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Is academic leadership really a leadership role that influences the campus?
How are you spending your time as an academic leader?
Traditionally, academic leadership is an administrative role that keeps the institution function, but what are fruitful ways to enact your leadership influence as an academic leader?
What is your impact and legacy that you will be leaving behind on the program? (Leaders will ask themselves this question)
Academic leadership is building a team around yourself to create an impact that will create your legacy on campus.
Building your team or creating a community to help catapult your impact is the goal. Leadership is understanding that you do not need to create an impact on your own. It is an act of creating a team that supports your mission.
Your zone of genius is that special thing or skill that you bring to the world. If there is something that you are not good at, your zone of incompetence, traditionally it is assumed that this skill is the missing link to your success, and it needs to be learned.
However, to be an effective leader it is understood that you need to double down on the skills that you're good at, spend more time in your zone of genius. The more time and energy you spend in the zone the more effective and impactful your leadership work will be.
Stop doing things in your zone of incompetence, instead surround yourself with those with those skills you are lacking to help support your mission. Leadership is figuring these things out to build a vision and carry it out.
By finding (or hiring) and surrounding yourself with a team that have the strong characteristics of your zone of incompetence, imagine how much more time you could spend influence your students when you get out of the weeds of your personal incompetence and busybody administrative tasks?
How do you use your time more effectively to create impactfulness which will result in your legacy, instead of just a career.
Disclaimer *This does take years to formulate.
Shelby 7/2024
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