Leading Different Types of Groups
Resources
- Understanding Generational Shifts: Quick Tips (Reading time: 6 minutes)
- Understanding Generational Shifts: Annotated Bibliography (Reading time: 5 minutes)
- Culture and Diversity – Quick Tips (Reading time: 4 minutes)
- Understanding and Influencing Culture – Executive Briefing (Reading time: 9 minutes)
Culture is a complex social reality that is difficult to change, hard to define, multi-layered, and a major influence of behavior and performance. Leaders must attend to their unit cultures, especially guarding against movement towards toxicity. Cultural intelligence is critical for the leader of an academic unit. - Understanding and Influencing Culture – Quick Tips (Reading time: 4 minutes)
Culture is a complex social reality that is difficult to change, hard to define, multi-layered, and a major influence of behavior and performance. Leaders must attend to their unit cultures, especially guarding against movement towards toxicity. Cultural intelligence is critical for the leader of an academic unit. - Creating & Sustaining a Culture of Excellence – Quick Tips (Reading time: 5 minutes)
Highly ranked units are almost always characterized by a culture that fosters excellence in student mentoring, instruction, research and service to the university and beyond. Such a culture usually doesn’t occur by accident: it is the product of deliberate actions and cultivation of a particular mindset by both administrative and faculty leaders.
Andrew Alleyne on Why Diversity Matters (4:41)
Andrew Alleyne, Director and POETS Professor at the University of Illinois, explains the importance of diversity in organizations.
Andrew Alleyne on Diversity and Productivity (3:57)
Andrew Alleyne, Director and POETS Professor at the University of Illinois, talks about the relation between diversity and productivity.
Andrew Alleyne on Making the Case for Diversity (2:34)
Andrew Alleyne, Director and POETS Professor at the University of Illinois, emphasizes the importance of diversity within organizations.
Robert Jones on Managing for Diversity and Inclusion (7:15)
Robert Jones, the tenth Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about Diversity and Inclusion.
Andrew Alleyne on Managing for Diversity and Inclusion (7:40)
Andrew Alleyne, Director and POETS Professor at the University of Illinois, talks about how to manage for diversity and inclusion
Andrew Alleyne on Creating a Shared Vision of Excellence (4:50)
Andrew Alleyne, Director and POETS Professor at the University of Illinois, discusses how leaders can create a shared vision.
Michael Loui on Creating a Shared Vision of Excellence (3:30)
Michael Loui, Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor at Purdue University, talks about how to create a shared vision of excellence in a department.
Joan Dubinsky on Organizational Culture (4:47)
Joan Dubinsky, University of Illinois NCPRE Business Ethicist and Consultant, describes organizational culture.