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The Pentagon’S Pivot: How Lead Users Are Transforming Defense Product Development, Adam Jay Harrison

Defense Horizons

The Pentagon is rethinking how it develops military capabilities. Traditional defense acquisition, built on long-term forecasting and rigid requirements, is struggling to keep pace with rapid technological change. Instead, the Department of Defense is beginning to adopt a new approach centered on “lead users”: operators and practitioners who encounter problems early and develop solutions in real time. This shift moves innovation closer to the field. Rather than predicting future needs, the military can adapt faster by learning from those already solving emerging challenges. Lead user-driven development also aligns more closely with commercial innovation cycles, improving speed and relevance. To remain …

Liderazgo: Culturally Grounded Leadership And The National Latina/O Psychological Association, Marie L. Miville, Patricia Arredondo, Andrés J. Consoli, Azara Santiago-Rivera, Edward A. Delgado-Romero, Milton Fuentes, Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Lynda Field, Joseph M. Cervantes

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This article, collaboratively written by the presidents of the National Latina/o Psychological Association (NLPA), presents leadership as conceptualized and practiced in NLPA. We first identify key leadership constructs in the available literature as well as relevant cultural values, describe liderazgo (leadership) through cultural lenses, and articulate the connections to counseling psychology and the social justice underpinnings that have guided NLPA's formation and development. We then present a number of events and decisions to illustrate how we have operationalized these organizing principles in both the daily management and long-term goals of NLPA. We conclude with a discussion of the future paths …

4-H Volunteer Continuing Education Academy, Ken Culp Iii, Leslie R. Bullock

Journal of Extension

The 4-H Volunteer Continuing Education Academy was developed to provide 4-H club leaders a continuing education opportunity, to assist them in developing and enhancing the skills and knowledge necessary for their volunteer role, and to provide a means for 4-H livestock and horse club leaders to recertify. All participants reported satisfaction with the academy and indicated that they would attend again and would recruit other volunteers to participate. The academy can be replicated in many ways and introduced at any level to provide continuing education and volunteer support. This article describes the academy and provides information for those who may …

Leading Collaborative Research With A Person-Centred Academic Culture Project, Brendan G. Mccormack

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

In this presentation we will the key findings of our 18-month collaborative research project that has focused on generating a person-centred academic environment in nursing.

Gerontological Nursing Leadership Academy (Gnla): Leading Advancements In Interprofessional Care For Older Adults, Deborah F. Cleeter Bailey, Karen Reynolds, Deborah Ann D'Avolio, Patricia Ann Kappas-Larson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

As the world's population ages, we must have effective leaders to guide advancements in care delivery and policy for older adults. The GNLA is designed to develop mid-career gerontological nurses as significant leaders. The intense fellowship is built upon three learning domains and a leadership mentoring triad.

From Novice To Competent: Developing An Innovative Nurse Residency To Increase Confidence And Job Satisfaction, Karri Davis, Peg Parniawski, Meredith Wallace Kazer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

An interactive presentation of the Medical Surgical Nurse Residency Program created to meet the needs of new nurses. This presentation will use lecture, videos, and audience participation in simulation to discuss the development, design, and in depth content outline of a successful, cost effective, program.

Rapid Curricular Innovation Using Lean Methodology, Jennifer L. Embree

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this presentation is to describe curricular innovation using the LEAN process. The proliferation of doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs has driven faculty to re-examine the focus of the school of nursing DNP Program. Curriculum gaps were identified and program revision occurred.

Secrets Of The Most Successful Nurse Educators, Suzanne S. Prevost

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Successful nurse educators make a profound impact on their students, their workplaces, their communities, and the profession. The wisdom they impart can prevent complications, save money, and save lives, both today and for years to come. What does it take to become the best of the best in nursing education? Is it the powerful presentations, the clinical expertise, the publications and research funding? Are all of these skills required to be successful as a nurse educator? How do these expectations vary across the global regions of Sigma Theta Tau? What is the role of collaboration, partnerships, and networks?

