Tag: Leadership Sketch
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Empathetic Leadership in Post-COVID Times: Navigating Change and Fostering Resilience
But how do we apply empathy in the post-COVID workplace? Remote work has disrupted the personal dynamics we once relied on, making it more challenging to understand the individual needs of employees. As empathetic leaders, it is essential to actively seek connections, master communication tools, and organize engaging virtual gatherings to support flexibility and recognize…
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Mental Health and Classroom Leadership
Addressing mental health in my classroom sets the foundation for a safe and inclusive learning environment where they can grow, empathize, and practice leadership.
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Reflections on Finland’s Prime Minister, Sanna Marin
I swooned over the election of Prime Minister Sanna Marin the same year the library opened. She is an avowed feminist and environmentalist. At 34-years-old, she was among the youngest world leaders ever elected. She is composed and always well-prepared.
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“A Woman Writing Thinks Back Through her Mothers”: Christine de Pizan and Virginia Woolf
Communal qualities of leadership that are often gendered female can lead to innovative acts–powered by planning, goal-setting and forward thinking–and the empowerment of others–created through relationship building and providing opportunities and support.
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Leading Through Disappointment with Agape: On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a model of democratic leadership, Rev. King shows us how to practice agape even in the face of disappointment.
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Cookies and Leadership
I hoped the smell of my coffee would waft through those long halls and bring scientists to my room. To keep them there for more than the time it takes to pour a cup of coffee, I baked cookies. It worked beyond my wildest dreams.
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My “American Democracy”
The biggest lesson that I learned throughout this course is that our democracy relies on all Americans to work to improve our current conditions and recognize that our democracy must be our priority to sustain or it will become at risk.
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My Experience In (and After) the ICDL
“I associated democratic leadership with only two things: antiquity and politics. This all changed, however, following my participation in the 2021 ICDL. Thanks to Kallion, the ICDL, and everyone I met and collaborated with last summer, I was able to see my world and my surroundings in eye-opening and previously unthought of ways.”
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Leadership in Crisis: Using Language to Connect and Advocate
To be an advocate isn’t just to be outspoken. It is to step back and reflect within yourself, to find ways that you can personally offer assistance to a cause.