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Strengthening Your Leadership EQ Can Enable the Creation of Inclusive and Effective Learning Organizations
Speakers for the Day:
Mark CJ Davis Jr, Manager of Desktop Systems, Swarthmore College
Gina Siesing, Chief Information Officer & Constance A. Jones Director of Libraries, Bryn Mawr College
7:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am - 9:15am Introductions and Aspirations
Participants will have the chance to voice goals related to the session and the overall topic of bringing emotional intelligence into leadership to cultivate inclusive and effective teams.
9:15am - 10:15am Learning Organization Framework
Review of Senge's generative framework and exploration of the leader's new work as a designer, teacher, and steward in the learning organization.
10:15am - 10:30am Morning Break
10:30am - 11:30am Vulnerability vs. Fragility in Leadership and Teams
Thinking together about Brené Brown's encouragement to embrace vulnerability as a way to enhance leadership and team communication and innovation, and how this form of "vulnerability" relates to the "fragility" that Robin DiAngelo articulates as a common set of defense mechanisms that maintain the status quo and create disconnections between people
11:30am - 12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm - 2:45 pm Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
Identify and assess our abilities in each of the EQ quadrants via team exercises. We will also discuss methods and strategies to help us embrace EQ at all levels and identify the influence it can have on creating a more Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive community.
2:45pm - 3:00pm Wrap-up / Takeaways/Aspirations for Future Sessions
A chance for participants to name particular ideas and tools each person hopes to bring into local work practices.
3:00pm End