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Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Sustainable Advancements In Nursing Education, Deborah F. Cleeter Bailey, Jodie C. Gary, Larry Z. Slater, Carolyn Hart, Jackie L. Michael, Barbara J. Patterson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Developing effective and successful leaders in nursing education requires intentionally guided self-awareness and behavioral change. The Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy provides an intense personal and professional development experience designed to foster career success, promote nurse faculty retention, and cultivate high-performing supportive work environments in academe.

Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Sustainable Advancements In Nursing Education - Part 2: Leadership Mentoring, Outcomes & Impact, Deborah F. Cleeter Bailey, Jodie C. Gary, Larry Z. Slater, Carolyn Hart, Jackie L. Michael, Barbara J. Patterson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Developing effective and successful leaders in nursing education requires intentionally guided self-awareness and behavioral change. The Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy provides an intense personal and professional development experience designed to foster career success, promote nurse faculty retention, and cultivate high-performing supportive work environments in academe.

Leading Change: The Power Of Vision And Collaborative-Partnership, Rita K. Adeniran, Sarah Hexem, Elizabeth W. Gonzalez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will discuss how leadership vision and commitment to quality healthcare for vulnerable populations served as a catalyst for change. Leveraging the qualities of visionary leadership, a team of thought leaders collaborated to lead a statewide initiative that enhanced cultural competence services across the state of Pennsylvania.

Utilizing A High Reliability Framework To Build Evidence-Based Practice In A Complex Organization, Kevin P. Browne

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The department of nursing at this comprehensive cancer center underwent executive nursing level structural changes where practice, quality and education were combined under the new office of the Deputy CNO. Using a high reliability framework, the Deputy CNO set out to strengthen the approach to evidence-based practice (EBP).

Interprofessional Collaboration: Nurses And Physicians Continue To View Collaboration Differently, Tanna Thomason, Belinda M. Toole

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Interprofessional collaboration fosters quality and safety clinical outcomes and is a requisite element in our complex healthcare delivery environment. Yet, as noted by The Joint Commission (2009), the relationship between nurses and physicians has been a major determinate of the quality of healthcare. Hierarchical power relationships between nurses and physicians were first described by Stein in 1967. Power dynamics, whether real or perceived, impede teamwork, collegiality, and patient advocacy. Although significant progress has been since Stein’s seminal article, conflict and discord persists leading to errors and increased healthcare costs (Crawford, Omery, & Seago, 2012; Nair, Fitzpatrick, McNulty, Click, & …

Leadership In Information Technology: Leadership Theories, Perspectives And Ethical Dilemmas, Douglas B. Malcolm

The Siegel Institute Journal of Applied Ethics

This paper will describe various leadership theories and how they were formed, current leadership perspectives for information technology (IT) and the impact they can have on an IT workforce due to negative impressions and conditions. It will then relate current ethical issues faced by Information Technology to the key driving forces behind IT today along with detailing the current ethical issues faced by IT Leadership. Finally it will recommend some future research to help IT Leadership navigate the ethical and leadership issues faced today and to prepare for the future issues that will appear as technology advances.

Impressions Of Uses For Visual Thinking Strategies Among Doctorate Of Nursing Practice Leadership Students, Meg Moorman, Desiree Hensel

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a structured art viewing technique that can help students develop aesthetic understanding and critical thinking skills (Housen, 2002). VTS integrates many techniques to build cognition including fact-finding, questioning, speculating, and personal association (Yenawine, 1997). Originally used with children, there is now a growing recognition that VTS holds value in higher education (Moorman, & Hensel, 2016). In the field of Nursing, undergraduate students have reported that VTS helps create a safe learning environment and helps the see things differently. (Moorman, 2015). Other undergraduate students have reported that VTS helped them gain observational, cognitive, interpersonal, and …

The Impact Of Female School Principals’ Leadership Traits On Teacher Morale In California Cbee Star Schools, Moira Zacharakis 8178731

Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine how teachers with female principals at Campaign for Business and Education Excellence (CBEE) Star Schools in Contra Costa County, California (CA) rate their principals’ leadership skills, how they rate their own job satisfaction, and to determine if a relationship exists between the principals’ leadership skills and employee job satisfaction.

