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Leadership Program Reflection

05.06.2025

From Railways to Three Lenses: Embracing Change in Leadership

I faced significant pushback from others when making changes. This confounded me until we studied Van Maanen’s three lenses on organizational change.
04.22.2025

This Is The Work of Leadership

Transitioning from technical work to leadership involves coaching managers and aligning on context, philosophy, and goals.
04.08.2025

Challenge Assumptions to Create Smarter Strategy

Our teams want to innovate and improve our institutions. Our leadership responsibility is focusing on measurable, beneficial outcomes.
03.25.2025

10 Leadership Journey Guiding Principles

As I approach 25 years at Indiana University, I reflect on my values and how I made them uniquely me.
03.04.2025

The Challenge and Opportunity of Embracing Leadership Discomfort

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Ranna Farzan, Associate Director, Technology Strategy and Planning, Harvard University Information Technology and a MOR program participant.  Ranna may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Last month, right around my first MOR workshop, I also started reading Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential as part of a book club with other […]
02.25.2025

Insights on the Importance of Leadership Delegation Skills

One of my biggest opportunities for growth is more effective delegation. Delegation is never one-size-fits-all.
02.18.2025

Becoming More Present

I don’t know about you, but I still reflect on what I learned during my MOR workshops. A theme that was a cornerstone of our MOR experience: Presence.
09.10.2024

From Missed Boats to Big Wins: How I Learned to Show Up

I can’t pinpoint when things started to change. It wasn’t some big, life-altering event but a series of small choices that shifted my perspective.
08.13.2024

Athletics and Leadership

When you are good at a team sport, you might become team captain. After much trial and error, I learned things I want to share.
07.16.2024

The Guitar and Learning New Things

Learning new things, whether fun or professional, comes with stress. Here are some lessons that have helped me navigate new territory.
07.09.2024

The Power of Summer Vacations

Resilience is an essential quality for leadership. What better way to nurture personal well-being than through a summer vacation!
07.02.2024

Leading From Who You Are

As I ponder the essence of leadership, one word resonates deeply: values. The internal compass, the True North, that guides our actions.
01.23.2024

Leadership – The Awakening Seed of Transformation

Let me tell you a story. As a young person and well into my teens, I was severely introverted. I was afraid of my own shadow…until that day.
11.28.2023

10 Years of MOR: What Are You Still Serving?

I have been a MOR graduate for ten years! My cohort created a menu. I started reflecting on what I still serve off that menu ten years later.
11.07.2023

Finding Balance, Sustaining Progress

I am grateful for how my cohort and coaches have helped me to look inward, an honest look at myself and my mindset. It has been transformative.
09.05.2023

Breaking the Busyness Cycle

I tend to say “yes” to everything. There are many reasons. For a long time, this served me well enough, but it all became too much.
07.25.2023

Leadership and Bingo

I volunteer as a bingo caller at my church. During a recent game, my mind meandered to how a good bingo caller is similar to being a good leader.
06.12.2023

Developing Passion and Upskilling

There have been times when my work started to feel stale less engaging. Learning a new skill or tackling a new challenge helped reignite my spark.
07.20.2020

Leaders – Pause and Reflect

[This reading is from Vania McBean, Assistant Director of Information Technology for University Recreation and Wellness at the University of Maryland – College Park.  She is a recent MOR program alum.  Vania may be reached at [email protected].] From time to time, as leaders we have to stop and press the pause button. MOR practice requirements […]
07.20.2020

Can I offer you some feedback?

[This reading is from Dr. Julie A. Traxler, Associate Dean for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.  She is a recent MOR program alum.  Julie may be reached at [email protected].] During our MOR sessions, I could see us collectively cringe, but we began slowly to get more comfortable (or maybe a […]