Sponsored by Faculty Affairs and instructed by Dr. Stefan Niewiesk
The Academic Leadership Framework, developed by Ohio State's Stefan Niewiesk and Gates Garrity-Rokous, is adapted for faculty, and Academic Leadership Series participants benefit from six one-hour training sessions aligned with the six domains of the framework explaining pertinent skills, knowledge and concepts. The training:
- is directed towards daily application and does not require administrative experience;
- provides foundational leadership knowledge for faculty in their role as informal leader/effective follower to improve their career management and interactions with administrators and colleagues;
- and participants view a 30-minute introductory video and read 2-3 pages of leadership information prior to each session.
All 2024-25 sessions are in-person from 4-5 p.m., and will be held at the Veterinary Medicine Academic Building (215 Wenger Lab, 1900 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210)
Sessions outline and dates
Values and behaviors | October 3
Institutional values have to be translated into behaviors, and reverse analysis of behaviors can be used to evaluate issues of organizational climate. Different styles of leadership, management and negotiation are being discussed, the concept or motivation as emotional needs, as well as basic work skills.
People | October 10
Recruitment is explained as balancing recruitment with evaluation using structured recruitment and behavioral interviewing. For development of people, different development models and techniques are being introduced (committees, individual mentoring, peer learning, critical friends).
Decision making | October 17
A formal decision making instrument is introduced, differences between shared and participatory government are explained and guidelines provided for group work and group decisions.
Goal-setting | October 24
Strategic action planning and doing, change and crisis management are discussed.
Organization | October 31
A review of the organizational structure of the university, college and department using simple tools (six-box model, academic unit review) supports the analysis of university organizational structures.
Oversight | November 7
The tools for oversight of performance (productivity and professional behavior) are explained using the cycle of expectations, evaluations and consequences.
Academic Leadership Framework summary
The Academic Leadership Framework is a competency framework based on the general management and academic leadership literature. The proposed framework defines and treats separately the broadly distinguishable “domains” of leadership competence from the individual “competencies” that collectively compose each domain. In other words, a “competency” is an observable ability of an individual related to a specific activity that integrates knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. When integrated, these competencies coalesce into broad distinguishable “domains” of competence. Taken together, these domains of competencies aggregate into a general descriptive framework for academic leadership.
The six domains of competence and their respective subdomains are shown in the figure to the right.
Academic Leadership Framework Domains and Competencies
1. Values and Behaviors
- Institutional Values and Professional Attitude
- Professional/Personal Development
- Work skills
2. People
- Recruitment
- Development
3. Decision making
- Individual Decision Making
- Shared Governance
4. Goal-setting
- Strategy
- Change Management
- Crisis Management
5. Organization
- People
- Resources
6. Oversight
- Assurance of Productivity
- Assurance of Professional Behavior