Methodology. The study employed a quantitative correlational research design using data from two instruments.

Findings. The sample size for this study was too small to generalize to a larger population; however, statistically significant relationships were found in the data. …

Innovative Leadership In Nursing Education For Maryland Healthcare Systems: Supporting Professional Advancement In Nursing, Tener Goodwin Veenema

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), recently reported that Maryland is one of 16 U.S. states projected to experience a serious shortfall of registered nurses (RNs) by 2025 (HRSA, 2014). This problem is not unique to the US as globally, the nursing shortage is limiting access to health care services and impacting health outcomes across many countries. Innovative education and workplace partnership programs are needed to retain new nursing graduates in times of shortage and funnel them into open ‘high-need" positions at area health care systems while simultaneously providing support and encouragement for the nurse to return …

Regulating Emotions In Response To Power Distance In Meetings, Rebekka Erks, Erin Nyquist, Joseph A. Allen

Psychology Faculty Publications

Purpose – Meetings are a necessary part of work. This research focuses on how power distance in meetings affects emotional labour, including whether leader-member exchange (LMX) serves as a moderator for this relationship. It is hypothesized that power distance in meetings would lead to higher levels of emotional labour in meeting attendees, and that higher levels of LMX would make this relationship even stronger.

Design/methodology/approach - The authors used a panel sample of full-time working adults from a variety of industries who regularly attend meetings. Participants completed a survey with items related to power distance, emotional labour, and LMX. Hypotheses …

Leading Meaningful Change, Lynn D. Akey, Tina Dee, Robert Delprino, Nicholas R. Santilli

Academic Affairs Publications

While strategic planning is often approached from a theoretical perspective, it is in the implementation that the rubber hits the road. The importance of leadership in this shift from a theoretical plan to actual implementation cannot be underestimated. Change agents from a variety of institutional types—community college, public institution, and private institution—will discuss strategies used to inspire and guide others toward the achievement of shared objectives while managing institutional complexities. You will learn about issues leaders must successfully address to implement a meaningful strategic planning process.

Summer 2017: Enhanced Experience Boosts Student Successes, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

Missy Mas ’17 credits St. Norbert College’s Academic Enhancement Program with boosting her confidence and success, allowing her to balance academics with extensive volunteer work and campus leadership.

Not Just A Year Of Social Justice Education: A University-Community Collaboration To Enhance And Support Social Justice, Linda P. Thurston

eJournal of Public Affairs

This article describes an educational initiative originating in a college of education and engaging both the larger university and the community; it examines the role of leadership for social justice through an educational leadership lens and analyzes the role of the university in promoting social justice education across a university-community context. The case study examined in the article, an initiative called “Not Just a Year of Social Justice Education” (NJAY), was a practice in distributed and transformative leadership, community engagement, and informal social justice education. The author explores the theoretical and pedagogical foundations of the initiative and analyzes the case …

Business Leadership And Its Ethics – Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, James Hoopes

European Management Studies

Business Leadership and its Ethics – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Professor James Hoopes, a lecture at the University of Warsaw, organized by the Faculty of Management, Academic Subunit for Organizational Sociology and Business History, October 19 th, 2015

Leveraging Positive Psychological Capital (Psycap) In Crisis: A Multiphase Framework, Ivana Milosevic, A. Erin Bass, Djordje Milosevic

Organization Management Journal

Despite recent advancements in understanding of leadership in context, there is surprisingly little insight into leadership in crisis. To provide insight into how leaders navigate crisis, we utilize historical sources of Sir Winston Churchill’s leadership during World War II to analyze which resources are used by leaders during a crisis and how they leverage these resources to lead through and out of the crisis. We discover that psychological capital (PsyCap) is a core individual resource that leaders leverage in crisis. Our findings suggest that leaders leverage PsyCap in varying ways based on the phase of the crisis. That is, different …

