Community Engagement Institute staff selected for Harvard Leadership Development Program
The program is designed to engage leadership development professionals, including consultants, teachers, coaches and trainers from around the world to examine a range of concepts and teaching methods. Throughout the program, participants explored common assumptions about leadership, how dynamics of organizations and systems support or impede leadership development, the difference between authority and leadership, tools to use in developing leadership skills, and the ethics involved in using adaptive, experiential methods of leadership development. Participation in the program also connects McEwen Crane to a cadre of practitioners working in the arena of adaptive leadership around the world.
The Kansas Leadership Center's (KLC) Vice President Julia Fabris McBride said, "Dr. McEwen Crane is a valued member of KLC's Coach Team and teaches in our Leadership Coach Training Program. We encouraged her to seize the Kennedy School opportunity. It is a chance to hone her already impressive set of teaching and coaching skills, while gleaning new ideas and having the chance to practice alongside other world-class leadership developers. McEwen Crane has contributed to KLC's growing reputation and influence in the global community of adaptive leadership practitioners. I know this experience will deepen her impact as a coach and trainer."
"I learned a lot about the power of the holding environment for difficult learning," says McEwen Crane. "There is a lot I don't naturally pay attention to that I now have an eye for. I also learned that your intention means a lot less than the impact your behavior has on a group. The system in which you function is extremely important to understand when it comes to knowing your choice points for exercising leadership effectively."
To learn more about leadership coaching and training opportunities, contact Joyce McEwen Crane at joyce.mcewencrane@wichita.edu or 978-6746. For more information about the Art and Practice of Leadership Development course, go to https://exed.hks.harvard.edu/Programs/apl/overview.aspx