Cornell University. Community college presidential leaders and university scholars interested in community colleges have been active in developing the institute’s mission and goals. Their vision is to promote community college development in educational, political, and economic spheres using national and international perspectives.