Crisis Leadership And Decision-Making: Hospital Administration And Nurse Leaders' Concerns For Disaster Response, Tener Goodwin Veenema, Katherine Deruggiero, Sarah Lynn Losinski, Daniel Barnett

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize and explore the essential elements of effective hospital and nursing leadership during disasters and MCIs and to identify those events of greatest concern for response. Disaster and mass casualty incidents (MCIs) impose a huge burden on health care leaders. These events create a sudden, unanticipated demand for care referred to as ‘patient surge" that has the potential to quickly overwhelm a hospital"s capacity to function properly. The demand for health care services exceeds capacity to respond and the institution"s normally acceptable patterns of operations and logistics are disrupted. Strong crisis leadership …

Teachers’ Descriptions Of The Impact Of False Accusations By Students And Parents, Elizabeth De Leon

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

This mixed method study utilized grounded theory analysis through the use of survey and interview to research how teachers describe the impact of false accusations by students and parents. The study focused on survey results as well as interviews of a selection of teachers and administrators from various levels, rural, suburban, urban areas and disciplines of education. The concepts that emerged from the data illustrated the impact of false accusations on teachers with regard to their emotional and physical health, teaching practice, relationship with administrator(s), and relationships with students and parents. The data also indicate the need for increased training …

Superintendent Turnover In Guam, Alvin Sanga

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Superintendent turnover has been rampant in the public school district in Guam, an unincorporated United States territory; there have been 18 superintendents since the 1981. This qualitative study aimed to identify and analyze potential factors affecting the superintendency in Guam. Social systems theory proposes a number of factors about the dynamics that define the relationship between an individual and a social system to help us understand the behavior of the individual within an organization. To triangulate the data, this study was comprised of individual interviews with Guam superintendents and content analysis of the Guam Public School Audit of 2009 and …

How Can Human-Centered Design Be Used To Implement A Teacher-Designed, Standards-Based Curriculum?, James P. Magee

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study was to create a framework, based on the principles of HumanCentered Design, to implement and continue the development of a Standards-Based Curriculum that was designed by the teachers using it. While going through iterations, the curriculum will remain true to the principles of Standards-Based Instruction. Much of the research supporting a Standards-Based Curriculum comes from Robert Marzano. One of the main goals of using Human-Centered Design, in addition to the continued design and implementation of a guaranteed and viable curriculum, is to increase Collective-Teacher Efficacy. Elmore and Hattie both cite extensive data suggesting that high …

Impact Of Leadership Styles On Entrepreneurs' Business Success, Hona Amer

STEMPS Theses & Dissertations

Leadership styles play an important role in entrepreneurial businesses in today’s business marketplace. The Full Range Leadership Model provides a framework for transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles, as measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), while the ENTRELEAD scale has been used to assess the entrepreneurial leadership style. A review of the literature reveals limited empirical research focused on the effect of entrepreneurial leadership as applied in the contemporary marketplace. Limited research also exists on the effectiveness of the combination of these leadership styles for entrepreneurs in order to positively affect business performance and business longevity. The problem of …

Factors Contributing To An Elite High School Football Program, Richard Fryklund

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

The research question addressed in this project was, what factors contribute to an elite high school football program. The motivating factor for this capstone was one teacher-coach’s desire to understand what differentiates lasting levels of on-the-field success for high school football programs. This capstone was designed to ask high school football coaches their perspectives and methods in their respective high school football program. Previous studies on the definition of elite, organizational culture and support, coaches, and athletes aided the researcher in obtaining background information of successful organizations in various domains. Five high school football coaches, who met the criteria of …

Overcoming Failure: Characteristics Of Leaders Who Have Successfully Recovered From A Significant Setback, Richard Leo Hunt

Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of leaders who have experienced a setback or failure and have bounced back to success. A qualitative research design employing an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) methodology was used. Semi-structured interviews with open ended questions allowed the respondents to share valuable insights into the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of their individual experiences. The results suggest that after experiencing a setback, a process develops where feelings and thoughts are experienced immediately following the event that is followed by a period of coping and adapting, a transition to a resilient state, and behavioral …