Deliberate Practice

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As a leadership educator, I’m very interested in advancing leadership as a field of study and learning more about it. I believe that at least those who have leadership development in their titles or in their job description should be constantly learning about leadership.

Here are some of the little things I do that are helping me learn more about leadership:

1. Have a feed reader, like Google Reader or Bloglines (If you have no idea of what this means, learn about it).

2. Subscribe to the leadership blogs that are of interest to you. Here is my leadership related list (I’m always looking for more, so please suggest):

http://leadershipasafieldofstudy.blogspot.com/

http://leadershipchallenge.typepad.com/leadership_challenge/

http://pius7.slu.edu/leadership/

http://ccl.typepad.com/ccl_blog/

http://effective.leadershipdevelopment.edu.au/

http://www.thepracticeofleadership.net/

http://whats-needed-in-these-times.blogspot.com/

http://leadershiplearning.org/blog

3. Become a member of an association or sign up to their listserv: ILA, NCLP, Centre for Creative Leadership, Leadership Learning Community, etc. By receiving their newsletters you will know what topics are the most current and you’ll learn about different points of view. You can also contribute with these associations.

4. Subscribe to Jossey’s Bass listserv. You will get the updates of higher education and leadership development books, among other topics.

5. Read the books. Buy the books for your department. (I will add a list of the books that we have at our department in a different post)

6. Write a blog. It may look as a time-consuming task but it helps you reflect and you can share your ideas with others, you are making a difference with your words!

7. Talk about leadership. Help position the concept differently.

Now, what I’d like to do in the short-term:

Advocate for the creation of a knowledge community in Canada, through CACUSS. Connect with those around me. Get together. Know each other.

Publish a paper. Publish an article.

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Please share what is it that you’re doing!