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Monday 09/21/2009
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Special Events :: Community Event
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A Leadership Workshop with Dr. Sharon Parks
9:00 AM Holiday Inn
Description:
On Friday, October 9, Dr. Sharon Parks will lead a workshop entitled “Embracing Uncertainty – Claiming a New Strength: The Art & Practice of Adaptive Leadership” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Bozeman. The workshop explores the question, “In a time of accelerated change when our most vexing challenges resist routine responses, what is now asked of us and how do we respond?” As we lean into the future, Dr. Parks’ presentation is designed to inform, challenge, and inspire a sense of calling, purpose, and commitment. This workshop is cooperatively organized by Hopa Mountain, MSU Leadership Institute, ASMSU, MSU Local Government Center, MSU Office for Community Involvement, MSU Office of the Pro vost, and Greater Gallatin United Way.
This interactive workshop will enable participants to learn adaptive leadership skills, how to understand and make progress on the tough issues in a community, and how to use both formal and informal authority. Collectively, participants will discuss how do we move ahead and make progress in an uncertain world? How do we creatively and effectively adapt to stressful, changing conditions? What does leadership mean if we shift our focus away from the seductions of authority, fixing, power, and personality? How do we respond to the enduring call for economic justice and environmental sustainability? What kind of educational leadership will create the political will to serve the common good? This workshop will provide ways of thinking and acting in response to these kinds of questions—confirming and challenging best practices.
Dr. Sharon Daloz Parks is a researcher, author, and teacher. She is a senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute, and formerly she served for sixteen years in faculty and research positions at Harvard University in the schools of Divinity, Business, and the Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World, and Big Questions, Worthy Dreams. She is co-author of Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World.
Parks is described as “a keen observer, a probing listener, a rich and subtle theorist, and a resourceful teacher. Parks’ bold approach to leadership building enables emerging leaders to work actively through the complex demands of today's workplace and build their skills as they discover theory in practice. Challenging conventional teaching techniques, Sharon Parks, following in the method of Harvard virtuoso Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues, has outlined a new approach toward leadership in her book Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World. Unlike traditional teaching approaches that analyze the experiences of past leaders, case in point uses individuals' own experiences as a crucible for learning, rather than through third-hand readings.
Parks' view of leadership explains that leaders are formed gradually, over time and through deliberate effort - not merely born with special traits. Parks also stresses that true leadership involves helping teams of individuals deal with adaptive challenges and that "presence" rests less on innate personality than upon a style of interacting with others in an organization.
The cost of the workshop is $25, which includes lunch and workshop materials. For more information or to register, please visit www.hopamountain.org or call Hopa Mountain at 586-2455.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Holiday Inn
Address: Bozeman
Phone: N/A
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