Leading from Within: Finding Your Leadership Sweet Spot

Higher ed IT requires better leadership than ever, at all levels of our organizations. Our leadership discourse tends to center on the role of formal leaders such as CIOs and directors, but this profession needs leadership from all levels of IT. Leading from within requires an entirely different paradigm than top-down leadership. As IT leaders, we often lose sight of the fact that leading with formal authority, or even institutional influence, does not translate well to the way our staff need to lead, especially when it comes bringing IT into the future. Today, we can't afford not to involve every IT person in transformative leadership. Bring your own experiences to share in this interactive session and learn together with your colleagues how to provide a schema for leading from within.

OUTCOMES:
Recognize the difference between top-down and bottom-up change leadership * Discover the three bottom-up leadership practices that lead to success * Investigate a simple, repeatable model to explore which change leadership opportunities are most likely to be successful at different levels in the organization