Leadership and Distance Education in Higher Education: A US perspective Sonja A. Irlbeck University of Minnesota Abstract The premise of this article is that while in the US understanding is growing about the technologies and strategies needed for effective distance education in an online environment, leadership efforts remain weak. The article describes leadership for distance education, historical perspectives of leading distance education, and how the Internet has directly changed distance
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Nurse Leader Interview Ariel Echevarria NUR/587 November 23, 2015 Professor Carla Hronek Leadership Interview Leadership can take on many forms and shapes. Each leadership style is unique and has a great impact on its team. Leadership is not about position, but more so about how a leader influences others to create a difference or change. The style of leadership that a leader portrays is often not chosen; it is more of a developed set of traits that come from the beliefs and values displayed
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requirements for the completion of LEAD 510 Biblical Foundations of Christian Leadership by Rooshawn Pratt April 1, 2016 ABSTRACT Reviewing Leadership: A Christian Evaluation of Current Approaches, is a book that takes an observation of leadership in its current state and it looks to improve leadership for the future. The authors Robert Banks and Bernice Ledbetter, take a look at all areas of leadership, use their experiences in the work place, weave in faith to create a beautiful evaluation
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Evaluating Issues and Insights on Leadership Rapid and significant changes in the world today have greatly impacted organisational development in many ways. The accelerating pace of evolution, especially in the field of technology, creates fundamental shifts and gaps in business operations. To address this pressing issue, organisations have to move forward in tandem with the pace of change in globalisation. Organisations go through various cycles in its quest for development. Hence, organisational
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Leadership and the use of Power to Achieve Social Change Daniel William Chappell Dallas Baptist University Leadership and the Use of Power to Achieve Social Change Introduction The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. Anyone watching a television on this important evening knew that everything had changed. Barak Hussein Obama had just been elected the 45th President of the United States of America, and he represented the first African American to ever win this office. To
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Leading Change: The Leader’s Role By Ms. Sumedha Dutta The world of human resource management is in constant flux. Competition, consumer choice, diversified product choice, improved technology, unrestricted trade territories etc., have contributed significantly to the necessity of bringing about change in the organization and embracing it as an ongoing process. Globalization and liberalization have further fueled the necessity for change. Orientation to change within organization starts from the
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Leadership in Educational Institutions Leadership responsibilities for heads of educational institutions play a key role in addressing the problems that face these institutions. The learning process in most high schools fails to deliver the expected results due to poor leadership. Today, many educational institutions seek to implement the evaluation process for public school principals based not only on leadership skills, but responsibilities, accountability, and professionalism (Szczesiul
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Leadership Journal Report LDR6100 Instructor: Dr.Richard O’bryant Yaoyue Tang Yaoyue Tang Leadership Journal Report Introduction The first reason that I choice this class is because my major is project management, therefor develop my leadership skill is necessary needed for my future career. As a project manager, one could not only manage a project but also will leading a project team which include certain team members from different backgrounds. After six week classes, my leadership
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Identification and of leadership styles | Identification and analysis of the each nurse’s leadership style is complete and considers both employee and environmental contingencies. Great use of examples to support your analysis. | Identification and analysis of each nurse’s leadership style is relatively complete, but missing some key elements as it relates to key leadership characteristics. | The analysis is weak, if not incomplete, missing critical elements of the leadership characteristics. Little
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