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Melissa Reeder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Constant change exists in today's information technology (IT)-centric world, where IT leaders should strategically select the best approach to managing projects. A hybrid approach combines aspects from two established methodologies (predictive and adaptive) to create a process that can better align with the project's needs. The problem is IT…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Decision Making Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Leaders
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Kutz, Matthew R.; Stiltner, Sara – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2021
Context: Soft skills have been reported to be a necessary aspect of athletic training education and clinical practice. However, almost no empirical research has explored the level of importance of soft skills or the frequency with which they are evaluated within athletic training education. Objective: To delineate the perceived importance of soft…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Athletics, Administrator Attitudes, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Henkel, Tom; Marion, Jim; Bourdeau, Debra – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
In this paper, we examined managers' leadership behavior when working on a simulated team project regarding task-oriented versus relationship-oriented leadership behavior to effectively achieve successful project completion. Managers attending an advanced project management development program responded to the Fielder Leadership Behavior Style…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Administrator Behavior, Program Administration, Job Performance
Robyn Kelton; Irina Tenis – McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2024
Research has established the vital role administrators play in the success and sustainability of high-quality early childhood care and education (ECEC) programs. However, many center-based program administrators assume their leadership roles by being promoted from a teaching position. Consequently, while they may assume their administrative role…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Professional Development, Administrator Education, Career Development
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Baldwin, Leslie – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article presents findings of a larger research project regarding effective leadership practices in language immersion programs. The purpose of this study was to discover actions, knowledge, and skills that immersion leaders of successful programs exhibit. Using a basic qualitative model, immersion leaders, teachers, and parents at three…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Instructional Leadership, Trust (Psychology), Faculty Development
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Cross, Emma; Dobson, Madeleine; Walker, Rebecca; Lowe, Geoff – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
All Australian children and their families have an equal right to access quality early years education. To achieve this, rationalisation of the Australian early childhood (EC) sector in 2007 saw the introduction of mandated governing frameworks, including the National Quality Framework (NQF), designed to regulate and assure quality practices…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Engle, Molly; Maddy, Deborah – Journal of Extension, 2018
Using a stratified random sample and real-time virtual focus group sessions, we evaluated the regional administrative model, addressing personnel supervision, program direction, financial management, and administrative leadership. We concluded that the regional administrative model remains a highly charged topic, there is no common understanding…
Descriptors: Models, Focus Groups, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Fune, Roy P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to uncover Information Technology (IT) Project Managers' and IT Professionals' perceptions of effective leadership styles as they apply to project success. There have been prior studies dealing with the differences in perceptions between IT Functional Manager's leadership self-perception versus staff perceptions of…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Information Technology, Program Administration, Administrator Attitudes
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Marchildon, Gregory P.; Fletcher, Amber J. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2016
The ability to think in terms of a system is critical to achieving common direction, alignment, and commitment in highly distributed health systems. In Canada, provincial and territorial ministries of health provide leadership on the direction of health reform while leadership to align system levels is determined by a far more distributed group of…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Health Services, Leadership Effectiveness, Conflict
Walker, Lisa; Parkinson, Kathleen K.; Tozer, Steve; Webb, Katonja; Whalen, Samuel P. – Online Submission, 2018
In the second of two continuous improvement briefs on selection, UIC Center for Urban Education Leadership researchers and UIC Ed.D. program administrators describe how they build program capacity to assess & measure the characteristics they associate with school leader success. [For Part I, see ED622510.]
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Capacity Building, Urban Education, Instructional Leadership
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2013
As expectations for early childhood education (ECE) increase, there is a corresponding need for effective leadership in classrooms, programs, and the organizations that form the field's infrastructure. A recent study examined how the ECE field is addressing its need for leadership by focusing attention on the leadership development programs…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Nehls, Kimberly – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
Capital campaigns are intense efforts to build the financial assets of an institution in a specified amount of time. This study provides an empirical view of how changes in leadership affected concomitant capital campaigns at ten colleges and universities. The transitions during these 10 campaigns influenced morale on campus, altered timing of the…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Publicity, Leadership, Administrative Change
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Uetake, Tetsuya – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: Large-scale collective action is necessary when managing agricultural natural resources such as biodiversity and water quality. This paper determines the key factors to the success of such action. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper analyses four large-scale collective actions used to manage agri-environmental resources in Canada and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Success, Performance Factors, Natural Resources
Wolverton, Brad – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
A series of unprecedented scandals has eroded confidence in big-time sports, increasing the appetite for change. Some critics have a tough time seeing the NCAA as a savior; they say the real problem is the NCAA structure itself, which allows athletes to generate billions of dollars for colleges while earning no compensation themselves. Mark A.…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Program Administration, Change Agents, Change Strategies
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Halonen, Jane S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Although scholars have scrutinized many aspects of academic life in psychology, the topic of leadership for psychology programs has remained elusive. This article describes the importance of high-quality leadership in the development of thriving psychology programs. The author offers a strategy for evaluating leaders to help provide developmental…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Leadership Effectiveness, Psychology, Benchmarking
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