Engaged Partnering: Join the New OSU Extension Leadership Network
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2018-04
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
Would you like to be better connected with colleagues across campus and across Ohio who are working on leadership programming? Join educators, researchers, staff, faculty and others in this new "Leadership Network" that offers a virtual means of meeting, exploring and sharing ideas for leadership initiatives via working groups that will ultimately benefit our outreach and engagement leadership work across the university and the state.
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Would you like to be better connected with colleagues across campus and across Ohio who are working on leadership programming? Earlier this year, we launched a new participatory knowledge network of innovative people, programs, and resources focused on developing high quality leadership in the individuals, organizations, and communities we serve. This "Leadership Network" offers a virtual means of meeting, exploring and sharing ideas for leadership initiatives and working groups that will ultimately benefit our outreach and engagement work across the university and the state. Many of us are working on leadership. We share a common interest in developing, supporting and sustaining individual, organizational, and community leadership programming. But doing so requires multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder engagement. Information about best practices, models, successes, and results from pilot projects are needed. The main goal of this new network is to provide resources, collaboration opportunities and collegial interaction to build or improve leadership programs. Participants in this poster session will learn how to log in and participate in this online community. Our nascent eXtension leadership network presently consists of five thematic working groups focused on: 1) Intersections of leadership theory and practice: are we teaching deeper theory to underpin our practical programming? Can we engage at a deeper level? 2) Leadership program delivery: new approaches? online? audiences? groups? 3) Internal leadership development: professional development for OSU Extension educators (250+ across Ohio), as well as on-campus faculty and staff in partnership with the OSU Leadership Center; foundations of practice components. 4) Cultural competencies/diversity: How might leadership programming intersect here? And 5) Evaluation and follow-up: How do we know we engaged clients at higher learning/cognition levels (Fink/Bloom/etc). The audience is educators, researchers, staff, faculty, and others interested in sharing dialogue, research, teaching, ideas, and energy around the broad topic of leadership. Brian Raison has served Ohio State's Department of Extension for more than 20 years. He works as an assistant professor and field specialist in leadership development. He has done extensive research and teaching in local food systems, strategic planning and capacity building. He holds a bachelor's in business, a master's in sociology, and a Ph.D. in agricultural and Extension education. He also volunteers with faith-based service organizations across the United States and overseas.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Brian Raison, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Extension, raison.1@osu.edu (Corresponding Author).
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Brian Raison, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Extension, raison.1@osu.edu (Corresponding Author).
Keywords
leadership, network, Extension, community outreach
Citation
Engaged Scholars, v. 6 (2018).